There is a lot of talk in the general culture about the ‘new normal’ in society. Will city centres, tourism, flying, mass sports events ever go back to what they were? What about universities and schools? Will we become a less engaged society – permanently afraid of other human beings, except when they exist in avatar form on the Internet? And what about the church? What will the PC (Post-Covid) church be like?
Like the rest of society we have experienced negatives and positives out of this crisis. Sometimes we think that we are not like the rest of society, but the wider cultural trends tend to invade the church far more than we think – especially if the church has already been mirroring those trends. There are particular aspects of the ‘new normal’ which will I think be widely reflected in the church.
When we changed to online church – there were those who immediately hated it, there were others who loved it and saw it as the future and many I think just went along and hoped it would not be for too long.
The death of a magazine: a sad sign of the decline of the Church of Scotland?
It is always sad when people lose their jobs. It is even sadder when it is journalists, editors and staff …