Religious institutions found themselves at the center of the COVID crisis, finding ways to continue to worship while responding to grief More than 570,000 Americans have died from COVID-19.
That’s more deaths than American soldiers lost in World War II, the Korean and the Vietnam wars combined. But pandemics and wars are difficult to weigh against one another.
Wars typically happen far away, and those who go to fight them understand that they may not return. In a pandemic, death comes to our shores, and everyone is enlisted.
It’s a moment in time that has the power to shift our sense of being. As a minister and leader of a congregation fighting on the home front in this battle, I have seen more heartache and loss than any society should