From the monthly archives:

December 2008

Italian priests find excuse to use iPhones during sermons

December 23, 2008

Padre Paolo Padrini has teamed up with programmer and Hip-Hop enthusiast Dimitri Giani to create the iBreviary, an iPhone app that contains the Roman Catholic prayer breviary so priests don’t need to carry around those cumbersome books any more. I mean, have you seen a Bible recently? Those things are heavy! English priests be warned, [...]

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Dante May Cry

December 15, 2008

I’ve just heard about a videogame ‘based on’ Dante’s Inferno. You can watch the hilarious trailer here. My favourite bit is at the end when the protagonist – possibly meant to be Dante considering his crazy head-gear, but unrecognisable due to his rippling muscles and cold, glowing eyes – beats a zombie with a crucifix [...]

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iSlam

December 12, 2008

That was the best pun-tacular headline I could come up with. The usual apologies to all. Finnish Muslim social site Muxlim has created a virtual world, Muxlim Pal, which is currently in open beta. Muxlim chief executive Mohamed El-Fatatry said this world is primarily for Muslims in western countries, for whom expressing their religious selves [...]

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Shiva when you kiss me, Shiva all through the night

December 12, 2008

I’m sure I’ve heard of this before, but a brief note in this article in the Washington Post on inter-caste marrying in India reminded me. Apparently many Indian dating sites allow you to specify particulars such as caste and skin colour. I’m just trying to imagine what the reaction would be if we had such [...]

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Muslims for Moses?

December 7, 2008

Sorry, I couldn’t resist. I was going to call it Jews for Jihads, but the whole Jews for Jesus thing is that they’re Christians pretending to be Jews, so I had to get the relationship right. Dr. Ofer Grosbard, a lecturer in counselling at the University of Haifa has responded to requests from his Bedouin [...]

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