04 Target Audience & Lessons Learned From Covid Crisis From Reverend Robert L. Gram: In this segment of his radio interview, the subject of who is enjoying Rev. Gram's book, Christ and Covid-19: Meditations for Peace in Times of Turmoil, and what lessons we all might learn from this worldwide tragedy.The longer the pandemic lingers, the more uncertainty it breeds. Hope backslides as the death count rises, and rates of infection increase. Experts debate when businesses and schools should reopen, and frontline workers in hospitals wonder whether they should find vocations safer for themselves, and their families. Today coronavirus exponentializes fear and doubt. Into this foreboding new world, Rev. Dr. Robert L. Gram has written Christ and Covid-19: Meditations for Peace in Times of Turmoil. As an early reader noted, “I sleep better at night because of the book.” This is the author’s intention.“Not only is this book a welcome resource for calm during this period of our history, but it also is an important hallmark of how the world is reacting and communicating while in quarantine.” Grady Harp, Amazon Hall of Fame Top 50 Reviewer, 5 StarsAlthough Dr. Gram retired from ministry in 2017, he was called back into part time service, when a pastoral colleague underwent serious surgery. During March, Covid-19 exploded in the mid-Hudson Valley of New York State, where Pastor Gram lives and serves. Worship in the sanctuary ceased, and he started preaching on YouTube and the lawn outside the church. Because of the virus, however, pastors couldn’t perform tasks like hospital and home visitation. Thus the meditations compensated for the pastoral roles Covid-19 had stolen. The minister writes to comfort, and make sense of a period which makes little sense. He describes a compassionate God, and God’s Son, Jesus, who understands our brokenness because he experienced it. Although Dr. Gram is a Christian, he hopes the book will help all who struggle with the pandemic whatever their belief system.

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