The Church and Covid

At a minimum, the church is guilty of caesaropapism during Covid. The church let itself become “non-essential.” Click on image for detailed record.

book cover image and hyperlink for: The Pandemic and the People of God: Cultural Impacts and Pastoral Responses by Gerald A. Arbuckle October 2021, Orbis
book cover image and hyperlink for: Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda by Megan Basham July 2024, Broadside Books
book cover image and hyperlink for: Holy Communion in Contagious Times: Celebrating the Eucharist in the Everyday and Online Worlds by Richard A. Burridge January 2022, Cascade Books
book cover image and hyperlink for: God vs. Government: Taking a Biblical Stand When Christ and Compliance Collide by  Nathan Busenitz and James Coates March 2022, Harvest House Publishers
book cover image and hyperlink for: A Call to the Church in the Pandemic by David Campbell January 2021, Ettrick Press
book cover image and hyperlink for: Ecclesiology for a Digital Church: Theological Reflections on a New Normal by Heidi A. Campbell and John Dyer February 2022, SCM Press
book cover image and hyperlink for: Resisting Tyranny: Covid, the Church, and Christian Duty by Tim Cantrell April 2022, Kress Christian Publications
book cover image and hyperlink for: The Perpetual Pivot: Ministry in the Pandemic and Beyond by Susan Cartmell and Peggy O'Connor December 2023, Wipf & Stock
book cover image and hyperlink for: New Zealand Churches Respond to the Covid-19 Protection Framework by Miryam Clough March 2025, Routledge
book cover image and hyperlink for: An Epidemic among My People: Religion, Politics, and Covid-19 in the United States edited by Paul Djupe and Amanda Friesen January 2023, Temple University Press
book cover image and hyperlink for: Church, State and Disease: In Light of Scripture and Common Sense by Kerry Duke 2021, Tennessee Bible College
book cover image and hyperlink for: We Shall Be Changed: Questions for the Post-Pandemic Church edited by Mark D. W. Edington October 2020, Church Publishing
book cover image and hyperlink for: Between Pandemonium and Pandemethics: Responses to Covid-19 in Theology and Religions edited by Dorothea Erbele-Küster and Volker Küster May 2022, Evangelische Verlagsanstalt
book cover image and hyperlink for: Caesar and the Church: A Biblical Study of Government and the Church by Anthony Forsyth January 2022, Kress Biblical Resources
book cover image and hyperlink for: A House Divided: Technology, Worship, and Healing the Church After Covid by Benjamin D. Giffone April 2025, Libertarian Christian Institute Press
book cover image and hyperlink for: Corona of Thorns? or Corona of Life? Changing Church in the Covid Context edited by  Francis Gonsalves and Vinod Victor 2020, Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
book cover image and hyperlink for: Liturgical Lockdown: Covid and the Absence of the Laity: A New Zealand Perspective by J. P. Grayland December 2021, Te Hepara Pai
book cover image and hyperlink for: Can We Zoom into God? by Andrew Hemingway October 2023, Resource Publications
Book cover image for Essential Service by Chris Hume
book cover image and hyperlink for: On Distance, Belonging, Isolation and the Quarantined Church of Today by Pablo Irizar February 2022, Bloomsbury Academic
book cover image and hyperlink for: Days of Pestilence: The Covid Pandemic by Robert S. Jordan February 2024, HigherLife Publishing
book cover image and hyperlink for: Pandemic Reflections: Saint Francis and the Lepers Catch Up With Covid edited by Geoffrey Karabin September 2023, Ethics International
book cover image and hyperlink for: Christianity and Covid-19: Pathways for Faith edited by Chammah J. Kaunda, et al September 2023, Routledge
book cover image and hyperlink for: Come Again to the Circle: 40 Leaders Imagine the Church Beyond Covid by William B. Kincaid November 2022, Wipf and Stock
book cover image and hyperlink for: Contagious Faith: Why the Church Must Spread Hope, Not Fear in a Pandemic by Philip F. Lawler April 2021, Crisis Publications
book cover image and hyperlink for: Justice Matters: Spiritual Care and Pastoral Theological Imaginations in Times of the Covid-19 Pandemic edited by Kyungsig Samuel Lee and Danjuma G. Gibson September 2022, Routledge
book cover image and hyperlink for: The Post-Covid Church Effect: Is the Church in Survival Mode After the 'Plandemic? by Morné Lötter May 2025, independently published
book cover image and hyperlink for: Surviving the Pandemic: The Post Covid-19 Church by Eric Tate Martin February 2024, Trilogy Christian Publishing
book cover image and hyperlink for: Covid-19, End Times Hysteria and the Christian Church: How Conspiracy Theories Are Destroying the Credibility of the Prophetic Movement by Eddie Massey July 2020, independently published
book cover image and hyperlink for: The Church in Sickness and in Health edited by Charlotte Methuen and Andrew Spicer October 2022, Cambridge University Press
book cover image and hyperlink for: Orthodox Christianity and the Covid-19 Pandemic edited by Tornike Metreveli November 2023, Routledge
book cover image and hyperlink for: Faith Amid the Covid-19 Crisis: The Effect of Pandemics on the Church and Christian Faith by Claudette E. Miller May 2023, The Legacy Project
book cover image and hyperlink for: Seeing the Pandemic with Eyes of Faith: Seven Prophets for Our Times by Ivano Millico February 2021, Catholic Truth Society
book cover image and hyperlink for: From Flourishing to Languishing: Considering the Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Churches and Clergy by Davies Mpinga May 2025, independently published
book cover image and hyperlink for: Letters from the Pandemic by Gerald O'Collins June 2022, Connor Court
book cover image and hyperlink for: Challenges that Clergy in Small Black Churches Face in the 21st Century During the Covid Pandemic by Samuel Paul July 2024, independently published
book cover image and hyperlink for: Coronavirus and Christ by John Piper April 2020, Crossway
book cover image and hyperlink for: The 95 Theses of Covid and Church: An Open Letter by James Ramelli October 2021, independently published
book cover image and hyperlink for: More than Covid: What the Pandemic Has Exposed in Church and Society by M. van Reenen March 2022, Christian Heritage
book cover image and hyperlink for: Resisting Tyranny: A Christian Response to Government Overreach by Tobias Riemenschneider May 2023, Ezra Press
book cover image and hyperlink for: Church After the Corona Pandemic: Consequences for Worship and Theology by Kyle K. Schiefelbein-Guerrero March 2023, Springer
book cover image and hyperlink for: Church in the Time of Covid: Reflections on a Tumultuous Year by Patricia Templeton July 2024, independently published
book cover image and hyperlink for: Covid and the Church: A Look at Church Attendance in Pre- and Post-Covid with an Analysis on the Survival of the American Church by Greg Turley June 2025, independently published
book cover image and hyperlink for: Worship and Witness in Crisis: Has the Church Failed the Covid Test? edited by Matthew A. Vogan and Matthew J. Hyde January 2021, Ettrick Press
book cover image and hyperlink for: Let No One Fear Death: Orthodox Christian Leaders Respond to the Covid-19 Challenge edited by Alexander F.C. Webster and Peter Alban Heers June 2022, Uncut Mountain Press
book cover image and hyperlink for: The Church and Covid by James G. Whitelaw July 2021, independently published