COVID-19

COVID-19 has reframed how we grieve

The church has traditionally been a place of solace, but the pandemic has made mourning rituals more difficult. A managing director of Leadership Education at Duke Divinity asks whether faith communities can regain that role.

By Victoria Atkinson White Managing director, Leadership Education at Duke Divinity

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In the face of pandemic food insecurity, one church takes on the ministry of giving away groceries

As members of their community faced hunger this past year, Virginia’s Mount Olive Baptist Church focused on finding and distributing quality food for free.

By Leslie Quander Wooldridge Journalist

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Tired of constantly adapting to worship in a pandemic? You’re not alone

Many churches thought that vaccines would pave the way back to normal worship, but new COVID-19 realities are forcing us to keep pivoting.

By Angie Hong Worship leader, writer and speaker

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When the pandemic closed schools, an existing network of congregations and others jumped in to offer meals — and more

Churches, government agencies and nonprofits that already served struggling families responded to the pandemic by ramping up their shared mission beyond providing children with summer meals.

By Dan Holly Journalist

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Where is the measuring tape?

COVID has complicated how we determine the scale of our work, but asking key questions can help, writes the executive director of Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.

By David L. Odom Executive director, Leadership Education at Duke Divinity

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Francis Collins: Science is ‘a glimpse of God’s mind’

As a community anchored on the principle of truth, the church can play a leading role in guiding us out of the pandemic, says the director of the National Institutes of Health.

The parable of the shopping carts

After 18 months of trying to protect ourselves and others from COVID-19, our frustration with those who reject all measures is real, writes an editor of Faith & Leadership.

By Aleta Payne Senior associate editor, Faith & Leadership

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How our pandemic experience might help the church engage “nones” and “dones”

Let’s leverage a year of forced innovation to be church in a way that attracts people who really are done with religion, writes a minister at a Greenwich Village church.

By Alexis Lillie Minister, The Church of the Village

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Is it even possible for pastors to practice rest and self-care?

Like many essential workers, pastors are pushed to work very hard for very little. It’s no surprise that so many of us are tired.

By Carrington Moore Pastor, Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church

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Women clergy and the pandemic: Weary, but not giving up

In these profiles, four clergywomen share their pandemic stories. Like many American women, they’ve struggled to balance work, home and community in lives upended by the coronavirus.

By Yonat Shimron Journalist

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