{"id":16043,"date":"2020-05-20T12:16:38","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T16:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16043"},"modified":"2020-05-20T12:16:38","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T16:16:38","slug":"things-will-never-be-the-same-how-the-pandemic-has-changed-worship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16043","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Things Will Never Be The Same.&#8217; How The Pandemic Has Changed Worship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By\u00a0Tom Gjelten\u00a0 for NPR)<\/p>\n<p>Christian worship in the United States, long characterized by its adherence to tradition, appears to have been significantly altered by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Things will never be the same,&#8221; says Harry Moreaux in Naples, Fla., one of nearly 400 churchgoers who shared with NPR how the pandemic has changed their views of church life and their expectations for worship in the months and years ahead.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love my fellow brothers and sisters in God,&#8221; Moreaux wrote. &#8220;I used to go to many church-related activities like Bible studies and men&#8217;s fellowship. Now we barely communicate by text.&#8221;\u00a0 Continue reading article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/05\/20\/858918339\/things-will-never-be-the-same-how-the-pandemic-has-changed-worship\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3902\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"55\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By\u00a0Tom Gjelten\u00a0 for NPR) Christian worship in the United States, long characterized by its adherence to tradition, appears to have<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-health-issues","category-health-care-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16044,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16043\/revisions\/16044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}