Cutting Online Church Services Is an Act of Exclusion
<p>Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, some denialist pastors <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/04/america-rightwing-christian-preachers-virus-hoax" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">bucked</a> public health orders and insisted on continuing in-person church services. Soon though, the majority of U.S. churches transitioned gatherings, historically housed in sanctuaries and pews, to a virtual scape. Certainly, many large churches had already mastered video feeds and multisite worship, but now smaller and mainline Protestant churches also adopted video tech and streamed to their congregations. I’ve spoken to church leaders who rue having been late to move online when instead their flocks took to consuming conspiracy theories and YouTube prophets.</p>
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