Nick Dean

ATTENTION: Major social media outlets are finding ways to block the conservative/evangelical viewpoint. Click here for daily electronic delivery of The Stand's Daily Digest - the day's top blogs from AFA. Jordan Chamblee Engage Magazine MORE Among my friends and acquaintances I have seen two distinct camps when it comes to Christmas: the sentimental and the scrooges.

Hosting the holidays this season will be a new experience for many families as pandemic precautions continue to affect our daily lives. For those with relatives who typically travel this time of year, hosting the holidays may mean a Zoom meeting for family—not place settings for dinner. Many who have been hunkered down with family members for the last nine months may be looking to reinvent holiday celebrations as a break from the monotony of the pandemic holding pattern.

Right now, information science professionals, along with most of the rest of the world, are rightly concerned about and focused on COVID-19. Homemade masks have entered our daily wardrobes (when we make the rare journey out). Official forecasters are comparing the pandemic in magnitude to the attack on Pearl Harbor and 9/11. COVID-19 has changed our society in ways large and small and also in ways that may not be apparent in the short term.