Cell Phone Spirituality

Dear Friends,

Over the past decade, I have watched as all of us became more intimate with the devices we now call iPhones or Cell Phones.  I have watched as we have spent more time on these devices.  Today Americans are on their iPhones an average of five hours a day.  Our lives have changed.  As followers of Jesus, we need to pause and examine how technology is changing us.

In the fourth century, Athanasius wrote, “Jesus became what we are so that we might become who He is.”  We are called to live lives like Jesus.  But Jesus didn’t have a cell phone!  What would he say to us today about these strange devices? Cell phones are not inherently evil.  They are tools to be used.  They give us access to enormous amounts of information and emotion, to beauty and ugliness, to joy and despair.  In order to discern how God might want us to use these new tools, each one of us must awaken to the reality of their increased influence on our lives. We must learn to take control of the relationship.

Join me on Sunday, November 9.  During our worship service, we will be blessing our cell phones.  At the Dean’s Forum, at 9 a.m., we will look deeply into the options that lie before us. How can we nurture a healthy relationship with our cell phones?

God comes with us everywhere, even online.  Let us find out how to harness technology as we strive to become the fullness of who God has called us to be.

In Christ’s love

Kate+