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Churches Struggle
To Do More With Less

By G. Jeffrey MacDonald
From coast to coast, churches large and small are feeling financially pinched — and trying to avoid passing along the pain to families that depend on them for salaries, wages or charity. It’s no easy task.
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Dallas Food Pantry Shifts Outdoors

By Mike Patterson
For 28 years, the Church of the Ascension in Dallas has hosted a food pantry in its parish hall, where clients could walk along tables of food and take what they wished. Now it's a drive-through pantry -- clients still get food, but they have less choice of items.
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Liverpool Diocese Furloughs Curates

By Mark Michael
The Diocese of Liverpool in the Church of England has instituted a voluntary furlough program for curates, who typically are newly ordained priests. Participating priests will be eligible to receive 80 percent of their regular salary from the government.
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Vanatu Anglicans Respond to Cyclone

By Mark Michael
The Anglican Diocese of Vanatu and New Caledonia is organizing teams of volunteers in Luganville, where as many as 90 percent of residents are homeless after Tropical Cyclone Harold plowed through the South Pacific islands.
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Anglo-Catholicism
In 1866 Epidemic

By Ian McCormack
Anglican communities engaged in extensive social and nursing work in response to a 19th century cholera epidemic, leading to an increase in religious sisterhoods and an Anglo-Catholic ethos.
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Podcasts: Loneliness
& Performing Arts

On a recent episode of The Living Church Podcast, the Rev. Ron Rolheiser discusses the five kinds of loneliness, and how some of them can lead to spiritual growth. Another episode explores how performing artists are suffering not just a loss of income, but a loss of the creativity that feeds their souls.
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No Other Story: Preach the Readings

By Caleb Congrove
In the first of a series of articles by lay people about preaching, a high school teacher tells priests: "your goal should be an utterly anonymous sermon on whatever it is that the Bible is telling us about that day.” I’m not against sermons that are moving or beautiful, but most aren’t and don’t need to be.
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How to Use
Stimulus Money?

By Benjamin M. Guyer
If you don’t need your stimulus check to make ends meet, there is but one ethical choice: to give it freely. With unemployment so high, stimulus funds need to go where they will do the most good, as quickly as possible.
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Christ, the Lily
of Humanity

By Mark Clavier
For centuries, hymns have linked Easter with the springtime renewal of life in nature. As you sit in self-isolation with time on your hands, look out your windows, wander around your garden, or trawl through your memories of walks and holidays. What do you see or hear or smell that evokes Easter for you?
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