{"id":8190,"date":"2020-05-15T14:32:46","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T14:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.luthersem.edu\/news\/?p=8190"},"modified":"2020-11-11T14:36:40","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T14:36:40","slug":"star-tribune-professor-mark-tranvik-writes-on-how-god-may-be-speaking-through-the-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.luthersem.edu\/news\/2020\/05\/15\/star-tribune-professor-mark-tranvik-writes-on-how-god-may-be-speaking-through-the-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Tribune: Professor Mark Tranvik writes on how God may be speaking through the pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-897 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.luthersem.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/12\/MarkTranvik.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">An op-ed by Mark Tranvik, professor of Reformation history and theology at Luther Seminary, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.startribune.com\/coronavirus-pandemic-god-speaks-to-us-in-the-challenges-he-sends\/570518842\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cCoronavirus pandemic: God speaks to us in the challenges he sends,\u201d<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was published by the Star Tribune on May 15. Tranvik writes that \u201ctimes of crisis are also opportunities to reflect on what God might be saying.\u201d He suggests three things that we may wish to reflect on in light of the pandemic: what is truly important, our need for each other, and the need to distinguish creation from the Creator.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An op-ed by Mark Tranvik, professor of Reformation history and theology at Luther Seminary, \u201cCoronavirus pandemic: God speaks to us in the challenges he sends,\u201d was published by the Star Tribune on May 15. 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