Christians have long valued conferences. In the past few decades, as travel has become easier and less expensive, Christians have valued large national conferences where thousands or tens of thousands gather to worship, learn, and fellowship together. The story of the “New Calvinism” could not possibly be told apart from the rise and impact of these events. Yet conferences were among the early casualties of the COVID-19 pandemic. Together for the Gospel, Ligonier Ministries, The Basics, and other major events were forced by local governments to cancel their in-person events, while TGC Women’s opted to postpone for a year. More are sure to follow.
With that in mind, I got in touch with the organizers of many large Christian conferences to ask them about COVID-19 and the future of the Christian conference. I decided to take a “panel” approach—asking each the same questions and sharing their answers verbatim. I decided to keep the answers anonymous, so am not indicating which answers belong to which ministry, but suffice it to say that I spoke with representatives from 7 major conferences associated with Reformed Christianity.
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