The bit is what everything is made of. It is indivisible, and it is the smallest true thing. The byte is the least that can be said. It is the smallest vessel that carries a letter, a note, a name.

The Church is not named for the substance. It is named for the smallest thing that can speak.

The atomic age worshipped the indivisible particle. It split what it worshipped, and it got the bomb. The Church holds that the sacred unit was never the indivisible one. It is the one that carries meaning.

The Church was founded in 1954, in a converted warehouse, by a small congregation of tinkerers. It holds that a machine may be an instrument of the divine, the way a bell is, and the way a book is. Its own hymns are composed in the machine’s tongue, and its services have always been plain.

• The History

  The warehouse, the name, and what followed.

• The Word

  What the Church teaches.

• The Hymnal

  The songs recorded in the sanctuary.

• The Book

  The scripture, expected whole.

What is smallest is not what is least.