The Bugkalot demonstrate an intense desire for and fascinations about modern things such as televisions and cell phones even when electricity current and cellular signals are lacking in the area they live, and they are willing to sell their land to the settlers, to squander their hard-earned money or to embezzle barangay fund to obtain these things. The missionaries of the New Tribes Mission do not only condemn such desires and practices as economic irrationalities but also regard them as a form of "idolatry". The Protestant missionaries find the power modern things seem to exercise on the Bugkalot disturbing because it challenges their attempt at removing fetishes and idols and inserting iconoclasm among the Bugkalot through their proselytizing efforts. In their opinions, modern things motivate "backsliding" and lead to corruption of faith by enticing the Bugkalot to indulge in worldly pleasures and dangerous fantasies. Cell phones are particularly charged with abetting infidelity. Cell phones enable new forms of connection while also raising profound ethical questions. This article aims to understand how faith, spirituality, and technology co-evolve in a rapidly changing world by analyzing why cell phones came to assert such power over the Bugkalot and how their agencies unsettle the Protestant configuration of the relationship between spirituality and materiality.