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What the Church can do during a pandemic

By David Hale - posted Wednesday, 1 April 2020


One job that seems to survive during every crisis, professional theologians and everyday people trying to make sense of the suffering. The need to answer why does an all-powerful and all loving God allow suffering to happen. The theologians tried to answer that after the Holocaust, after every devastation, and thus try to answer it now. Why are we going through this pandemic?

We can better answer how places of worship can respond to that suffering. Before we can answer that, however, we need a better plan to address it.

There are many  people in the world that live in poverty. There are many that do not have access to adequate healthcare. The two things that will make them even more vulnerable to a pandemic. So, we need a better plan to address those social ills and urgently.

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This is a call for places of worship to get much better at the secular work.

One faith denomination recently informed each parish that it was in a good financial position to endure what is happening.

What about everybody else? It is not just about saving the local church, but the local hairdresser, café, cinema, gym, and the community itself.

Where is the church’s stimulus plan to help the local community? Faith is not enough, even Joseph had a day job; he was a carpenter.

Places of worship need to do more to help people.

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David Hale is an Anglican University Lay Chaplain, staff worker for the Australian Student Christian Movement and a member of the Anglican Pacifist Fellowship.

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