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Truth, hope, compassion in a time of corona virus and a presidential election
Author(s) -
Childs James M.
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
dialog
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.114
H-Index - 5
eISSN - 1540-6385
pISSN - 0012-2033
DOI - 10.1111/dial.12581
Subject(s) - compassion , presidential election , corona (planetary geology) , presidential system , covid-19 , political science , physics , politics , medicine , law , astrobiology , venus , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty)
Despite signs of public unity in response to the COVID‐19 pandemic, the pandemic has also highlighted our divisions, disparities, and racism. The churches can have a voice for greater harmony and community if their public theology flows from their core beliefs and practices and is marked by engagement with truth, and a vision of hope acted out with compassion.