Elizabeth Barber is a journalist based in New York, where she is on the editorial staff of The New Yorker. Her writing on religion and culture has appeared in The New Yorker’s magazine and on its website, and she has previously reported for TIME’s US and Asia editions, as well as for Reuters, The Christian Science Monitor, WIRED, and other publications. She was recently a fellow at Columbia Journalism School and started her journalism career in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Read some of Elizabeth’s reporting during the fellowship year:

• A nun’s journey in the Amazon (The New Yorker | February 17, 2020)

• Keeping calm in Guilderland, New York in the time of the coronavirus (The New Yorker | March 31, 2020)

• The plight of a hospital chaplain during the coronavirus pandemic (The New Yorker | April 14, 2020)

• Will the coronavirus be the end of the communion cup? (The New Yorker | May 24, 2020)