What on earth is God doing?

Michael Osterholm was director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota during the COVID-19 pandemic. Asked when he thought Covid might become endemic, he said,ย โ€œEvery morning I get up I scrape five inches of crusted mud off my crystal ball. And every day, it seems cloudier and cloudier โ€ฆ Any modeling that looks beyond 30 …

Ethics and prayer (part 1 of 2)

If we are faithful in the way we follow Jesus, then our deepest and truest desires will find their expression in godly, counter-cultural, justice-shaped prayers passionately aligned to the kingdom and mission of God. Our best prayers will be ethical prayers. In this and my next column, I want to explore the relation of ethics …