Over the past 18 months, it’s been common to hear refrains of “it’s good to be back” and “I’m glad we’re getting back to normal” in churches around the country. With pandemic-era restrictions easing and more churches returning to in-person worship as the risk of COVID-19 infection decreases, most churches are resuming pre-2020 gathering patterns.
This “new normal,” as a recent report in the Hartford Institute’s
