Tag: PRAYER

Update: This post has been updated to reflect information provided to us by the actual designers of Goldie, The Interaction Research Studio. The Poor Clares in York are about as archaic as a religious order can get, with roots dating back to the 13th century and a 145-year-old covenant in northern England. Though the Franciscan nuns have taken a vow of silence, and eat a strict vegetarian ...

The religions of the world have had no choice but to enthusiastically embrace technology. The Dalai Lama is now on Twitter, the same social network that hosted the Passion story for a NYC church, Jews can Tweet prayers to the Western Wall, and there is even a Web service that will do your praying for you. So when Bishop Robert Evens, or Bishop Bob as he's known, was in well-tread territory when he ...

Just because the whole dot-com bubble burst doesn't mean that there aren't new, apparently useless online businesses popping up. The latest is Information Age Prayer, a subscription service with text-to-speech capabilities that lets you pray by proxy using a computer. The premise of the site is that many people are too busy to pray these days, so, for a few bucks, they'll take care of it for ...