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The church can conspire—breathe together—to bring goodness into the world.

Something as big as a plague always remakes the religious landscape.

As Christians, we understand the importance of in-person worship. As APNs, we know how serious COVID-19 is.

It takes more than isolation to make us into contemplatives.

Yvonka Hall, Yvonne Pointer, and Frances Mills are beacons of hope in the face of racial disparities.

For those who work in health care, the COVID-19 crisis is taking quite a toll. Many nurses are short not only on medical supplies but on sustaining hope. Cady Chaplin, an ICU nurse at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, has worked with artist Elizabeth Jaeger to bring artists together to show appreciation for health-care workers. When Chaplin’s ICU was designated as a COVID-19 response unit, she requested a “guerrilla gallery of support from the community.” She and Jaeger reached out to artists to create free, downloadable posters to be placed in break rooms for hospital staff.

I hope our little flock survives. But the church is nonessential to God’s redemption of the world.

Genuine Christian faith is larger than the US Constitution.

When people’s value is reduced to their economic contributions, they are dehumanized.

Those of us privileged enough to stay at home have to go back to work eventually. Will we go back to our former distraction?