I don& #39;t want to link to it, but there is a piece on a popular reformed Christian website claiming COVID-19 is God& #39;s providence so that a conservative church in a liberal neighborhood gets to deliver food to nieghbors and also Pride is cancelled. 100,000+ deaths for that?

Also, it& #39;s written by a person who also wrote a very successful book on Christian hospitality. Who sums up their understanding of God/pandemics by quoting Calvin (on Hosea) “There is no reason why we should feel safe when God declares himself opposed to and angry with us.”

I think the reason it has me so upset is that the piece starts with an interesting question: "why is our church not good news to our neighbors?"

But the author chooses to answer it by claiming the culture is changing and is obsessed with identity politics.

I think this is what depresses me more than anything. If we can& #39;t truly sit with the question of why the White evangelical American church is not considered to be good news for the majority of our neighbors, we are locked into a terrible space of scarcity and blame-shifting