Spring 2022 | “Called into the Unknown”: Church and Pandemic - Introduction and Cover Photo

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.

Cover photo by Jr Korpa/Unsplash