A Return to Normalcy

Mickey Connolly’s latest blog post on Church Development encourages Pastors to maintain unity and patient endurance as churches continue to cope with and hopefully even thrive during the pandemic, returning in some ways to “normalcy” yet acknowledging that this isn’t a “one size fits all” season.

In his 1920 presidential candidacy, Warren G. Harding coined the campaign slogan “a return to normalcy.” The idea was to allow the country to get back to the place it was before World War One. Although hardly the same as recovering from a world war, I think I can speak for all of us when I say we long for a “return to normalcy” for our Sunday morning meetings from our very abnormal experiences because of COVID–19.