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If you have suggestions for articles, poems or songs that have been important to you during this time of pandemic, you can enter them here: Google form.  While we do try to be aware of any misinformation that is being shared, feel free to leave a comment at the bottom of the form if you feel any of our links might be inappropriate. We have not read or viewed everything suggested. 

Here are some of the links suggested by EP Endorsers and friends, in no particular order. 

Written: Entering the Joy of the Resurrection in a Time of Pandemic, In the days of the coronavirus, Prayers for Community in a Time of Pandemic, Thinking about Good Friday during a pandemic, How to handle epidemics as a Christian, The Reality of Covid-19 is Hitting Teens Especially Hard, Why live streaming is not the full answer for churches during COVID-19, Politics of a Plague, Cellphone data shows coronavirus kept churchgoers at home in every state on Easter, In Everything (including coronavirus) Turn Towards Jesus, Churches Should Think Twice Before Webcasting Their Worship Services, Improvising in a Pandemic, Leaving Early. The coronavirus pandemic feels like an unending Holy Saturday, Christianity Offers No Answers About the Coronavirus. It’s Not Supposed To, George Steiner on Holy Saturday, The Shift Americans Must Make to Fight the Coronavirus, Allowing Worship to Continue to be a Sacred Space in the Zoom World, Sacraments, Technology, and Streaming Worship in a Pandemic, Bauerschmidt, Homily , Worship in a Violent World, Being Present to God and Each Other During Zoom Group Gatherings, We Are All Monks Now. 

Podcasts: Analog Church with Jay Kim, On Being, A Poem in Gratitude for Health Care Workers, On Being, Wendell Berry and Ellen Davis.

Videos : The House We Sheltered In, Journey Into Silence, The Pittsburgh Blessing, Christian Ethics Amid Covid-19. 

Other: Pray as you Go App. 

Poems, articles, videos.

One of the ways we will be staying connected until we can gather again is to share things that resonate with us during this time of uncertainty. We’ve begun sharing articles, stories and poems on the web page and through Facebook and Twitter. We continue to share our weekly lectionary reflections. We’d also like to ask for you to suggest links that you’ve seen that were helpful.

If you go to this link: Google drive form you will see a place to enter up to 5 links at a time. Did you see a worship service or sermon that you think others at EP will find encouraging? Please take a second to enter it on the page. If you have more than 5, just submit and you can add more. We’ll be sharing those links on the web page with the Signs of the Times tag, as well as through Facebook and Twitter, and once or twice a month through the newsletter.

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Here’s one recent video we liked:

 

Thoughts for this present age.

We’ve all been adjusting to the changes that have occurred recently as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. Many friends and endorsers of EP have been writing about this experience and how we continue to live out our lives as followers of Christ. Some helpful information may not be explicitly Christian, but may help us navigate the challenges ahead. Links are below. Feel free to leave links to things that you’ve found helpful in the comments and we’ll add them to a resource list. The image is He Qi’s Peace Be Still. Here is a prayer from the Corrymella Community:

 

God of the good news that spreads faster than fear,
God of the courage that comes from the heart:
Be with us as anxieties rise and with us as uncertainty grows.
Be with us when children ask difficult questions,
and with us when parents seem farther away.
Remind us that to be a community does not always mean
to be physically present beside those we know well.
It also can mean being spiritually present
with those who feel very alone;
and that you as our God, the God made flesh,
are also the God who calls us from the tumult
and tells us to be still
and to know that you are God
with us.
Amen.

 

In no particular order: 

In the Days of the Coronavirus   The Very Reverend Barkley Thompson

In Everything (Including Coronavirus) Turn Towards Jesus  Dale Gish

Improvising in a Pandemic  MaryAnn McKibben Dana

The Shift Americans Must Make to Fight the Coronavirus  Meghan O’Rourke

Churches Should Think Twice Before Webcasting Their Worship Services  C. Christopher Smith

Homily for the Third Sunday of Lent: Home Edition (facebook video)  Fritz Bauerschmidt

CORONAVIRUS: God’s Ways Are Not Our Ways (facebook video)  Fr. Richard J. Bozzelli