{"id":10,"date":"2008-04-22T01:34:39","date_gmt":"2008-04-22T08:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/?p=10"},"modified":"2008-04-22T01:35:59","modified_gmt":"2008-04-22T08:35:59","slug":"pray-as-you-go-technology-and-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/2008\/04\/22\/pray-as-you-go-technology-and-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Pray as you go: technology and prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently learned about a great website from a friend who has it set as her home page in her browser. Jesuit Media Initiatives has created <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pray-as-you-go.org\">pray-as-you-go<\/a><\/b>, a daily podcast for a guided prayer time of about ten minutes. I&#8217;ve bookmarked it and now am trying to develop the habit of taking a prayer break from the computer every day. I wish there were an hourly one available!<\/p>\n<p>The Jesuits are good at integrating new media with Christian spirituality. As the JMI website explains:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In many parts of the world&#8230;the development of new media is changing not only the way we communicate, not only our way of life, but the nature of society itself. An often-cited decline in church attendance is, to some extent, part of a decline in attendance in general &#8211; at clubs, concert halls, cinemas, political meetings, elections and even football matches and shopping centres. Fewer and fewer people go out to participate in these activities, as more and more entertainment, services &#8211; and even interaction with others &#8211; becomes accessible via television, internet, cable, CD, DVD, etc. in the home.<\/p>\n<p>Desirable or not &#8211; and irreversible or not &#8211; this trend is, for Jesuits, not something to be afraid of, but an opportunity to be grasped. &#8220;We ought to use these things to the extent that they help us towards our end, and free ourselves from them to the extent that they hinder us from it.&#8221; (<a href=http:\/\/www.nwjesuits.org\/JesuitSpirituality\/Exercises\/SpEx021_031.html>Principle &#038; Foundation, <em>Sp Ex<\/em> 23<\/a>). Ignatius was alive to the cultural changes of his time and oriented the Society to meet the challenges of the age using all the media at its disposal. Jesuits in [the] 21st century&#8230;must make the most of the opportunities provided by these new media and become, in the words of <a href=http:\/\/www.sjweb.info\/jesuits\/gc34_1.cfm>GC34<\/a>, not just &#8220;critical consumers&#8221; but &#8220;critical practitioners of social communication,&#8221; at the service of the Church.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe we can learn something from the Jesuits about how to live well with technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently learned about a great website from a friend who has it set as her home page in her browser. Jesuit Media Initiatives has created pray-as-you-go, a daily podcast for a guided prayer time of about ten minutes. I&#8217;ve bookmarked it and now am trying to develop the habit of taking a prayer break [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}