December 17, 2007 at 9:46 am · Authored by Ewan · Filed under SMS

I’m pleased to see Archbishop Philip Freier in Australia adopting the medium of text. He’s knocked up a text-formatted (i.e. 160 character long) prayer to be sent to (one imagines) his congregation. I wonder if he’s planning on sending out weekly updates? Could be useful for many.

Link: Phone beeping? It might be an SMS from heaven | NEWS.com.au

It might be a text message offering a spiritual solution to life’s little challenges, following the release by Melbourne’s Anglican Archbishop Philip Freier today of a prayer written specially for SMS transmission.

Dr Freier read out the prayer, along with one dedicated to Melbourne, to a crowd of Anglicans and curious onlookers at Federation Square in Melbourne’s CBD.

It was part of his “prayer4melbourne quest” and marked the former Darwin bishop’s first anniversary in the job.

“No-one can accuse the Anglican Church of being behind the times,” the archbishop, who has a blog on the church’s website, told the crowd.

The SMS prayer was displayed on a big screen and Dr Freier encouraged the crowd to type it into their phone and send it on to a friend, with a group of children on stage doing so as an example.