Wednesday, August 10, 2005

Worship Unplugged # 31 SMS

"Where r u? Mobile Theology"
was the theme for our recent National Youth Workers Conference [held in partnership with a local Continuing Ed annual event known as Seminar Week] where Kenda Creasy Dean spoke...

Kenda basically took the challenge to lay out what role mobile technology plays in the culture and lives of young people, what claims it makes and comfort or community it offers in order to "do the theology" about what claim or counter claim 'the gospel might make' in such a context... top shelf mostly!!

Colleague Darren Wright led a Closing Worship where parts of the spoken Liturgy and Bible readings were sms'd to participants in parts as an act of switching our mobiles back on at weeks end and bringing the theme to life in our worship...

It was a very clever and vivid praxis!! [action] in worship giving rise to each persons [reflection] as we experienced the worship together!!

SMS Liturgy, instructions, readings and introducing moments...

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