As a religious layperson and a computer novice, I decided to take a university course called Computer Mediated Communications in order to learn how religion has been impacted by the communication revolution incited by the invention of the computer. The breadth of our readings in the course reveals that computer mediated communications (CMCs) now permeate virtually every aspect of modern human culture. From politics to economics to education to social movements to capitalism to the philosophy of technology the tentacles of CMCs appeared ubiquitous. However, as we made our way though the course examining one use after another of CMCs, one major social institution became conspicuous to me by its absence; the institution of religion. Thinking I must have encountered a virgin territory as yet untouched by the computer, I determined to take the occasion of the last assignment of the course to investigate the issue. I would research CMCs in religion generally and CMCs in Christianity specifically.<\/span><\/p>\n Very soon in my research I began to be troubled. Contrary to my expectations of virgin territory, I encountered instead what appeared to be a wholly unmanageable amount of research regarding the topic. Notwithstanding the absence of any focus on religion in my class, it apparently was an issue that was treated frequently in the literature. The fecundity of only one researcher, Heidi Campbell, would require weeks to analyze. My attitude went from \u201cwonder\u201d at how religion and CMCs could be completely overlooked to \u201cwondering\u201d how to make sense of a research field that had been so looked over.<\/p>\n