Can Technology Be Sacred?

Don’t be confused when you walk into the Esther Greenberg Chapel for worship this Friday at 6:30. I say this because you will find a screen to the side of the bema, next to the ark.  You will not have stumbled on a lecture or a movie. Instead, we will be trying an experiment: Can projecting the words from our liturgy and the lyrics to our music to a wide screen add to the sanctity of the worship service?

You Call This Democracy?

I have been doing my best to track reactions to efforts to reform our health care system. Granted, I have not been able to wade through the thousand-page bill making its way through Congress (and I wonder if any of our congresspeople have either). I want to focus on what is happening at town halls and behind the scenes and draw a depressing conclusion:

Our democracy is seriously wounded.