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Reflections on Family, Fellowship & Sustenance for the Soul

In a recent article in Christianity Today titled “Confessions of a Loner,” Sophia Lee writes of her search for community within the church. She and her husband married at the beginning of the pandemic. Guests “attended” via Zoom, and when the laptop closed, the couple feasted on sushi delivered via Uber Eats. Lee didn’t particularly mind. The marriage was about them, right? They saved thousands, and who cared how they got married?

As newlyweds, Lee and her husband attended church services digitally for a year. Finally, in-person church resumed, but Lee found she “had gotten comfortable living a self-contained, self-gazing life. Navigating 58 minutes of freeways to meet a friend...