Some believe that God is at work in everything, even the miseries of the world. Others approach things a little more cynically — Rahm Emanuel infamously said: “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.”
I write about Daniel Darling in the spirit of the former, but the latter works, too, if you must. He was fired from his job as vice president for communications at the National Religious Broadcasters for publicly advocating in the media for people — Christians, in particular — to get one of the available COVID-19 vaccines. As someone who hesitated for moral and medical reasons longer than Anthony Fauci would approve, I appreciated his graciousness in sharing his experience. On MSNBC’s Morning Joe, he was doing the noble work of persuasion. He has respect for those who are not vaccinated yet, because he has respect for the human person, and so he treats people the way he would like to be treated — an approach we’re probably all aware that he didn’t invent. He would seem a rarity these days: someone who engages in the culture, and about controversial topics, without a hint of animus toward those he disagrees with, even if he sees it as a matter of grave evil.
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