Clergy Volunteer at Queens Hospital, The Mask Ladies of Wheeling Island, Hauerwas on the Everyday Matters

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Huge Virtual Choir
for 'The Strife is O'er"

By Kirk Petersen
The Church's Office of Communications pulled together more than 600 Episcopalians in a virtual choir and orchestra to present a beloved resurrection hymn on Easter Sunday. It's still Eastertide, and the performance is still worth a listen.
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Clergy Move Beds & Pray at N.Y. Hospital

By Neva Rae Fox
Like other hospitals in the New York City metro area, St. John's Episcopal Hospital in Queens is struggling to keep up with the coronavirus. Unlike other hospitals, St. John's has a close relationship with the Diocese of Long Island, and clergy members have stepped up to help.
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Ethics Column:
The Everyday Matters

By Stanley Hauerwas
Ethics is often thought to deal with “big questions” and dramatic choices, but in fact the most important and significant aspects of our lives are found in the everyday.
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Harriet Tubman
Wins 'Lent Madness'

By Neva Rae Fox
The heroic former slave who helped run the Underground Railroad easily bested the husband of the Virgin Mary to emerge as the winner of the 11th Lent Madness contest.
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The Mask Ladies
of Wheeling Island

By Mike Patterson
Two dozen women in West Virginia have been churning out cloth face masks by the hundreds, in a project that has expanded beyond the Episcopal church where it started.
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Podcast: Dealing
With Anxiety

Interview by Abigail Woolley Cutter
These are anxious times. Psychologist Monique Reynolds offers practical approaches for coping, rooted in values. It turns out anxiety can be useful.
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Bringing Eucharist to People in Schenectady

By Mark Michael
A story in pictures: An Episcopal priest in eastern New York decided that since he couldn't serve the Eucharist in his church, he would honor it with a traditional eucharistic procession in the streets of the city.
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The Gospel
of Uncleanliness

By Hannah Armidon
The ancient Israelites were experts at social distancing. Have a skin disease? Keep your distance from even your family, wear your hair unkempt, and yell “Unclean!” to anyone who approaches. Only Jesus could provide healing from uncleanliness.
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Eastertide
and the Pandemic

By Eugene R. Schlesinger

Our experience of an Easter that so clearly unfolds in the midst of death ought to direct our hearts and minds upward in recognition that, so long as history continues, we are not yet home. This is true every other Easter as well; we’ve just not noticed it.
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