by UUSurprise | April 29, 2020 | From the Minister's Desk | 0 Comments

As so many have noted, a crisis often brings out the best in us.  I am glad that anything brings out our best.  Many of us, I suspect most of us, want to be good, to do good in the world.  But as the novel coronavirus pandemic has unfolded, I have again been wondering why we seem to need a crisis to be what many of us wish we were all the time. In an article for the Harvard Business Review, Bill Taylor wrote: “During the course of her research, [Rebecca] Solnit analyzed the work of Charles E. Fritz, a giant of modern disaster studies, a field that emerged after World War II, and she was amazed by his views.  Fritz’s most “radical premise,” she explained, “is that everyday life is already a...