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Communing With God Via Social Media, Tweets: Sacrilegious or Wise?

The Washington Post — Below is an excerpt from “On Faith,” an Internet feature sponsored by The Washington Post and Newsweek. Each week, more than 50 figures from the world of faith engage in a conversation about an aspect of religion.

This week’s question: Thanks to new digital technologies, you can ‘tweet’ prayers via Twitter to the Western Wall or prayer requests to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. You can pray the rosary or pray the hours from your laptop. You can participate in worship services and discuss holy texts via Facebook. You can create and join faith communities on Second Life. Are social media tools a blessing or a curse for people of faith? Should we use digital technology to commune with the divine? Does God tweet?

Just yesterday, God tweeted me. I was inclined to respond with sarcasm to someone, and suddenly I got a simple three-character message from the Lord: “No!”

That kind of thing happens to me often. Well, not a literal tweeting, of course. But for those of us who believe that God does speak to us today through such vehicles as church teaching, the Bible and conscience, there is nothing really offensive about the idea of getting short and snappy messages from the Divine.

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