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By Alan Bentrup
In his blog, Front Yard Church, Alan Bentrup exhorts us to be “front yard people”, to sit regularly in our front yards and communicate with our neighbors and passersby.
By Ken Kroohs
Ken Kroohs compares wearing red during Pentecost to those crew members in the original Star Trek who wore red on away missions. Most of the red-shirted crew died on those missions, while Scripture tells us we are to die (to self) in God’s mission.
By Lisa G. Fischbeck
In our latest blog, Lisa G. Fischbeck imagines how Jesus would be a good Zoom bomber, not a malicious one like the kind that spout epithets, but the kind that might take over our screen with words of love and peace.
With the COVID-19 pandemic came the precipitous end to in-person classes at Episcopal Divinity School at Union Theological Seminary in early March.
By Ken Howard
In our latest blog, Ken Howard posits that we have become pilgrims in search of community. We have all left the building, but we have all left together.
By Linda Buskirk
Linda Buskirk strikes a joyous note as she gives examples of creative communications throughout the Church in response to the pandemic. In our latest blog, she observes that “we’ve always done it that way” is no longer an excuse in these times.
By Ken Howard
The Chinese word for crisis is a combination of the ones for danger and opportunity. We have the opportunity to welcome new parishioners through the magic of online church and Zoom. There is a bit of danger in that there are idiots who like to “zoombomb” meetings. But we cannot discount the opportunity just because there is the possibility of embarrassment.
By Ken Mosesian
In our latest blog, Ken Mosesian brings up questions to consider when thinking about how we should “re-start” the Church.
By Alan Bentrup
In his blog, Evangelism, Connection, and Our New (Virtual) Reality, Alan Bentrup gives us suggestions on how to conduct church services now so that we reach the most people in the best ways possible.
By Annette Buchanan
You might say that “Those dratted televangelists make a mockery of religion!” Maybe, but they have to have done something right to be around for so long. In our latest blog, Annette Buchanan looks at what we might borrow from them to help our own ministries.