https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/15/nothing-will-ever-be-the-same-how-faith-groups-adapted-to-lockdown-in-england
Interesting article and faith groups along with many other community organisations are learning to do things differently. What will be interesting is to see how (or if) the new approach, required in lock-down, perpetuates when things back to normal.
I think some activities lend themselves better to Zoom than others. For example being a choir member it is a nightmare - we now have regular zoom rehearsals, but they aren't really satisfactory as you cannot actually sing together due to the on-line delays.
Going back to faith groups - there is a strong theme in the article that the communal worship and community element is important, and I don't think this is easy to recreate in your living room via zoom. So how satisfactory the approach is to individuals may be down to whether the community aspects, or the faith aspect of their involvement in a religious organisation are more important.
So to give a couple of examples - my mother in law is shielding, but has just had two hip breaks and operations so even if we weren't in lock down she really wouldn't be able to get to church at the moment. I know she's found watching on-line mass comforting, and actually she wouldn't have been able to do this if she'd been house bound while recovering from two operations before the lock-down as there wouldn't have been on-line mass to watch.
Interestingly also - my wife (weekly mass attender) hasn't really engaged in on-line religious activities at all. She plays in a small folk group at one mass on a Sunday and they briefly tried to sort music remotely but without success. Since then she's not had any real engagement - perhaps the community aspect (which is now gone) is more important to her. However she has replaced Sunday mass with a new routine - a weekly Sunday zoom call with old university friends, who up until the lock-down she'd probable only speak to ever few months and see perhaps once a year.
