Tag Archives: covid-19

The surge in COVID-19 rates makes responding to disasters like Ida more complicated.

One year of unoccupied houses of worship, of virtual services, of online community – I can’t help but wonder how this will forever impact U.S. congregations. I feel honored that I actually get to be part of a research team that gets to study this. It’s aptly called the EPIC project – Exploring the Pandemic Impact on Congregations: Innovation Amidst and Beyond COVID-19.

As the COVID vaccine becomes more accessible to broad swaths of the population, faith leaders are finding ways to combat vaccine hesitancy, encourage a return to normalcy and reckon with the ways in which the vaccine fits into their faith.

It took only 13 months for the deadly COVID 19 pandemic to kill the equivalent of every resident of Spokane County.

With kids and the internet involved, virtual pageants, it turns out, are just as delightfully unpredictable as more traditional performances at churches.

As the week begins, those who track such things tell us the COVID pandemic is going to wreak unprecedented havoc in the next month.