Communion in a time of COVID-19

“Pastor, I’m really missing communion too,” she said to me. (The ‘too’ is because I had just been grumping about it.) “I’m thinking of making bread at home and gathering my boys around me and just doing it. God won’t refuse to show up, right? We let laypeople baptize in an emergency, don’t we?” Oh …

The Fifth Loaf

I helped to design and lead today's Eucharist service in Marquand Chapel.  Together with some awesome collaborators and a willing congregation, we explored different meals in the gospels at which Jesus broke bread and gave thanks, offering brief homiletic moments about each of them.  This one's mine: On the shores of the Sea of Galilee, …