Laidlaw College
Volume 27/Issue 2/2020
Editorial
In this second part of the special COVID-19 edition of Stimulus, we have another feast of articles. Read more…Guidelines for Contributors
Stimulus welcomes the submission of material for Publication. Read more…A Covid Christology: Art, Atonement and the Forming of the Social Body in a Time of Pandemic
The highpoint of the Christian calendar, the festival of Easter, fell in a lockdown period this year. Read more…COVID-19—An Invitation to Ecological Repentance?
During the COVID-19 Level 4 period of imposed isolation I found myself reflecting on the parallels between the biblical story of Noah ... Read more…Numbers
A found poem based on the article, “On the wait, and the weight” by Leonie Hayden[1] Read more…Notes of Hope in the Face of Suffering (Rom 8:18–39)
As I write, the COVID-19 pandemic is sweeping through the world taking lives and causing pain and fear. Such an event raises the ... Read more…“To those who are shut up from our Society”: Symon Patrick’s Pastoral Ministry in London During the Great Plague of 1665
So widespread was the contagion, one observer reported, that the city’s population began “to fear whom they converse withal, and deal ... Read more…Wilderness
My desert is pavement that I tread each day, The same houses I walk by daily. The Israelites spent 40 years in mundanity, I pray ... Read more…The Proof is in the Providence
It is not uncommon—one might even say it is normal—that in cases of trauma, suffering, and tragedy, people re-evaluate their ... Read more…What Sort of People do we Want to Be? A Review Article with Reflections on the COVID-19 Crisis
This arrived in my inbox last week: Few could have predicted that we would be reaching Easter this year with more than half the world ... Read more…Mā whero, mā pango, ka oti te mahi: With red and with black the work will be done
“To steer correctly, a system with inherent physical momentum needs to be looking decades ahead.”[1] Read more…Corona on the Side of the Road. Reflections on the Good Samaritan Re-read
Reading: Luke 10:25-37 Jesus told imaginative stories to address real issues of his day. One of these was the parable of the Good ... Read more…Narratives of Despair, Imaginations of Hope
For Christians, hope is ultimately hope in Christ. The hope that he really is what for centuries we have been claiming he is. The hope ... Read more…Our “Spiritual War-Work” in the Age of COVID-19
During World War 2, the British, Anglican, mystical theologian and spiritual director, Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941), encouraged a ... Read more…ST Imulus: Jobs Galore
I ran into Saint Job recently – a guy from the earlier times, and carrying a rather unusual name in these parts. Read more…“Neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem” (John 4:21): A Reflection on the Closure of Churches in the Face of COVID-19.
The church, as the people of God, is like a giant octopus reaching out. The people of God spread out from the centre into the ... Read more…Receptions of Job and Theologies of Suffering
In the midst of crisis, whether personal or cosmic, many have found solidarity in the voice of Job. Read more…
