Government-provided resources
CDC resource page for community- and faith-based leaders
HHS resource on faith, community and mental health during the COVID-19 crisis (PDF)
U.S. Small Business Administration’s coronavirus relief options
Pastoral resources
Stop the Spread Playbook for Community-based Vaccinations
Stop the Spread: Practices and tools for planning, co-designing, and implementing community-based models that advance vaccine equity.
10 guidelines for pastoral care during the coronavirus outbreak
Christian Century: How can we accompany people through this valley of anxiety, fear, and death?
COVID-19 and worship: Resources for churches adapting to social isolation
Calvin Institute of Christian Worship: As containment of COVID-19 forces your worshiping community to implement ‘shelter in place’ worship and practice social isolation, we offer these resources to help you plan and cope in ways that encourage and support your community.
Guide: Forum for Theological Exploration’s Guide to Gathering Virtually
When churches reopen, don’t sing or shake hands, do make sermons short, says guide
Religion News Service: An ecumenical group of clergy, scientists and other experts has released a guide to help congregations consider best practices for reopening for worship.
Guide: Resuming care-filled worship and sacramental life during a pandemic (PDF)
Resources: Stop the Spread’s suite of information and related organizations
10 ideas for church financial leaders amid the COVID-19 crisis
UMC Discipleship: Here are some directions for financial leaders across the church to help with sustaining the church and its ministry as we live through the coronavirus crisis.
Guide for Christian funerals during COVID-19 (PDF)
Massachusetts Council of Churches: In times of trial like the death of a loved one, we turn to the familiar practices from our faith and ancestors. And so, we know that this disruption for a grieving community is doubly hard.
Religion news and opinion
What being rich, religious or Republican has to do with getting married and having children
Deseret News: A new study exposes a growing divide when it comes to post-COVID-19 family formation.
Most Americans who go to religious services say they would trust their clergy’s advice on COVID-19 vaccines
Pew Research Center: But a slim majority have not heard their congregation’s leaders say much about them.
A COVID serenity prayer
The Atlantic: We need the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, courage to change the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Vaccine resisters seek religious exemptions. But what counts as religious?
The New York Times: Major denominations are essentially unanimous in their support of the vaccines against Covid-19, but individuals who object are citing their personal faith for support.
Faith leaders’ year of pandemic: grief, solace, resilience
Associated Press: The pandemic, said one assistant pastor, “has called us to rethink and re-imagine what our philosophy of ministering really is in the age of COVID.”
Other news and opinion
We’re already barreling toward the next pandemic
The Atlantic: This one is far from over, but the window to prepare for future threats is closing fast.
Six rules that will define our second pandemic winter
The Atlantic: The pandemic keeps changing, but these principles can guide your thinking through the seasons to come.
Will we ever grasp the enormity of the pandemic?
GEN Magazine: As long as we focus on deaths and statistics, the bigger story of Covid-19 will go untold.
The short-term, middle-term, and long-term future of the coronavirus
STAT: However long it takes, the transition to a mild endemic virus is unlikely to be a straight line.
