If the Church of England worships online, how can its historic buildings survive? | Simon Jenkins

Congregations have shown great adaptability in the pandemic, and churches could again be at the heart of British life We all know the future. It is online, home delivery, click and collect, view on demand. It is goodbye high street; farewell butcher, baker and Bricklayer’s Arms. But is it also goodbye church? Normally Christmas is bumper season, not just for toyshops and turkey farmers. Three times more Britons – 2.3 million – go to church on Christmas Day than on any normal Sunday. Families who never attend parish church all year don their Sunday best and troop to a carol service. Teenagers party before midnight mass. It is churchgoing’s Black Friday. Related: Church of England gives space for Covid vaccination and testing for up to a year Simon Jenkins is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...
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