Nice article.

I was received into the Episcopal church two years ago, shortly before starting to transition. Because “the powers and principalities” revealed what they were with a vengeance in 2016, I started re-reading my Barth and Bonhoeffer, and decided that I needed to leave the agnostic wilderness and re-occupy a standpoint from which I could say “no” with confidence. The Episcopal church provided me with that standpoint, which was based in communal acts of worship. One reason that I did not reconcile with Catholicism — among many others, not the least of which is its attitude toward LGBTQ inclusivity — is that, at least in America, Catholic parishes do NOT take liturgy seriously. At all. And my parish’s way of dealing with COVID-19 was to creatively and beautifully take its love of worship into a new medium. While it is not the same as in-person prayer — how could it be? — it has kept faith in continuity with it. If this is supposed to be “institutional decline” I rather love it.