Editorial August 1, 1994 Issue

From domination to dominion—through Christ

Mary Metzner Trammell

"I've got the control!" I can still hear those words resounding through the house, as one or the other of our children was the first to grab the TV remote control after dinner.

Why was it so important to "get the control"? Because with this little gadget in your hand, you—and you alone—could control what everybody in the room watched on television! You could program any channel you wanted to by pressing certain digits. Or you could flip through all the channels and watch everyone else in the room go blink-blink-blink, as you threw one image after another onto the TV screen. If someone wanted to watch a program other than the one you'd chosen, it was (according to the unwritten rules the kids set up for themselves) your decision as to whether you'd grant his or her request. After all, you had the control.

If you went to answer the phone or get a soda, you took the control with you. If you didn't someone else might get the control. Then you'd have to watch the programs that person picked out. And that wasn't any fun.

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