{"id":355,"date":"2006-02-13T13:06:01","date_gmt":"2006-02-13T18:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=355"},"modified":"2006-04-05T22:56:04","modified_gmt":"2006-04-06T03:56:04","slug":"instant-communication-and-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=355","title":{"rendered":"Instant communication and religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back on Sunday, February 5, I mentioned the anti-gay hate crime in New Bedford during the worship service in the prayer. I wasn&#8217;t impressed with that prayer, so I tossed it into the file and forgot about it. Then excerpts from that prayer appeared on the <em>Boston Globe<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/articles\/2006\/02\/11\/seeking_answers_about_nature_of_evil\/?page=1\"> Web site<\/a> (thanks for the tip, Stoney). I&#8217;m grateful the reporter did some heavy edits to the prayer, because it reads much better now, but I have no idea where he got the text of that prayer. <\/p>\n<p>All of which raises the issue about how religion is being changed by the communication revolution. What a minister says in a worship service today could wind up on a Web site tomorrow, and from there who knows where those words will spread. I have to admit, I&#8217;m slightly unsettled by this phenomenon. At the same time, it&#8217;s good to be aware of this phenomenon, and to start thinking of it as a fundamental part of the religious landscape.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> Turns out I did give the text to a reporter who called &#8212; I just misunderstood which newspaper he was calling from. Mystery solved: it was just my own lousy memory. Sigh.<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back on Sunday, February 5, I mentioned the anti-gay hate crime in New Bedford during the worship service in the prayer. I wasn&#8217;t impressed with that prayer, so I tossed it into the file and forgot about it. Then excerpts from that prayer appeared on the Boston Globe Web site (thanks for the tip, Stoney). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-and-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}