(RNS) — Even when it’s safe to gather in person again, we will always have hybrid worship programs — robust virtual options that do not treat online members as an afterthought. (RNS) — One of my ...

Church volunteers greet visitors entering the lobby. The worship band begins its set and a pastor offers to pray privately with anyone during the service. When the sermon is done, it’s time for ...

"I agree online church is an intriguing idea to include families and individuals affected by disability," I said, leaning back in my chair. "But I don't think it can work." I spoke those words in 2009 ...

While most regulars are back in-person, pastors are rethinking how to minister to the higher numbers of digital worshipers. It’s been three years since Easter set records for church streaming, with ...

Michael Huerter’s The Hybrid Congregation is an earnest effort to enrich our worship. It is also naive, superficial, incurious, and wrong. This was the title of an essay published 91 years ago by the ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Often when a potential convert walks through the doors of his church, one of the first things the Very Rev. Andreas Blom encourages them to do is give up the thing that brought them ...

(RNS) — With online church, disabled people — including me and my family — were welcomed to church in more ways and more often than ever before. Let’s keep that up. (RNS) — “I agree online church is ...