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COVID-19 has shone a light on the millennia-old balance between public and private worship

  • Written by Samuel L. Boyd, Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Boulder
COVID-19 has shone a light on the millennia-old balance between public and private worshipReligious services through Zoom: A pastor conducts online services from the basement of her home in Falls Church, Virginia.Photo by Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images

As religious services went online to protect congregants from the coronavirus, a paradox emerged: Worshipers were connected via the internet to a potentially wide...

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