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Friday, May 27, 2022
Roleplaying as a Refuge: UU Church Engages Youth Through Dungeons and Dragons During Pandemic
A recent study from the Hartford Institute of Religion Research shows when churches pivoted to virtual worship during the pandemic, children’s and youth programming took one of the biggest hits.
Thursday, April 28, 2022
Survey Shows Religious Education Hit Hard by Pandemic
With summer just around the corner, many churches are gearing up for the return of in-person Vacation Bible School.
Thursday, March 31, 2022
Is A Great Resignation Brewing For Pastors?
Are nearly 40% of clergy really about to leave the ministry?
Saturday, March 26, 2022
For Denver Church, Online Worship Is Way to Save For Permanent Building
When members of Faith Community Baptist Church of Denver realized the Covid-19 pandemic wasn’t going to budge, they decided to embrace “Zoom church” in an extended way.
Wednesday, March 16, 2022
Covid, Churches and Community Service
While we are gratefully observing a decline in cases and an accompanying loosening of safety measures (at least at the time of this writing-- March 2022), the pandemic nevertheless caused damaging effects on many aspects of social life in addition to individual illness and loss of life.
Wednesday, March 2, 2022
How Pastors Became Entrepreneurs by Engaging Technology During the Pandemic
The Tech in Churches During COVID-19 research project recently released its second tech trend paper, which reveals how the engagement of church leaders with technology during the pandemic pushed them to develop not only new technology skills, but character traits.
Friday, February 25, 2022
Can churches be protectors of public health?
Over the past two years of living with COVID-19, many churches have had to think in new ways. Congregations across the country are experimenting with practices such as virtual worship and Bible study or masking and social distancing – even as others go “back to normal.”
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.