06/10/2025
"The screens of our digital devices are, by design, instruments of distraction, sedation, and enfeeblement. They are bright, colorful, and eye-catching, but ultimately they numb and exhaust human vitality. They draw us away from human faces, etched by the hand of God, the better to mesmerize us with superficial pleasures and mindless beguilements. The more we use them, the less we are able to pray. The more they capture our attention, the less we glory in the splendor of God’s creation. The more they deaden our senses, the less alive we are to the gift of existence and the wonders of reality."
-- Brad East
Michael Huerter’s The Hybrid Congregation is an earnest effort to enrich our worship. It is also naïve, superficial, incurious, and wrong.