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At the start of the pandemic, religious congregations across America had to close

their doors and follow social distancing guidelines. And naturally something else became the new norm.

Live streaming.

But six months into this sort of new weird way of life,

how are religious communities and their leaders doing when it comes to the world of digital?

Joining me with this story is a reporter Rebecca Hilewell.

Hey Rebecca, hey, how are you?

So just tell me what got you interested in this in the first place?

Yeah, so I was thinking about all the different things that had changed in people's lives since the start of the pandemic.

And one of them that I think for a lot of Americans is religious communities.

Obviously this has been somewhat of a contentious issue and people that were used to

going to buildings and having their religious community in their buildings and suddenly a lot of people either can't go to their

Religious communities or don't want to because they're you know scared of getting COVID and that's forced a lot of the

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