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After a couple of inexplicable web browser crashes today, I was heartened to read this<\/a> piece on MSNBC<\/a>, posted yesterday from Associated Press reporter Raphael G. Satter.<\/p>\n

The Rev. Canon David Parrott blessed a symbolic heap of laptops and smart phones on the altar of London’s 17th-century St. Lawrence Jewry church Monday. An effort, he said, to remind the capital’s busy office workers that God’s grace can reach them in many ways.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Invoking God’s blessing on the world around us is nothing new, and a variety of such blessings can be found in the service books of many Christian churches, including the\u00a0Book of Blessings<\/em> of the Roman Ritual, and the Episcopal Church’s\u00a0Book of Occasional Services.<\/em> Such blessings are part of the Christian’s confession of faith that God created the world as good, and redeemed the world in Jesus Christ from within the created order. Given our day-to-day reliance for information and entertainment on laptop and desktop computers, cellular telephones and a host of other devices, I’m frankly surprised that such a public blessing of the gizmos and gadgets didn’t gain media attention earlier!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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