COVID
A New Exilic Period for the Christian Church?
6 min readJun 23, 2021
“Why can’t we just sing hymns like we used to?” a young boy asks his mother in church.
It seems unfair that crowds of people now gather at football matches and sing songs and hug each other when many church congregations are still expected to observe distancing, no gathered singing and walk past holy water stoops which are rapidly filling up with dust.