Category: Pandemic

• Puritan Perspective Pertaining to Our Present Pandemic

  Puritan Thomas Watson, in his Body of Divinity, gave thought to circumstances that presently pertain to us today in the midst of pandemic. Perhaps most particularly for Americans, who have been blessed with a measure of freedoms rarely matched, and certainly never exceeded, in all of history, the current “stay at home” mandates by a number…

  Dennis Griffith

  April 17, 2020

  Pandemic

  COVID-19, Pandemic, Plague, Quarantine, Social Distancing, Thomas Watson

• Thoughts During a Pandemic

  Scottish Puritan Jeremiah Burroughs mused: All men are afraid of afflictions and troubled at affliction, but where is the man or woman that fears sin and flies from the serpent, and is troubled at sin more than any affliction? It got me thinking. What if I borrowed and re-purposed Burroughs’ question: All are afraid of…

  Dennis Griffith

  April 4, 2020

  Pandemic

• Note to Self During Our Viral Outbreak

  I admire Martin Luther’s attitude in the midst of the bubonic plague: “I shall ask God be merciful to protect us. Then I shall fumigate, help purify the air, administer medicine and take it. I shall avoid places and persons where my presence is not needed in order not to become contaminated and thus perchance…

  Dennis Griffith

  March 25, 2020

  Pandemic