Your Church Matters
By Jonathan Turtle
As we begin, Lord willing, to emerge from the fog of this pandemic, it may be worth examining and re-considering our relationship to church. Not to the Church but rather to your particular... Read More...
We Must Restore the Chalice: Here’s How to Do It Health-Consciously
By Hannah Bowman
As we approach two years since the first lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic, pressing questions remain for how changes in worship practices have unintentionally shaped our eucharistic theolog... Read More...
Coronavirus and Communion in One Kind
By Drew Nathaniel Keane
In response to the continued risks posed by COVID-19, many churches have restricted all communicants except the presider from reception of the sacramental wine. This expedient has been recommended by the Presiding Bishop and by Matth... Read More...
One Case for Proof of Vaccination for Churches
By Cole Hartin
Hospitals are filling up with people who can barely breathe. Nurses are breaking down in tears. Our chief medical officer warns that hospitals are teetering into over-capacity. The fourth wave... Read More...
Six Lessons for a New Pandemic Rector
By Clint Wilson
I arrived in my parish five weeks before the pandemic hit Louisville, Ky. Is this what it felt like to start as a firefighter five weeks before 9/11? I am now 20 months into my tenure, and I ... Read More...
How the Pandemic Made Me a Better Preacher; or Learning from Richard Greenham
Study. Pray. Have one point about the texts and get to it. Be winsome and authentic. Start the Creed.
By Calvin Lane
While I have no desire to add to the veritable avalanche of posts, essays, and podcasts about the Church and the pandemic, it has become cl... Read More...
The Beheading of John the Baptist and the (Post-)Traumatic Church
By Elizabeth Anderson
The new trial use commemorations approved by the Episcopal Church’s 2018 General Convention include several feasts that are both ancient and widespread, despite their previous absence f... Read More...
Prayer in Time of Plague
By Drew Nathaniel Keane
The degree of physical adversity and suffering that was commonplace for our ancestors defies our imagination. We live on the other side of advances in technology and medicine that wou... Read More...