Christian, Please Put Your Mask Back On
We could all be doing one small thing to make public worship more accessible. Why, then, have we let it slide?
As the first frightened days of the pandemic fade in memory, COVID-19 fatigue has pushed physical precautions from our collective consciousness. Where Christians ought to be leading the quest for better public health measures to protect us all — as we mark the third anniversary of a virus not yet eradicated — our efforts have too frequently backslidden into convenient apathy.
Fellow believers, I’m begging you to put a mask back on when you come to church.
Why should you listen to me? I’m nobody.
I’m just an ordinary person — a person with asthma, for whom Long COVID could be detrimental, carrying an unborn baby — asking you to do this small thing for me and my children. For those Jesus called “the least of these.” (Matthew 25:40)
Christianity, after all, centers around caring for the nobodies, the insignificant, the ones forgotten and trampled on by the rest of the world.
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