Turn Off, Slow Down, Drop In: The Digital Generation Reinvents the Sabbath
…delivered their premature babies, as they held them for their only hour-and-a-half of life, baptized them, and watched them fade away. It is of course not possible that Adam’s 140-character prayers, pleas, and progress updates came close to expressing the weight of such an experience. And yet, as friends (and “followers”) shared prayers and expressions of compassion, it was clear that this connectedness mattered—the network was a kind of safety…
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