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2022 is the third year we are dealing with COVID, and we’re unsure what the future holds. This is troubling for many clergy who are just bouncing back. One thing is certain: As in most professions, normal may never return. The Rev. Mark Schol, 40, a United Methodist minister, believes we will never go back to the churches of the 1940s through the 1990s when Sunday church was the main way to worship. Even before the virus, he saw new trends. “Other ways of expressing faith are emerging,” he said. In July 2020, Schol took on a second church, Community Church of Hoboken, and moved with his wife a…