It’s been over a quarter-century since the fall of the Berlin Wall, but God has not returned to east Germany. Protestant churches, getting worried about the declining popularity of Christianity, have come up with a plan. Spiritual advising couldn’t bring people back, but maybe free Wi-Fi will.  In honor of the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s Reformation, all churches in the former East Germany—starting with about 220 in Berlin, and rolling out to over 3,000 in total—will offer free Wi-Fi (“Godspots”) to guests. The hope is that it’ll show that churches aren’t just for sermons and bells, but also “a gathering place for communication,” says spokesperson Christoph Heil. The Reformation itself wouldn’t have happened without the printing press, so why can’t free internet have a similar effect?

This is actually a pretty cool idea. The “Godspots” plan taps into one very German-specific issue: the widespread lack of free public WiFi, especially relative to how developed Germany is. In the country, a certain law designed to protect intellectual property makes network providers responsible for any illegal activity, like pirating, that happens on their network. (This is kind of like the opposite of the DMCA rules that protect websites from being responsible for what goes on with them.)