Ask Yahweh

Ask Siri, or Alexa, if you must. But don't forget to ask Yahweh -- YHWH, for short -- because Yahweh gives good advice and is never wrong!

Some of those of a certain age in your congregation will remember the days when "research" involved heading down to the local library, scouring the card catalog (which had actual paper cards), and searching by topic, author or title. We might have needed to do a search in the Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, or pull a reference book off the shelf to find the answer to a particular question or problem. Perhaps we had to ask the librarian for some help to get the information we needed.

The advent of the personal computer and the Internet changed all that, and now "Googling" a question is a quick way to get an answer. In fact, it's the first step for most. But even this involves physically typing some words on a keyboard and, well, in an age when information comes at us fast and furious, who has time for that?

These days, all we need to do is to punch one button and ask the robotic assistant in our pocket-sized smartphones to probe the questions of the universe.

And not only can we ...