Sermons are going high-tech at a church where the pastor encourages members to ask him questions via text message.

A few churches here, and others across the country, are beginning to allow their members to send text messages to the pastor – even during his sermon – that might answer some burning question of the day or maybe even change the course of the pastor’s prepared remarks.

In a story for Tuesday’s Post-Dispatch, we learn that the Morning Star Church in St. Charles County has been dabbling in just such 21st Century communication during their services. Rev. Mike Schreiner said of the…

Ttrying to stem the damage to his presidential campaign, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama confronted racial divisions and the uproar over his pastor’s incendiary sermons.

On Tuesday, Obama rejected some of the pastor’s statements, but he says black anger still persists over injustice in America and whites shouldn’t be surprised that it bursts out in sermons.

Denouncing Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s comments as he has before, Obama attributed them to a bitterness he said hurts the black community. But, he added, “the anger is real; it is powerful; and to simply wish it away.

In today’s story, Obama defended his longtime spiritual mentor, saying that the…