We Exclusive Brethren have some difficulties with technology. We don't like cellphones, we believe iPods to be an instrument of Satan and we have yet to decide whether the Segway can be used in accordance with the Book of Leviticus. We keep a long and growing list of heretical gizmos, which includes: tamagotchi, Sega Mega Drives, robot dogs, theremins, anything made by Moulinex, laser death-rays, stereo and electric guitars. There is not much that buzzes or glows which we would accept.

Fortunately for you, we are relaxing our views about electronic computational devices; otherwise we would not be able to bring you these messages and such inspiring songs of praise as Depeche Mode's "John the Revelator." But, on the whole, we tend to think new-fangled gadgets to be a bad thing.

Then we read about some research being done by atheists (by which we mean scientists) at Duke University. It seems these clever but Godless boffins are working on a "cloak of invisibility,' a thing which will conceal objects from prying eyes. We quivered in anticipation at the thought of such a device. With it we could make our meeting houses invisible, so nobody would be able to find us. Better still, if we made ourselves invisible, we could go about our vitally important work in the community without fear of criticism by infidels.

Regrettably, Duke University is a Methodist institution, run by heretics and purveyors of False Doctrine, so the device may fall into the wrong hands. Worse still, it may fall into Error.