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Article: Feeling dazed and confused: our most intimate experiences of worship are being transformed by technology.(technology)
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- Presbyterian Record
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- April 1, 2006
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The ability to communicate--readily, at great distances, in robes of light--is so crucial and coveted that in the Bible it is embodied only in angels'. When anyone can transmit any amount of information ... at any time, instantaneously ... the resulting transformation becomes a transfiguration.--GEORGE GILDER
On Feb. 16, 1524, the young Gerald Roussel wrote enthusiastically about his first experience of church innovation in Strasbourg. "They sing a psalm of David or some prayer taken from the New Testament. This is sung by everyone, men and women together in fine harmony, a wonderful thing to see. You must understand that everyone has a music book in his hand. ...