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    Our Best Shot

    Feb 25, 2021 4 minutes
    BY PHILIP GULLEY
    Illustration by
     
    RYAN SNOOK

    MY QUAKER CONGREGATION has gathered via Zoom for a year now. It has worked out so well, I’m concerned that when we’ve consigned COVID-19 to the dung heap of history, none of us will want to attend in person anymore. Everyone will prefer to sleep in, throw on a respectable shirt at the last minute, and sit at their kitchen tables communing with the Ground of All Being. Our meeting has even started attracting participants from Europe, Asia, and across the United States. All I need now is better hair and 72 teeth as bright as headlights, and I’ll be the Joel Osteen of Quakerism.

    Alas, science has upended

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