Life: Scripture, Church Closure, and the Question of Life
This blog offers some biblical reflections on ethics and obligations around the preservation of life. It is not meant to bash anyone who has chosen to either close or keep churches open - Twitter Christians have done that well enough already. I have somehow ended up writing about New Testament, as opposed the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible, which is slightly more outside of my comfort zone, so would welcome any clarifications or corrections. Christianity has a curious relationship with life. 'I have come to give life and life in its fullest', 'I am the way the truth and the life'. Yet if life is our ideal, we love a bit of death on the way. The way the truth and the life, who gives eternal life, only did so through the means of a quite gruesome end. Our tradition attributes martyrdom to almost every early Christian we can name. The valorisation of martyrdom can be matched with the Christian asceticism of the likes of Elizabeth of Hungry whose piety