"Saturday afternoon in the august main sanctuary of the Highland Park United Methodist Church, the pews were filled with a number of pari-mutuel gamblers making private deals with God. They'd pray it out on Sunday morning, if he'd let them sneak a peek on Saturday night.
Dallas Symphony Orchestra maestro J-- van Z-- stepped to the altar and raised his baton to lead DSO musicians in the prelude for the wedding of K-- S-- to T-- K--. At that exact same moment, the horses were being loaded into the starting gate at the Kentucky Derby. Throughout the church, iPhones discreetly appeared as wedding guests followed the race.
Before the last notes of Vivaldi's 'Gloria in Excelsis,' the word was being whispered through the crowd: "Animal Kingdom -- paid $43.80."
That's just so wrong. Unplug for crying out loud... you're at a wedding! In a church!
The writer's tone suggests that he knows, as certainly as did those discreetly hooked to their iVs, that smartphones don't belong in church. Race results / email / facebook can wait.
I'm just saying...
2 comments:
And I'm just agreeing.
I agree to but I do have to tell you that we were in Stake Conference a few weeks ago and I didn't know the hymn we were singing and there weren't anymore hymn books so Ryan downloaded the hymns and scriptures onto my phone. The church has an app with all the manuals and everything that you can put on your phone. It's been really handy. So I guess I have to confess that I iworship but it's more in the literal sense. :)
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