‘The agora is online now’
A network map—often used to visually describe how computers connect to the internet—offers a glimpse of how church has changed in 2020. Graphic: Matthew Townsend with Stockio.com art
Some church leaders say that, alongside all the suffering the pandemic has caused, it has also opened up a vast new opportunity for the church to speak to the world and, potentially, to grow...
The Rev. Anna Greenwood-Lee, rector of St. Laurence Anglican Church in the diocese of Calgary and bishop-elect, since Sept. 26, of the diocese of British Columbia, says the internet has become the real “front door” of the church.
“People never walk into our church without having done extensive work on our website,” she says. “People who are church-shopping go on our website and listen to the sermons as part of how they decide whether or not they’re interested in coming. And I think the church just needs to know that. It’s just a reality.”
Read Tali Folkins' article at anglicanjournal.com