COVID-19

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Time has been playing strange tricks since the pandemic turned our world upside down. Stretching, bending, and collapsing into themselves, temporal dimensions have unraveled in a majestic dance. Perhaps this is the closest some of us will ever come to the physical awareness that linear time is a construct, that it can divide and multiply into countless pathways, that it can stop, and start whenever it wishes to. The reality that follows is incoherent. Are we travelers whizzing through hours …

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This blog was originally published as a part of ‘Dossier Corona’, introduced by Religious Matters Project at Utrecht University in the spring of 2020. Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, in Christian Orthodox churches across Eastern Europe and several post-Soviet countries, the age-old altercation between religion and science is condensing around a small material object – the communion spoon. This shared utensil, used to deliver sacramental bread and wine to the parish, is now brandished by liberal secularists as the ultimate insignia …

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