Since the pandemic began, Australians are having more spiritual conversations and thinking about mortality more often. So why do many of us consider ourselves not religious?
In a search for answers, she wrote letters to two top Christian figures – the former archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, and the head of the Episcopalian Church, Bishop Michael Curry.
"Getting responses from them [helped me] come back to something similar [to believing in God] but in a different form," she says.'I handed my life to a higher power'McCrindle studyhave begun to think more about God since COVID began, and three in 10 say they've been praying more.This was the case for motivational coachDuring the most difficultIn the thick of it, she would feel anxious travelling to work because of the high infection rate.
"Some may call it God, some may call it unity consciousness. [It's] a divine power that is expressing itself in the universe and we are vehicles of that expression."For Egyptian-American poet and writer Yahia Lababidi, the pandemic has provided time to reflect on his religion, Islam.early days, he found solace in reading the Qu'ran, and deepening his understanding of the significance of the pandemic.
"I found myself, as though … pretending that this were the last hour … and paying closer attention," he says.Yahia believes the early experience of the pandemic put everyone into a "collective state of inwardness [and] contemplation", while also testing people through the "real fear of losing loved ones".
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