The Century's latest on the coronavirus pandemic
Grieving my daughter’s suicide in a time of wider grief
My years of experience as an undertaker didn’t make it easier.
by Thomas Lynch
My dad died from COVID-19. My grief is a lonely one.
I’m the only person he loved the way he loved me.
How do we grieve the hundreds of thousands of people the COVID-19 pandemic has killed?
We posed this question to five writers.
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The COVID-19 pandemic shows that Trump simply isn’t governing
And it isn’t partisan to say that a president who can’t or won’t do his job should be replaced by one who can and will.
Our masks have unmasked us
There is a parable here of half-hidden faces, wounds, and a lack of love.
My brother is an essential worker at a grocery store
I wish we actually valued his dangerous work.
by Tony Coleman
The Asian American Christian Collaborative’s efforts to confront anti-Asian racism in the church
The pandemic has made an existing problem worse.
N. T. Wright and Walter Brueggemann look to the Bible for wisdom during the pandemic
They both resist easy answers to the problem of suffering.
I don’t have a personal relationship with Jesus
I experience God through the embodied community of faith—and I miss it.
by Debie Thomas
Trump’s eviction moratorium doesn’t help tenants pay their rent or landlords pay their mortgages
A real solution would require a large infusion of cash.
Four ways faith leaders can shift to trauma-informed ministry
When everyone is traumatized, caregiving takes on new dimensions.
The pandemic didn’t make our food system vulnerable
It always has been—because vulnerability is part of creation.
When the best of times and the worst of times coincide
At St. Martin-in-the-Fields, we’re living through beautiful, nightmarish days.
by Samuel Wells
Government denial is raising the stakes of COVID-19 in Nicaragua
Amid a disinformation campaign, churches are trying to provide education and aid.
Separated from one another—yet still in harmony
Evagrius Pontus and Howard Thurman knew God as simultaneously far and near.
The shape of liturgy when everything is changing
Even stones are constantly being transformed.
Virtual worship has become the people’s work
Discovering the limits—and possibilities—of common prayer via Zoom
by Bryan Cones