A Pandemic Proposal: Viral Vitality: Hope for the Human Soul

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic's chaos, Art Toalston explores a unique form of vitality. Despite societal fear, economic instability, and the health risks to frontliners, there exists a potential for enriched living. This book delves into how, amidst widespread suffering, our spirits can still thrive. It suggests pursuing an optimized life perspective, emphasizing that the pandemic cannot change the essence of the human soul.

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About the Author: Art Toalston
Art Toalston, named among the “10 Most Fascinating Southern Baptists of 2019” by the SBC This Week postcast, is a journalistic adventurer and spiritual disciplines advocate. He is on the internet at arttoalston.com; on Facebook at @atoalston; Twitter & Instagram at @arttoalston.

Art is the author of two ebooks, When I Meditate: Reclaiming a Key Facet of Prayer and Meditation & Morality: Praying for a Better Way; two discipleship resources at arttoalston.com, Pray – and Live – As Never Before and Your Soul on Scripture; and Lamp Unto My Feet: A Verse-A-Day Devotional (HarperSanFrancisco, 1997) in which 365 Christian leaders share the Scriptures that have guided their lives.

His career includes thirty-five years in communications for Baptist Press (1992-2019) and the Southern Baptist International Mission Board (1985-91) and ten years in newspaper journalism and education.

Art was raised in a United Presbyterian church in northeastern Ohio. As a young adult, he converted to Catholicism and later was baptized in a Christian and Missionary Alliance church. After moving to Mississippi in 1977, he joined a Southern Baptist church.

He holds a Master of Arts degree in journalism from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, in addition to an undergraduate degree in speech and journalism from Bowling Green State University in Ohio. He also has taken graduate coursework at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Texas; Presbyterian School of Christian Education in Virginia; and Wesley Biblical Seminary in Mississippi.
Even amid the horrors and heavy sorrows of the global COVID-19 pandemic, there can be a distinct vitality in our souls, in our circumstances, in our relationships, in the world within our sphere of influence, and in how we each move into the future. It may not be a euphoric vitality when a prolific number of us suffer illness, and many die, in a society gripped by fear, economic tumult, and looming infections facing healthcare and law enforcement personnel and store clerks.

But still, just as our physical bodies, when well, function as they were intended to do, so too can the spirit within us. Journalist and spiritual disciplines advocate Art Toalston ventures into a vitality that can enhance our daily lives, even in a time of social upheaval and widespread grief. As long as we have a heartbeat and can breathe, why not venture forward with an optimized view of life? A coronavirus pandemic cannot alter God’s creation of the human soul.

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