Mix of Technology and Religion

I read a blog post today about a group of people that set up a computer lab for a learning center in Austin, TX. The East Austin Computer Learning Center was set up to help expose children to computers and technology. The part that struck me was that the learning center is housed in the Cristo Rey Catholic Church.

I've normally thought about centers like this as being the sole domain of government institutions. Setting up a center like this in a Catholic church is a wonderful idea. It would be a way to reach out to the community to interact with children, teach and counsel the unemployed, and could help provide the local Catholic grade school with resources for their technology courses.

As the church moves to embrace new technology for evangelization, having centers for teaching people how to use that technology could be beneficial.