Author: Jimmy Adkins

Drawing Closer to Your Kids during a Pandemic

Part 1: The Big Picture Right now, we are all trying to manage with the family home due to the coronavirus. As parents, you might also be struggling as you navigate your own work (or lack of it) while educating, organizing, and occupying your kids. You are likely suffering from quarreling and stir-craziness. But do […]
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Sheltering in Place When Home Isn’t Safe

For many, home is not a safe place. It is where their abuser resides and is the place where abuse happens. As COVID-19 has many of us restricted to our homes, women who are victims of domestic abuse are more vulnerable than ever.[1] The temporary reprieves these women normally have like going to work, Bible […]
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COVID-19: Anxious About Money?

It’s the virus . . . and it’s the money. Please don’t take that as indifference to the medical dangers. The dangers are real and threaten old and young alike. But money also lurks behind so much of our anxiety, and right now our money is under threat, too. The economy is in upheaval, retirement […]
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COVID-19: Living by Probabilities or Providence?

The COVID-19 pandemic is making statisticians of us all. Perhaps you, like me, have investigated where you fall in the mortality-by-age charts. (If you haven’t, don’t.) I’m 58 and, at least on the graphics presented last week, if I contract the virus my probability of death is somewhere around 1.3% (likely higher since the 60-69-year-old […]
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Seeing the People in Front of You

When I wrote this blog, our lives looked different than they do today. Without much warning, we are now reacting to the coronavirus pandemic and many of us feel overwhelmed. Perhaps you feel challenged by what it means to love an out-of-work family member or a sick neighbor. Maybe the fear of exposure plagues you […]
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