The Century's latest on the coronavirus pandemic
Watching The Circle and Love Is Blind while practicing social distancing
Two reality TV shows remind us why physical connection matters.
It's time to face the collective grief of COVID-19
How do we help one another when everyone is grieving something?
The pandemic has made us unintentional monastics
We are urged into the desert of retreat, and we are afraid.
Looking for constancy when routines are disrupted
I’ve been thinking about a French horn teacher I once had.
How I learned to love worshiping via video call
I'm immunocompromised. My ability to attend worship has long been determined by the CDC.
The hell of Holy Saturday
Like many mourners on the front lines of the pandemic, Mary’s body is weighed down with grief.
The coronavirus pandemic is exposing the myth of self-reliance
The people we deem invisible are holding us together right now.
10 years into the Affordable Care Act, a pandemic exposes its limits
The ACA never attempted the kind of structural reform our health-care system needs.
Thinking about Good Friday during a pandemic
This year the Solemn Reproaches are speaking to me in a new way.
The coronavirus pandemic feels like an unending Holy Saturday
We stay home. We look out for others. We wait—but for what?
Has social distancing put us in a double pandemic?
Loneliness is a public health crisis, too.
On not getting used to this
My spiritual practices have long been communal ones. I love people—and their presence.
The resource we most need during the coronavirus pandemic is human relationship
Looking for signs of hope when social distancing keeps us apart
Four guidelines for improvising pastoral leadership through a pandemic
How do ministers lead in unnavigated territory? How do we hold out hope in the face of despair?
Staying connected during the COVID-19 pandemic
What does it mean to be the church when we can’t be together?