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Wednesday, February 16, 2022
Bread Breakers: New Jersey Church Finds Creative Way To Do Ministry During Pandemic
When New Dover United Methodist Church in Edison, New Jersey, closed its doors in 2020 to prevent the spread of COVID-19, parishioners went home and made sandwiches.
Monday, January 17, 2022
Omicron Causes Churches to Reconsider Online-Only Worship
When Pastor Cody Natland’s Moran United Methodist Church community restarted indoor worship in their sanctuary in Nov. 2021, he didn’t even make it all the way to the pulpit at the beginning of the service before he started crying.
Friday, January 14, 2022
Despite Pandemic, N.C. Church Comes Together to Buy School District Food Truck
After reading an article about the difficulty of feeding students over the summer, the church had a big idea: Buy the district a food truck.
Tuesday, December 21, 2021
Report Shows Congregations Respond to Pandemic With Extraordinary Social Outreach
Just in time for the holiday season, the Hartford Institute for Religion Research has released its second report examining how U.S. congregations are navigating the COVID-19 pandemic, and findings this time show most churches are embracing new and innovative ministry opportunities.
Tuesday, December 7, 2021
Reflections on Shared Themes in the “Navigating the Pandemic” and “When Pastors Put on the Tech Hat” Reports
The research report When Pastors Put on the ‘Tech Hat’: How Churches Digitized During COVID-19 put out by the Tech in Churches During Covid-19 project appeared two weeks after the launch of the Exploring the Pandemic Impact on Congregations project’s Navigating the Pandemic: A First Look at Co
Monday, November 29, 2021
Tech in Churches During COVID-19 Research Project Publishes First Report
Tech in Churches During COVID-19 is a research project that specifically investigates the role that digital media has played within churches over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tuesday, November 16, 2021
New Report Offers First Glimpse of How U.S. Congregations Are Navigating the COVID-19 Pandemic
In November the Hartford Institute for Religion Research released a study giving the first glimpse of how U.S. congregations are navigating the COVID-19 pandemic, and data shows that congregational life is far from being “back to normal.”
Friday, August 6, 2021
Pandemic Past, Pandemic Present: Masks and Social Distancing
Last week, the Center for Disease Control updated their recommendations for combatting the new Delta variant of the coronavirus.
Wednesday, July 21, 2021
Hartford International University Receives $5 million Lilly Endowment Grant
Hartford International University has been awarded a five-year, $5.3 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. to fund research into how congregations are changing, innovating, and establishing new ministry practices as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. The Hartford Institute for Religion Research (H