Richard Cunningham explores C.S. Lewis’ sermon, ‘Learning in Wartime’ and what we may learn from it in the midst of a pandemic
I understood just how strange and surreal life had become under the shadow of Covid-19 when, waking from a vivid dream, I found conscious reality stranger than my night visions.
Police deployed to beauty spots to stop citizens from socialising; wild boars roaming in the towns of northern Italy; the civil war in Yemen pausing for the first time in four years due to coronavirus, while in Britain leading churchmen are demanding that the Prime Minister sack his chief advisor (for a claimed breach of lockdown restrictions) or risk losing the churches’ future cooperation.
