Remembering fondly our three Covid editions last year, again we invited contributions to this edition based around living in the Covid-19 pandemic.

Stimulus welcomes the submission of material for Publication.

In the first semester of 2021, I had the privilege of five months of research leave: time set aside to ask, listen, read, analyse, explore, and write.

“Jesus is My Vaccine,” reads the placard carried by a cartoon character in a cartoon appearing in the New Zealand Listener.[1]

My context is Aotearoa New Zealand.

Should we see God’s hand of judgement in Covid-19?

The flood has long been a topic of debate, much of which has centred on the historicity and extent of the flood.

Stimulus joined with Anne and Alister Irwin via zoom during Auckland’s level 3.2 lockdown in November 2021.

“There is a secret in every work of art; there is a secret in every tale – a secret which only the teller knows and sometimes the reader receives without knowing it … There is a secret in every tale, book, and novel and that is what makes the unity of the work.”[1]

At the beginning of September, I was relieved as an Aucklander to learn of the government’s announcement that they would relax the city’s level 3 restrictions.

It has come to the attention of the publishers of Stimulus that people aren’t reading the Bible like they used to when they, well, when they used to read the Bible.

Release date: November 2019, Directed by: Fernando Meirelles, Screenplay by: Anthony McCarten, Available on: Netflix

George Harrison’s hit song Something (from the Beatles’ album Abbey Road) might well be saying more than it initially appears.[1]

JÖRG FREY (KATHLEEN ESS, TRANSLATOR) WACO: BAYLOR UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2018. xlii +518 PP. ISBN 978-1-4813-0919-6 $134.99.

MURRAY J. HARRIS BELLINGHAM, WA: LEXHAM, 2020. XVII + 226 PP. ISBN 9781683593959. $39.08.

WALTER BRUEGGEMANN EUGENE, OR: CASCADE BOOKS, 2020. XII + 80PP. ISBN 978-1-7253-7673-4. $20.00

MARK J. KEOWN BELLINGHAM, WA: LEXHAM, 2021. XX + 615 pp. ISBN. 978-1-683-59382-09. Hardback edition, $119.00; Logos edition $35.99.

CHARLES TALIAFERRO (CASCADE COMPANIONS) EUGENE, OR: CASCADE BOOKS, 2020. IX + 104 PP. ISBN: 978-1-7252-8820-1. $23.00.

BRETT WILSON CASTLE PUBLISHING, NEW ZEALAND, 2020. 262PP. ISBN 978-0-473-53464-6. $26.95.

INTRODUCTION BY MARK LABBERTON BELLINGHAM: LEXHAM, 2019. X + 365 PP. ISBN 9781683593409. $31.00.

SARAH GILBERT & CATHERINE GREEN (WRITTEN WITH DEBORAH CREWE). LONDON: HODDER & STOUGHTON, 2021. 336 PP (INCLUDING APPENDICES AND INDEX). ISBN 9781529369878 (PAPER). $28.54.