Revisiting the Distanced Church
Digital Religion Publications;Network for New Media, Religion & Digital Culture Studies (2021), 129 pp.
"This eBook provides a follow-up conversation with key contributors from The Distanced Church, published in April 2020, which explored how church leaders were responding and adapting to the need move their traditional services online during the first lockdown of the covid-19 pandemic. Revisiting the Distanced Church offers not only a "then and now" reflection on how pastors and scholar see the evolving relationship between the church and digital media one year later after the global migration of the church online. It also provides a unique look into the long term implications of these technology choices and experimentation on the church, how leaders and scholars are reflecting on the present-future of digital ministry, and the areas in need of further theological reflection due to these changes." (Abstract)
Introduction: Returning to the Distanced Church and Considering the Technological Road Taken / Heidi A Campbell, 7
I. PASTORAL REFLECTIONS ON USING TECHNOLOGY DURING THE PANDEMIC
1 Imagining a New World - Reflections on Ministry After a Year of the Pandemic / Bryony Taylor, 13
2 The Unspectacular Pastor: Drawn and Quartered. Reflecting on My Own Reflection / Stephen Evoy, 18
3 Reflections on Doing Church Ministry Online and AFK (Away from Keyboard) During the Pandemic / David Silverkors, 24
4 A Church that Serves Together, Stays Together / Zach W. Lambert, 30
5 Pandemic as a Time of Discernment: Vocational Reflections in a Digital Space / Joanne Mercer, 35
6 There Is No going Back to Normal - Churches in Germany Dealing with the COVID-19 Pandemic / Ralf Peter Reimann, 39
7 Leading Towards a Change in Church Culture / Troy Shepherd, 43
8 A Zoom for Every Season Under Heaven: Responding to Nandra Perry's Charism of Zoom Church / Sarah Brush, 48
9 Responding to the Charism of Zoom Church / Rev. Danielle Merseles, 52
10 Responding to Some Reflections on Doing Church Online in a Time of Pandemic / Cheri Kroon, 54
11 The Distanced Seminary: Ministerial Formation in a Digital Space / Michael Dormandy, 57
II. SCHOLARS OBSERVATIONS OF PATTERNS AND TRENDS FOUND IN CHURCHES TECHNOLOGY ENGAGEMENT
12 Insights into Church Appropriation and Views of Technology: First Glimpses into Research Findings / Heidi A Campbell and Sophia Osteen, 64
13 World Council of Churches: Drawing the Ecumenical Fellowship Closer in the Time of COVID-19 / Marianne Ejdersten and Susan Kim, 71
14 Churches Online in Times of Corona (CONTOC): First Results / Ilona Nord and Oliver Adam, 77
15 Ecclesia Digitalis: Communicational Reflections on Ecclesial Religious Experience in Times of Pandemic / Moisés Sbardelotto, 87
16 From Distanced Church to Returning Church to Hybrid Church / Stephen Garner, 97
17 Friends in the Cloud / Matthew John Paul Tan, 107
18 Enabling, Extending, Disrupting - The Shift to Online Church / Peter Philips, 110
19 Imagining the Post-Digital Church / Michael J. Paulus, Jr., 118
20 Conclusion: Lessons from Revisiting The Distanced Church / Heidi A Campbell and Sophia Osteen, 123
I. PASTORAL REFLECTIONS ON USING TECHNOLOGY DURING THE PANDEMIC
1 Imagining a New World - Reflections on Ministry After a Year of the Pandemic / Bryony Taylor, 13
2 The Unspectacular Pastor: Drawn and Quartered. Reflecting on My Own Reflection / Stephen Evoy, 18
3 Reflections on Doing Church Ministry Online and AFK (Away from Keyboard) During the Pandemic / David Silverkors, 24
4 A Church that Serves Together, Stays Together / Zach W. Lambert, 30
5 Pandemic as a Time of Discernment: Vocational Reflections in a Digital Space / Joanne Mercer, 35
6 There Is No going Back to Normal - Churches in Germany Dealing with the COVID-19 Pandemic / Ralf Peter Reimann, 39
7 Leading Towards a Change in Church Culture / Troy Shepherd, 43
8 A Zoom for Every Season Under Heaven: Responding to Nandra Perry's Charism of Zoom Church / Sarah Brush, 48
9 Responding to the Charism of Zoom Church / Rev. Danielle Merseles, 52
10 Responding to Some Reflections on Doing Church Online in a Time of Pandemic / Cheri Kroon, 54
11 The Distanced Seminary: Ministerial Formation in a Digital Space / Michael Dormandy, 57
II. SCHOLARS OBSERVATIONS OF PATTERNS AND TRENDS FOUND IN CHURCHES TECHNOLOGY ENGAGEMENT
12 Insights into Church Appropriation and Views of Technology: First Glimpses into Research Findings / Heidi A Campbell and Sophia Osteen, 64
13 World Council of Churches: Drawing the Ecumenical Fellowship Closer in the Time of COVID-19 / Marianne Ejdersten and Susan Kim, 71
14 Churches Online in Times of Corona (CONTOC): First Results / Ilona Nord and Oliver Adam, 77
15 Ecclesia Digitalis: Communicational Reflections on Ecclesial Religious Experience in Times of Pandemic / Moisés Sbardelotto, 87
16 From Distanced Church to Returning Church to Hybrid Church / Stephen Garner, 97
17 Friends in the Cloud / Matthew John Paul Tan, 107
18 Enabling, Extending, Disrupting - The Shift to Online Church / Peter Philips, 110
19 Imagining the Post-Digital Church / Michael J. Paulus, Jr., 118
20 Conclusion: Lessons from Revisiting The Distanced Church / Heidi A Campbell and Sophia Osteen, 123
