Posts by Danielle Ellis, MD, MTS
Quiet Time
When Hagar flees after Abram and Sarai, wary of God’s unrealized promise to make their descendants as numerous as the stars (Genesis 15:5), take matters of procreation into their own hands and take advantage of her in the process, she finds herself in both a literal and physical desert.
Read MoreWhat Am I to Do? On Our Time and Talents as Practitioners of Healthcare
Two confessions before I get too far in—the first is that this post is a reflection of my own struggles that remain very much unresolved and in process; the second is that this post is a summation of that which I have heard in sermons, read in seminary and absorbed from my elders over the years, and any wisdom gleaned from it ought to be attributed to these people of God. Now, to begin.
Read MoreStanding in the Gap
“I looked for someone among them who would build up the wall and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found no one” (Ezekiel 22:30, NIV).
Read MoreChristian Phronesis: Practical Wisdom for a Pandemic
Navigating the moral challenges that accompany a pandemic requires more than just knowledge; it requires wisdom. For Christians, Scripture describes a kind of wisdom that is both practical and gospel-centered, one that entails humility and a posture of listening to God.
Read MoreWhen God Says “No” to a Miracle
Evans had contracted COVID-19 in early February 2021. He was 53 years old and, generally speaking, pretty healthy save for being somewhat overweight. He’d gotten progressively worse, then been placed on a ventilator, then developed numerous particularly devastating complications. I met him about a month after he first came to the hospital after getting a “STAT” page from the ICU doctors that Evans was suddenly doing even worse. When I walked into his room, it was clear his life hung in the balance, thinly suspended by mechanized life support and the bit of will he had left.
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