A more weighty matter than yesterday…
The Iowa Conference of the United Methodist Church has banned in-person worship until January 10.
No candles for Advent (which starts Sunday). No Christmas caroling. No children’s Christmas program. No Christmas Eve candlelight service. No Epiphany.
Now, I say “no” very loosely here. Live-streamed pastor-led videos can still happen. Theologically, of course, the Christmas story is still there, congregations or no.
But you probably get what I’m saying.
This was posted earlier. I didn’t mean that, as you might tell by the introduction. I’ve re-timed it.