{"id":54998,"date":"2021-03-22T19:04:44","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T00:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=54998"},"modified":"2021-03-27T07:41:12","modified_gmt":"2021-03-27T12:41:12","slug":"what-if-they-dont-come-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/22\/what-if-they-dont-come-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Instead of going back, can we press forward?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is sobering. We all know that young people are disaffiliating from organized religion. In <em>OSV Talks, <\/em>Dan Celluci takes on &#8220;What If They Don&#8217;t Come Back?&#8221; Cellucia asks whether the Covid pandemic is bringing about within two years what might otherwise have taken 10.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VzFrBWBYKbw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Celluci doesn&#8217;t get stuck in negativity, though. &#8220;What if?,&#8221; he asks. He sees tremendous opportunities lie before us. and says that we don\u2019t want to go back to normal. Normal was a 30-year sacramental freefall! What if we don\u2019t go back, he asks. 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