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Finding Hope
In Digital Worship

By G. Jeffrey MacDonald
Churches around the country are trying to adapt quickly to online worship. There are silver linings to be found.
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Will YouTube Spoil Your Online Easter?

By Kirk Petersen
Some churches have reported having live-stream services knocked offline for unexplained violations. TLC found an explanation for one church, and took a deep dive into YouTube's copyright procedures.
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A Collect from a Previous Pandemic

By Mark Michael
A quartet from London's oldest parish church recorded a performance of a brand-new setting for a nearly century-old "Collect in the Time of Plague and Common Sickness," just before they lost access to the famous venue.
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Pandemic Poses Extra Challenge in Haiti

By Kirk Petersen
Frequent hand-washing? It would help to have running water. Online worship? It would help to have reliable electricity. A report from the Episcopal Diocese of Haiti.
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Socks, Showers and Don't Share the Bong

By Leonard Freeman
A church in a small town in Oregon, where marijuana is legal and the homeless have few options, seeks to provide basic comforts and practical advice.
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Behold, the Man

Review by Stephen Platten
Philippe Herreweghe's recording of Bach's St. John's Passion is a tour de force of intensity and lingering beauty.
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Help Your Church Apply for CARES funds

Fr. Mark Michael, TLC's Editor, hosts a videoconference with an Episcopal tax attorney, who provides advice for churches seeking funding from the $2.2 trillion coronavirus recovery legislation.
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Podcast: Will We Have Been Wise?

On the Living Church Podcast, a scholar and a bishop explore how the lack of in-person Eucharists may affect the Church in the long run.
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Bread & Roses
& Resurrection

By Lizzie McManus-Dail
When death feels like a cleansing — when death is at a safe distance — I love Lent. But when death is all around me, I feel like the empty florist shop resplendent with flowers that will never live and die surrounded by people.
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(Don't) Take and Eat

By Junius Johnson
We cannot currently gather for the Eucharist, but what God can do through a sacrament, God can do apart from a sacrament.
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