{"id":14152,"date":"2020-03-17T05:10:04","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T10:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=14152"},"modified":"2020-03-17T05:12:07","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T10:12:07","slug":"a-family-update-in-strange-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=14152","title":{"rendered":"A Family Update in Strange Times"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>These are strange times, aren&rsquo;t they? They are probably the strangest I&rsquo;ve encountered in my life, comparable perhaps only to the aftermath of 9\/11 in all its scope and fear and uncertainty. Like so many of you, I&rsquo;m keeping an eye on the news so I know how to adapt and how my family can do our part as the increasingly severe measures are handed down and as the increasingly tragic death toll creeps higher. For those who are interested, here&rsquo;s what we&rsquo;re up to just now.<\/p>\n<p>My son (aged 20), a student at Boyce College and the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (where he&rsquo;s enrolled in the five-year program that combines the undergraduate and M.Div. programs), returned home on Saturday after the college and seminary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbts.edu\/covid-19\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">closed their doors<\/a>. He is now in self-isolation within our home since, as per Government of Canada regulations, anyone returning from any other country is required to remain isolated for two weeks. Thankfully, he shows no signs of exposure or symptoms. Though his schools canceled classes for two days, they picked up again via the Internet on Monday, so he carries on with his usual schedule.<\/p>\n<p>My two daughters began their regularly-scheduled March<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are strange times, aren\u2019t they? They are probably the strangest I\u2019ve encountered in my life, comparable perhaps only to the aftermath of 9\/11 in all its scope and fear and uncertainty. Like so many of you, I\u2019m keeping an eye on the news so I know how to adapt and how my family can do our part as the increasingly severe measures are handed down and as the increasingly tragic death toll creeps higher. For those who are interested, \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":14156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[303],"class_list":["post-14152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tim-challies","tag-articles","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/berkay-gumustekin-hRg1KL4-AUE-unsplash-1-1.jpg?fit=910%2C320&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14152"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14158,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14152\/revisions\/14158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}