There seem to have been a number of books published last year looking at the Covid-19 pandemic and issues of faith. I sort of expect there will be a whole bunch more as time goes by. At any rate this is the third such book I have read this year.
This book is very aware it is speaking early in the pandemic process. It spends more time talking about how to respond at that point than trying to prescribe how to come out. I appreciate that. Wright has a clear sense that there is much that is not yet known (and more than a year later there is still much that is not yet known).
I do not always follow the same theological lines as Wright does but I always appreciate the way he writes, the way he does theology. He takes a close look at the ways some faith writers have responded to the pandemic and finds them wanting. Instead he invites us to look at our Scriptural witness and ask how it leads us to respond. Much of what he said resonated in my soul as I was reading.
I would love to see a follow up volume as we indeed start to rebuild a "new normal" (I really find that I dislike that overused phrase), something that builds on the last section of the last chapter in this book.
