The gift of welcome

6 stories of vocations interrupted by the pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic changed work for many. But a more expansive theology of vocation reminds us that God calls us always.

My colleague Jane and I met over Zoom with a congregational leader in Brooklyn, New York a few months into the COVID-19 pandemic. Tears flowed as the woman shared stories of parishioners moving away from the city, being unable to host the programs they’d planned, and wondering what the congregation would look like post-pandemic. Heaviness lingered across the ether.

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