In my last year of high school, I was part of the yearbook team where many fond memories were had.

At the onset of the year, however, our teachers were on “work-to-rule,” meaning no extra-curriculars. The first, and most frequent, question people had for us is whether we could still do a yearbook without sports.

It was a valid question, considering the proliferation of sports in high school culture. But, to us, the answer was obvious:

Of course!

When we sat down to outline the sections, we discovered there is still a lot that goes on in a school beyond sports. in fact, most of those other things are minimized, forgotten or ignored to make space for sports.

The work-to-rule was lifted partway through the year, but sports still didn’t become the dominant theme. The pages of the ignored and forgotten were getting their time in the sun.

As we look to today, we are now answering questions that were only theoretical to ask:

Can you have a church with no buildings or gatherings?
Can you work from home all the time?
Can we ever ignore profits to bring manufacturing back?
Can we still have a functioning society?
What really matters?

It seems that when we eliminate the sacred cows of society, we discover a lot that has been ignored or forgotten.

They are finally getting their time in the sun.