Due to the onset of the Covid-19, lots of churches and meetings are exploring alternative ways of being together (often digital). Here’s some resources:
- Quaker Gatherings: best practices and creative explorations. (Facebook group – I am an admin, ask to join and answer the questions!)
Various resources regarding blended gatherings:
- Workshop on gathering virtually – Philadelphia YM and Emily Provance
- Experiments in Meeting for Worship:Plain, Virtual and Blended – Conversation Circle Summary (Quaker Religious Education Collaborative)
- Guidance on gathering virtually – Emily Provance
- Understanding and meeting our needs at online business meeting – David Coletta
- Hybrid Meetings Guide – Newtown PA Monthly Meeting
This resource list is from the conversation: Quakers adapting in new ways – sharing and discussion”
- Discussion Recording
- Friends Meeting at Cambridge Tech Diagram
- Equipment list for Friends Meeting at Cambridge
- Contributions from our small groups in conversation
The New York Times published an op-ed that started some controversy: Why Churches Should Drop Their Online Services
In response to that writing (and earlier) a number of other folks shared their thoughts:
- The Mystical Body of Zoom
- Beyond Hybrid Church: A Digital First Approach
- A response to Tish Harrison Warren about livestreaming worship
- Remote and In-person, it’s all embodied church!
- Quitting online church is abandoning the one for the 99
- Ten Reasons to Keep Online Church
- 13 Reasons to go all-in on online worship
- Why should the Church stay online? Wordle.
- Episcopal team to launch virtual reality church services in metaverse, all avatars welcome
- Hybrid Church – A Way Forward by Rev Tim Schenk
- 7 Reasons you must not abandon your online services
- The Internet is Real
“Blended/Hybrid” Meetings for Worship – online and in-person.
This pandemic and the need for social distancing will most likely require us to remain
distanced, at least significant parts of our communities, for a long time/”new normal”. 
Some Friends are wondering about how we continue to incorporate the gifts technology has given to us in this time while also being in physical spaces. Here’s some resources, all shared with permission.
- The complex futures of blended meetings for worship
- Hybrid Meeting – A Drama
- Is Hybrid Worship Corporate Worship?
- Praying for Zoom Support,” – David Coletta
- Being The Church (blog series) – Emily Provance
- Transitioning to hybrid small groups (UMC)
- Learnings from 2021 Quaker Spring Hybrid Gatherings – David Coletta
- Hybrid Meeting Tech & Setup: Equipment used recently at Friends Meeting at Cambridge (Alasdair Post-Quinn)
- David Coletta and Jen Higgins-Newman | Exploring Hybridity
- Documents with guidance and details from Friends Meeting of San Antonio
- Thoughts on hybrid worship from Quaker Emily Provance
- PYM guidance on reopening
- Post Pandemic Worship Worksheet – Bruce Reyes-Chow
- Things to consider before a beginning hybrid experiment in your meeting (NEYM)
- Birmingham Monthly Meeting Guidance on Re-Opening
- Willistown Monthly Meeting Guidance on Blended Meetings
- Hybrid Church – A Way Forward by Rev Tim Schenk
- 7 Reasons you must not abandon your online services
- About Hybrid Meetings: How they work (PhilYM)
- Equipment Requirements For Blended/Hybrid Meetings – from Concord NH Meeting
Spiritual Reflections:
- The Internet is Real
- 12 Pieces of Advice for Quakers on the Internet (this was written in 2013! How can it possible apply now? Find out!)
- Walking in the Light of Screens
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