1.I love a good love story, and Jimmy Fallon and his wife Nancy have a great one. Watch...

“I thought he was dating, like 30 people, which I now know is ridiculous…”

—"Ask the Fallons” from The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon

2. Writers writing well about quarantine. Read more…

…What shall we do with this time, the time that remains? Here we are, caught up in the pause between the tides, held in the moment of weightlessness before the bird beats his wings. And we don’t know how much time there is. In fact, that question begins to feel less and less important. Instead, we turn toward ourselves, our actions. What shall we do? How shall we behave in this moment? Which laws still apply, which norms should still govern us, and which should we set lovingly aside?There seem to be two options. The first: do nothing. Stay. Sit still. Remain. Keep teaching your classes, writing your essays, working your job from your kitchen table. Make dinner every night. Vacuum the floors.Another option, …is to use this moment to make a radical change. Break things open. Refuse to stay stuck. Convert. Change. Leave behind those things that no longer serve, and choose a new path. This, in a way, is the path of the apostle.

—”Easter Prophecies” by Julie Gafney in the Point Magazine’s “Quarantine Journals”

3. Famed chef David Chang has a baby, and he’s real teary about it. Watch…

Nervous dad-to-be Dave seeks advice from fellow chefs on how to juggle work and parenting, then tries his hand at making kid-friendly food.

—”Season 2, Episode: Kids Menu” from Series “Ugly Delicious” on Netflix

4. How we practice faith has changed due to quarantine. (Pass the grape-flavored Coke, please.) Read more…

Greg Bullard: We do communion the first Sunday of the month at Covenant of the Cross. In Baptist and many Methodist churches, they have the small glasses of juice and those individual wafers that they pass among the congregation for communion. We told people three days in advance, “OK, get yourself some Saltines or some kind of unleavened cracker.” And “If you’ve got grape juice, that’s fine, if not, get wine, if not, get fruit juice, if not, even grape-flavored Coke—any kind of liquid. And we did communion across the internet. Most of the people who logged in participated.

—"‘Here in Spirit’: An Oral History of Faith Amid Pandemic” by Garett M. Graff at Wired Magazine

5. Samin Nosrat—famed chef of “Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat”—made me laugh on Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell me. Listen…

Samin: Well, yesterday, I had two slices of bread with butter and honey for dinner (laughter).Helen: Yay, you're one of us. You're one of us.Samin: While I was running around the garden chasing my dog. Like, I didn't even sit down.

—”April 11, 2020, with Not My Job Guest Samin Nosrat” from “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me” a podcast from NPR

PLUS…

You can read my latest publication at Christianity Today (um, it’s a downer). Read more…

“Laying the Dead to Rest at Pandemic’s Peak: As morgue capacity is stretched, we face our physical fragility yet reach toward hope of true life” by Liz Charlotte Grant at Christianity Today

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