A dark day in Goshen
by Harvey Chupp, Shipshewana, Ind.
Recently we were informed that the Chicago Tribune would no longer be delivered to our area. I made my usual trek to the Goshen, Ind., library, to devour a week's sports pages to keep up with my beloved Chicago White Sox. On the shelf staring at me was a paper saying that the Tribune would no longer be delivered to Goshen. I took my latest issue of OurFaith Digest and headed for Long John Silver's to soothe my disappointment. When I opened it up, there was a smiling Joe Miller telling me goodbye.
Headlines screamed on the back page, "OurFaith Digest is on the Web!" "Come and See ... Bigger and Better," "The grassroots every-home evangelical Mennonite/Anabaptist Web site!"
Tell that to my 94-year-old mother-in-law, an avid reader who sees the world and the church through the printed page. Tell her to check the Web site, and she will wonder what the spiders are up to now.
Why do I suddenly feel like a Model A Ford? I am asked if I enter a "chat room." No, our whole house is open for conversation. Do I have "MySpace?" I think the space around Shipshewana is pretty good, but I don't claim any of it as mine. Do I "Twitter"? I am twittering a lot lately during these cold, rainy, northern Indiana spring days. Do I check "Craigslist"? Why would I worry about his? I can hardly keep up with mine. Do I have a "Blackberry"? No, but we still have some blueberries that I put on my cereal.
If The Mennonite and Mennonite Weekly Review abandon me, I think I’ll crawl into bed, pull up the covers, pray for the Lord to hurry his return and pray all the junk in cyberspace won't confuse him.
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