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“Hybrid Church”? Pt. 2 with John Mason Lock

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Episosde 54 • 17th June 2021 • The Living Church Podcast • The Living Church

Live streaming and worship. Zoom and Bible study. Outreach and TikTok. For the average congregation, we used to think, never any of these twains shall meet. Now, if you work at a church, you’d better be on your iPhone and Facebook game. And, if you’re ordained, you had better know how to use a tripod.

Right?

A couple of weeks ago we started a series on “Hybrid church.” What is hybrid church, should we embrace it, is it theologically sound in part or in whole, who seems to be responding to it? Which technologies might work best for certain contexts, and how?

Today we talk to someone whose journey might be helpful to other digital ministry skeptics.

The Rev. John Mason Lock is rector of Trinity Episcopal Church in Red Bank, New Jersey, and he is passionately committed to traditional Anglican worship and liturgy, with a particular respect for the 1662 Book of Common Prayer.

And this is his story, his words of advice for rectors and other church leaders on how and why to adopt digital techniques for ministry today. And we also get his theological take on why it might be good still to keep the side-eye on all this hybrid stuff, so our tendency to avoid the challenges of embodied experience doesn’t get out of control.

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Amber D. Noel, M.Div., directs the public-facing programs of The Living Church, including the podcast, events, and the Partner program. Outside of work, she is a writer and enjoys life in Atlanta.

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