Ernie Chambers still remembers the first time a new technology changed the way he experienced a church service. Chambers was six years old in 1939, when his father discovered the family could listen to pastors in faraway Dallas on their new radio, a battery-powered, toaster-size device ordered from a department store catalog. Instead of sitting through one Sunday morning church service, now Chambers had to get through two—the first in person, the second once his family returned home to their isolated farmhouse outside of Meridian and his father flipped on the radio. “By then, I just wanted to go outside and play,” Chambers recalls.Eighty-four years later, Chambers, now a ninety-year-old grandfather, found himself struggling to sit through a different church service that had been upended…
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