Hoping you’re all staying healthy out there – the pandemic effect on this blog continues with another bunch of posts. And because a whole bunch of you are in lockdown, there’s more link goodness here than usual. So first…

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The Pandemic…

• Coronalinks 4/10: Second Derivative
• Then and now: visualizing COVID-19’s impact on air traffic
• Cal Newport on Surviving Screens and Social Media in Isolation
• How Runners Stay Fit When They Can’t Race
• The Quarantine Backyard Ultra Is Perfectly Insane
• An Unimaginable Toll

…and the Church’s response

• The Guardian view on closed churches: a necessary sacrifice
• Coronavirus: Nigeria’s mega-churches adjust to empty auditoriums
• The rightwing Christian preachers in deep denial over Covid-19’s danger (sadly us Christians seem to have more than our fair share of idiots).
• The Decade-Old Ministry Book That Envisioned the Pandemic
• Does Corona Mean Communion on Your Owna?
• Supporting Singles in Lockdown
• Throwback: Tom Wright on the Resurrection

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The Week’s Postings

Sunday: Online worship: Palm Sunday
Monday: Sweden and the Coronavirus
Tuesday: The Multiverse & the Maker
Thursday: For Such a Time as This
Friday: The Suffering God

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From the archives

“What do you do when it’s not happening for you? I know what I used to do. Check my methods, redouble my efforts, quietly despair and sometimes complain. All of which suggests that somehow the salvation of people depends on me when I know for a fact I can’t save anyone. Remember, we are doing the stuff.

What I’ve learnt between church plant 1 and church plant 2 is that Jesus promised to build His church (Mt 16:18). We believe that Jesus intends to build His church in Stockholm and has asked us to come and help. So we do what we’re told and we wait.”

– Church Planting Essentials: Patience

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Some interesting things (to me)

Seven posts that caught my eye

1. A new much larger wave of locusts threatens millions in Africa. I’ve written about this story before & mentioned it again in a previous CI. Potentially far more will die from this than COVID-19.
2. Christians Sing Together – I think this is one of the things I miss most about not being able to gather with our church.
3. Sweden’s cashless society dream isn’t all it’s cracked up to be (Something I’ve also written about before: here and here)
4. The Gospel According to Kanye West (From a time when we were interested in other things).
5. 30 countries could be 100% powered by geo-theormal energy. (For when we can focus on the post-COVID world).
6. 9 Things a Grown Man Can Learn From the Hardy Boys – I read them and now my son reads them and I can still learn from them!
7. Hippo found swimming in family’s pool on New Year’s Eve – it’s not new but it’s still funny

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Eye-catching stuff

What even is that? Some amazing pictures from the Winners of the 2019 Ocean Art Underwater Photo Contest

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Seven Twitter highlights

1. Easter means hope
2. Don’t look at your own ugly mug
3. Preaching with translation on a video call – a new one for me!
4. A Complimentary smack down
5. Some dads are better at this quarantine-thing than others…
6. Krakatoa
7. Pontius Pilate

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Something to watch

Have a great weekend.