The latest virus fear is Zika, which could shrink the heads of newborns if their expectant mothers are exposed to it. Apparently the virus has been confined to tropical areas in the Third World, and so researchers in the rich world have devoted few resources to preventing or curing it. Now, however, with the threat looming, they are kicking their research into overdrive–and perhaps too late.
If the West were more good and less self-focused, perhaps we would have been doing the hard work of fighting Zika all along, out of love for our global neighbors. Truly, the wages of sin, even the sin of not caring for others, is death.
About Stan Guthrie
Stan Guthrie is an editor at large for Christianity Today magazine and for the Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview. His latest book is God's Story in 66 Verses. He also is author of All that Jesus Asks: How His Questions Can Teach and Transform Us, Missions in the Third Millennium: 21 Key Trends for the 21st Century, and A Concise Guide to Bible Prophecy. He is co-author of The Sacrament of Evangelism. Besides authoring, writing, and editing books, Stan is a literary agent, bringing together good authors, good books, and good publishers.
Stan writes the monthly Priorities colum for BreakPoint.org. He has appeared on National Public Radio's Tell Me More, WGN's Milt Rosenberg program, and many Christian shows, including The Eric Metaxas Show and Moody Radio's New Day Florida. A licensed minister and an inspirational speaker, he served as moderator for the Christian Book Expo panel discussion, Does the God of Christianity Exist, and What Difference Does It Make?
The latest virus fear is Zika, which could shrink the heads of newborns if their expectant mothers are exposed to it. Apparently the virus has been confined to tropical areas in the Third World, and so researchers in the rich world have devoted few resources to preventing or curing it. Now, however, with the threat looming, they are kicking their research into overdrive–and perhaps too late.
