July 15, 2026

Social media receives a great deal of grief. It’s an easy scapegoat; ubiquitous and unable to really defend itself. What I find deeply ironic is that the grief that it is given is often posted on… social media or other forms of media.

I guess I am of the older generation. For the most part, I only “use” Facebook. I’ll leave it to the younger generations to explore and fully use TikTok, Instagram, and others. Although, I do dabble in Reddit, finding it an amusing stopping place for commentary on those things that interest me. Now that I think of it, I find YouTube incredibly helpful in my personal and professional life.

I don’t want to berate social media for the algorithms that it uses to understand my life and then post something that may be of interest to me. Sometimes something useful pops up on my feed. Recently a Peanuts cartoon popped up. It was of the four-panel variety.

In the first panel, we see Snoopy typing away on a typewriter on his doghouse. Charlie Brown has approached Snoopy and says, “I hear you’re writing a book on theology.” The next panel shows Charlie Brown saying, “I hope you have a good title.” In the next panel Snoopy raises his head thinking, “I have the perfect title…” The last panel cuts out to Snoopy on the typewriter again, typing, “Has It Ever Occurred to You That You Might Be Wrong?”

Count on Snoopy to ask a good question. Which gets me to thinking… Is God somehow using my social media feeds to “gently” tweak and pinch me about how I may be presently thinking?

I have yet to read Snoopy’s book…

Rev. Eric