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How Not to Talk About Pastoral Ministry During a Plague

April 16th, 2020 | 10 min read

By Andrew Arndt

I’m generally not one to complain about tone when assessing a book or article; I don’t love the foray into hopeless subjectivity that such a move (to me, anyhow) usually represents. But there are times when tone matters and you have to throw the penalty flag.

Two recent articles by the Rev. Dr. Ephraim Radner have me poised to do precisely that. The first, written on March 16th for First Things, argues that the so-called time of the virus and the quarantines imposed by state and federal governments in response to the pandemic ought to be regarded as a gift akin to the Old Testament Jubilee.

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Andrew Arndt

Andrew Arndt is the lead pastor at New Life Church East Campus in Colorado Springs, CO and cohost of the Essential Church podcast.