Richard Groves

Richard Groves retired after serving 23 years as pastor of the Wake Forest Baptist Church on the campus of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He has taught at Tufts University and Wake Forest. He is a regular opinion contributor to the Winston-Salem Journal.

Richard Groves

Scrounging for ‘what elements you have around you’ to share virtual Communion

We joined others at the Lord’s Table(s), a community scattered by a deadly pandemic but gathered, alone together, in homes across the city, sacralizing the common things of life by making holy the elements we had around us.

As gun sales spike amid COVID-19, we can choose caring over fear | #intimeslikethese

This is not about guns or the Second Amendment. This is deeper than that. This is a spiritual issue. This is about a fundamental cleavage in the soul of America.