pandemic

When the Antonine Plague hit in 165, says historian Colin Elliott, the Roman Empire was already well on its way to failure.

Jenny Odell argues that we need to get back in touch with our preindustrial sense of time.

During the pandemic, I went six months without touching another human being. I felt starved.

She’s helping me answer the question, “Why this life instead of another?”

A letter to pastors and churchgoers who wonder what happened to the prepandemic church they knew.

At this point we’re all into whatever is our way of being together as endemic church.

It is so tender that God would say God owes us one.

We live between variants; we also live between Advents.

My students and I are finding our way into the world again with Evagrius, Teresa of Ávila, and Howard Thurman.

With the world as they knew it gone, the characters remake the world from the resources they carry inside them.

This isn't the day we envisioned, but it is holy because God is in it.

I don’t know if this is the pandemic’s end game. I do know that new things are already being born in us.

We need to relearn a capacity to dwell in God’s presence.

We’re hungrier than ever for physicality, place, and embodiment.

I murmured my prayers, counted my breaths, and got through it.

In Teresa of Avila, I’ve found a guide on this new path.

This is a high-stakes time. Some churches need to take more creative risks than ever before.

Salvation is not a place but a way of life.

Helping a community navigate historical concerns