I think it is courageous and Christ-like for churches to resist the urge to reopen and return to business as usual amid the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. Bishop Sue Haupert-Johnson (North Georgia, United Methodist) has asked her churches not to gather before June 22nd. Her letter is worth reading at: letter 4/27/2020

The Centre Does Not Hold
A hundred years ago, William Butler Yeats wrote an apocalyptic poem with the haunting lines: “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold…The best lack all