As secular idols become increasingly unmasked questions abound. I should think Christians most of all would see innumerable opportunities in the hopeful and redemptive witness of the Christian Gospel.

Admittedly Christianity struggles with negative stereotyping from the secular world, but this is not new. Forty years ago, Walker Percy's "The Second Coming" observed that Christians are generally regarded as lukewarm nominalist or if fervent, generally offensive.

What I am now understanding (and am sharing here) is not going to be popular in some quarters, especially among those who are gaining some benefit or political traction due to the fear. There are indeed a number of powerful ambulance-chasing, crisis-loving parasites who love it when very bad things happen. Some media types fall into that category-- the bigger the crisis, the bigger the story.

In late March, FEMA, Homeland Security and the White House reached out to Samaritan's Purse's President Franklin Graham, seeking his organization's assistance in setting up a field hospital as a much-needed overflow field hospital for the 1,134-bed Mount Sinai Hospital.

During this worldwide pandemic, Samaritan's Purse has set up two completely self-contained M*A*S*H-like field hospitals. One is in New York City; the other is currently deployed to Italy.

Samaritan's Purse is led by the Rev. Franklin Graham, who has been criticized for anti-Muslim and anti-L.G.B.T.Q. rhetoric and whose organization is based on a statement of faith that includes a belief that "marriage is exclusively the union of one genetic male and one genetic female."