iPrayer
Personally, I would suggest just actually praying, but hey, whatever…
Fair Oaks teen devises prayer app for iPhone
By Hudson Sangree
For eons, people have reached out to the Almighty with prayers and supplications. Soon they might be able to use their iPhones.
Fair Oaks teenager Allen Wright thought up an application for the Apple iPhone called “A Note to God.”
It lets iPhone users send prayers into cyberspace and allows them to read the prayers of others. The messages are stored in a database, and users remain anonymous…
Religious scholars contacted by The Bee on Monday welcomed the concept, although one offered a note of caution.
Religious scholars, eh? Is that scholars who are religious are scholars who study religion?
The Rev. James Murphy, vicar general of the Catholic Diocese of Sacramento, agreed the iPhone app “could be a high-tech form of prayer and an authentic way to express our desires to God.”
“There is in each one of us the need to communicate with the divine and to reach the transcendent,” he said.
But he cautioned would-be users to question their motivations.
“Prayer is direct to God, and God should be the primary motive,” he said. “If the motive is to be seen by others, be careful. There’s a sense in which prayer is private.”
He said whatever the form, prayers are heard. “God will hear it,” he said. “You don’t have to have his e-mail address.”
Darleen Pryds, an expert in medieval religious practices at the Franciscan School of Theology – part of the Graduate Theological Union, in Berkeley – called the app “a brilliant use of technology” that brings to mind the 13th-century bells summoning people to pray.
“This application sounds to me like a call to prayer,” she said. “It creates a community of prayer, and by seeing other people’s prayers, it is a reminder to pray yourself.”
I’d hate to disagree with such distinguished religious scholars, but Jesus was over for dinner last night–oh yeah, we’re that tight–and he uses a Blackberry. So does Big Poppa.
So to anyone planning on writing prayers on their iPhone: it’s not bad per se it’s just that God won’t get them.
Sorry.
at some point my dumb generation is simply not going to be able to think a single thought unless they are typing/texting their stream of consciousness into some sort of electronic technological device
someone needs to invent how to plug IPhones and Blackberries into their brains, and then you won’t actually have to do anything at all – the computer will do your own thinking, praying, talking, texting, etc. for you
I’m currently trying to develop an iWipe application. It doesn’t actually wipe your butt for your but then again, I figure the iPhone apps don’t actually do ANYTHING tangible anyways so I figure I’ll be rolling in the cash shortly.
Expect your ministry to be seeded with *ahem* “dirty” money…
that’s a follow-up to Jake’s failed “iJack”
Hahaha! Too funny guys, both the post and the comments.
Yea, the big mistake with iJack was the inclusion of the Paula White workout video…
(Sorry, I couldn’t help myself.)
I’d like a piece of that anointing!