Is Eucharistic Adoration Really an Idle Retreat from the World? What Interviews with Worshippers Reveal

Catholic Parishes, Interviews, InterviewTool-feature, Ritual & Worship, Theology Frame

What might we see and hear if we asked worshippers about what they experience? It isn’t always what theologians expect. For the past few decades, many Catholic liturgical theologians and others have expressed concern about the return of a ritual practice that they worried signaled a regression from the reforms of the Second Vatican Council.…

COVID-19 Poses New Leadership Challenges

African American Churches, Clergy, Congregational Conflict, Interviews, InterviewTool-feature, Leadership, Mainline & Liberal Protestant Churches, Process Frame, United States & Canada

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused strain on religious organizations and their leaders. They have been challenged to keep members safe, while also contending with the politicization of the pandemic. They have had to develop or strengthen their online presence while often facing declining attendance. Resources of time, money, skill, and diplomacy have been stretched to…