A globe-crossing consecration
I've said before that celebrating communion via Twitter (to make "a
statement that we're prepared to embrace the technological revolution") seems
like an especially poor use of technology. But Lisa Nichols Hickman brings up a techno-sacramental innovation
that's at least somewhat more compelling: using Skype to commune with
Christians across the globe, especially in isolated and conflict-torn places.
The Conflict Kitchen is a public art project and
restaurant in Pittsburgh that serves only food from countries with which the
U.S. is in conflict. After visiting the restaurant, Nichols Hickman writes
this:
One of the events [the Conflict Kitchen] highlight[s] is
a live
Skype meal between a group of strangers seated at tables in
Pittsburgh and in Tehran. Sharing the same meal and conversation across
seven time zones, strangers became acquainted with each other over broken
bread. Even more importantly, they shared the same hope for peace.
