Tag: easter and covid 19

The nearly nationwide stay-at-home orders will test whether churches can maintain a connection with their communities to draw them back into their doors when it’s safe to do so again — or speed their decline.

But celebrating Easter in our homes does not mean we have to miss out on worship. In fact, this is an opportunity to draw nearer to Easter’s historical roots and to focus on Jesus rather than on church planning and spectacle.

As he live streamed the service last week, he felt the cathedral’s emptiness and quiet, and he’s not optimistic that Easter Sunday will be any less empty.