
Spring 2022 | Called into the Unknown: Church and Pandemic
Nobody knew, of course. Two years ago, no one knew how long it would last or how bad it would be. As pandemic weeks stretched into months and then years, people of faith felt a special duty—to shore up spiritual resilience wherever they could. They also saw a historic opportunity—to do church differently, think about the meaning of belonging more creatively, and pursue the life of God more courageously. In this Reflections issue, YDS-related writers provide real-time dispatches from the field of community-building, meditations on divine presence in exhausting times, even a fantasia or two on the possible future, that terrain of the unknown that we have the power to imagine and enact.
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Reflections
From the Dean's Desk
I am not a superstitious person, but Friday, March 13th, 2020, haunts me. At two o’clock that afternoon, I met with all of the Divinity School staff to announce that we were going to move the entire Divinity School into a virtual format: classes and operations. We had been moving in that direction for a week and had preparations underway, but this made it official. I closed by reciting the 23rd Psalm, a text that means a great deal to me personally and to millions of others.
Articles in this Issue
From the Editor
Reflections is a publication of Yale Divinity School