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"The Covid pandemic caused both horrific loss of life and tremendous psychological uncertainty and stress, with diagnoses of anxiety and mental illness at much higher levels than in 2019. For believers, the pandemic raised obvious questions about the nature of God and increased the need for both material and spiritual pastoral care. At the same time, religious traditions also offered resources for making sense of such deep disruption. This volume presents twelve reflections on the pandemic and its impact from Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, non-believing, and Christian traditions. The chapters offer scholarly insight and rigor; but they also contain personal reflections on what it means to work through such a life-changing event and to make meaning in a moment when life confronts us as so clearly partial, fragmented, and fragile"--
About the author
Michael Reid Trice, PhD, is Spehar-Halligan professor in constructive theology and founding director of the Center for Ecumenical and Interreligious Engagement at Seattle University. He publishes and presents in the areas of religious literacy, pluralism, and structural analysis. He is currently co-editing a multi-author volume on leadership (Georgetown University Press, 2026). As of Fall 2024, he teaches in the Executive Leadership Program through the Albers School of Business and Economics at Seattle University.
Patricia O'Connell Killen, PhD, is a professor of religion, emerita, and a Humanities Faculty Fellow at Pacific Lutheran University. She has published extensively on religion in the Pacific Northwest, Catholicism in North America, and faith-inspired higher education. Most recently, she co-edited
Religion at the Edge: Nature, Spirituality, and Secularity in the Pacific Northwest (2022).
