Van Gogh painting stolen from museum during coronavirus shutdown: The nonmedical consequences of COVID-19 and the response of reasonable faith
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🗓️ 30 March 2020
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Summary
Vincent van Gogh painted “Lentetuin,” or “Spring Garden,” in 1884. The painting is estimated to be worth between one million and six million euros.
This morning, the director of the Netherlands museum where the painting was on loan announced that it had been stolen overnight.
The theft is just one example of the pandemic’s ever-widening consequences. Here’s another: isolation and anxiety regarding COVID-19 may be acting as triggers for those in recovery.
And another: according to Time, “As the physical coronavirus pandemic continues to spread, an emotional pandemic is following fast in its wake.”
In response, let’s consider a biblical meditation that may help us respond to fear with faith.
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| 0:11.9 | Hi, this is Jim Denison, the Denison Forum, and this is the Daily Article special edition |
| 0:16.2 | from March 30th, 2020. Vincent Van Gogh painted Lentatwin or Spring Garden in 1884. The great artist |
| 0:23.6 | depicted a woman in a garden with red flowered bushes and a church building in the background. |
| 0:28.4 | The painting is estimated to be worth between 1 million and 6 million euros. This morning, |
| 0:33.2 | the director of the Netherlands Museum, where the painting was on loan, announced that it had been |
| 0:37.1 | stolen overnight. He said, I am shocked and absolutely livid that this has happened. director of the Netherlands Museum, where the painting was on loan, announced that it had been stolen |
| 0:37.5 | overnight. He said, I am shocked and absolutely livid that this has happened. Police stated that thieves, |
| 0:43.3 | quote, entered by breaking through the glass doors, end quote, were gone by the time police responded |
| 0:48.5 | to the alarm. Dutch museums have been closed since March 12th because of the coronavirus outbreak. The theft is just one |
| 0:55.4 | example of the pandemic's ever-widening consequences. Here's another. Isolation and anxiety regarding |
| 1:01.9 | COVID-19 may be acting as triggers for those in recovery, especially when coupled with canceled |
| 1:08.1 | Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous meetings. |
| 1:15.1 | We may see a rise in drug and alcohol relapses as a result. |
| 1:16.9 | Here's another consequence. |
| 1:21.5 | According to time, quote, as the physical coronavirus pandemic continues to spread, an emotional pandemic is following fast in its wake. |
| 1:25.9 | The article notes that, quote, |
| 1:29.0 | doctors are reporting both new anxieties among existing patients and relapses among former ones. The Federalist reports that |
| 1:35.4 | nine people died from suicide within 48 hours in Knox County, Tennessee last week. That's more people |
| 1:41.4 | than had died so far from coronavirus in the entire state. |
| 1:46.0 | As USA Today notes, the pandemic is affecting us all. |
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