Economics and COVID-19 May 20, 2020 Essays & Reviews, Features, Highlight The trauma of the pandemic has not erased our differences, but has instead revealed how deep-seated our differences are, and how deeply they divide us.
Clergy: Good on Finances But Need Better Habits May 18, 2020 Features, Highlight A Church Pension Group study found that Episcopal clergy know more about personal finances and are more likely to live beneath their means than comparable peers in the general population, but wide disparities also exist.
Rest for Your Souls May 17, 2020 Features, Highlight Spiritual director Marcia Hotchkiss urges the Church to "share a little more hope, a little more Jesus," in these times of great suffering and uncertainty.
Episcopal Asian-Americans Targeted in Pandemic May 13, 2020 Features, Updates People of Asian descent report threats and harassment based on their ethnicity, based on the fact that the first reported cases of COVID-19 were in China.
A Hymn for Today: A Tiny Thing We Cannot See May 12, 2020 Features Nonagenarian Rae Whitney, one of the Episcopal Church's most prolific hymn writers has released a hymn about this season of the coronavirus. Writing from her Nebraska retirement home, Whitney offers a tribute to brave caregivers and a word of hope for the troubled.
ARCHIVES: V-E Day: Rejoicing, Reconsecration, Work May 8, 2020 From the Archives In two issues in May, 1945, The Living Church reported extensively on joyful and solemn observances of V-E Day throughout the Episcopal Church, including at a Milwaukee war products factory. An Episcopal army chaplain also reported on a burial service he conducted the same day for 200 concentration camp victims in Ludwigslust, Germany.
New: 5/17 TLC Online May 7, 2020 Features The May 17 edition of The Living Church is available online to registered subscribers. (Consider subscribing today!)
Virtual Coffee Hours: “A Vital Ministry for This Moment” May 7, 2020 Features The smell of coffee may be absent and the youth choir might not be running through the parish hall, but people get to connect.
Learning Alone: Four Reflections May 7, 2020 Features Students at different stages of life discuss adapting to learning in solitude.
