[1][2][3] There has also been the yearly Theocom symposium since 2012 at Santa Clara University, which has explored topics related to theology and digital communications.
[6] Much of the research on digital theology relates to church communities online.
[9] In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, many churches have needed to implement social distancing measures and make choices to run services online.
However, these decisions were often made quite haphazardly and for practical reasons, as opposed to more considered choices about the implications of digitizing church services.
[10] This has resulted in growing revived discussions around what it means to be a church and what being socially distant and being online does to ecclesiology.