Yesterday was Palm Sunday, the start of the Christian "Holy Week" leading up to Easter Sunday, and an interfaith group of religious leaders want you to step away from your screens for the next seven days. "How can you hear the voice of God with the TV on so loud?" asks the So We Might See coalition.

The group, which includes the National Council of Churches, the US Catholic Conference of Bishops, and the Islamic Society of North America, is holding a "media fast" during this Holy Week. They want people to step away from smartphones, TVs, laptops, desktops, and e-readers for a week to take a "media fast"—a peculiarly modern Lenten discipline.

A top United Church of Christ minister, Jim Antal, encourages people "to enter into the 'brave old world' of unmediated connection with one another, with God’s creation, and with the God of many names." To that end, So We Might See has compiled a list of 101 screen-free activities that range form canning produce to building a wooden flower box.

Screen-Free Week taps into a growing concern that wired individuals simply have too much screen time in their lives—and that it's damaging to our relationships with those who live closest to us. This was the theme of recent (secular) books like Hamlet's BlackBerry and others; religious groups add that screen time might be hampering our connections with God, too.

As the Pope put it in his Palm Sunday sermon yesterday: "Technology can't replace God." But it can apparently drown him out.