From the monthly archives:

July 2009

Meanwhile, in Hell…

July 29, 2009

Those kids at Visceral Games just don’t know when to quit, do they? During their showing at E3, publisher EA hired a guerilla marketing company to stage a fake protest outside the convention centre, apparently as Christians upset over the choice of Hell as a game setting, replete with placards reading “Trade in your Playstation [...]

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The power of Crucio compels you!

July 29, 2009

A fluff piece on the Harry Potter Alliance, who follow the ancient moral code laid down for Harry by Professor Dumbledore in the Harry Potter books. This seems more an ethical than religious group, who have donated 13,000 books to the community (Potter, perchance?) and US$15,000 to genocide intervention in Darfur. Their teachings are more [...]

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Anglicans tweet their displeasure

July 28, 2009

Rowan Williams has described the current schism-in-all-but-name as a “two-track” communion, divided by member churches’ views on homosexuality. This lead to Times columninst and blogger Ruth Gledhill to ask tweet “Archbishop of Canterbury admits there are now two styles of being Anglican, two tiers, first and second class. Which r u?” Apparently prolific Anglican tweeter [...]

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Film student sinks to new lows

July 27, 2009

Even lower than studying film in the first place.
The Herald continues its attempt to confuse me, this time with the story of Justin Sisely who, for whatever reason, is looking for two people willing to sell their virginity online. I can only imagine he wants to make a film about it, but what they don’t [...]

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‘Tweeting Wall’? ‘Twestern Wall? ‘Twailing Wall’?

July 24, 2009

T’were awful puns, I know.
Twitter user @TheKotel has established a free service whereby prayers tweeted on his profile will be printed and placed in the Western or ‘Wailing’ Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem. This is by no means an ‘official’ service, and the associated website’s FAQ attributes it to “a young man from [...]

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Downloadable sermons and copyright

July 22, 2009

People have been talking for a while now about the ethics and legality of priests downloading other priests’ sermons off the internet and presenting them in Church.
This article points out that, as the ‘business’ of sermons is spreading the good news of Christ, it seems a bit out of place to assert commercial concerns such [...]

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DexX and damnation

July 12, 2009

James “DexX” Dominguez, a regular commenter and occasional contributor to The Age blog ‘Screen Play’ was given his own weekly column a month or so back. This week’s entry is on Heaven and Hell in videogames.
I like DexX’s style: he writes intelligently and manages not to get into the flame wars and trash-talking the others [...]

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Codex Sinaiticus now online

July 8, 2009

This may only be of interest to Early Christianity geeks like myself, but you can now view the Codex Sinaiticus online. It’s referred to as the “world’s oldest bible” because it’s one of the earliest surviving manuscripts that collected together the books of the New Testament in a form similar to our own, although it [...]

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Obama may have an iPod, but still uses his Blackberry

July 6, 2009

Rumours of Obama using a Zune may have been totally bogus, but that doesn’t mean he’s extended his love of Apple to replacing the treasured BlackBerry with an iPhone.
Obama receives daily prayers to his smartphone from the White House’s “faith director” Joshua DuBois. DuBois is a Pentecostal minister who signed on to the Obama campaign [...]

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Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso… what’s next? E3.

July 2, 2009

That’s sort of a return to the bad part of the cycle. At least as far as jokes are concernced.
The Melbourne Age’s Jason Hill (of ‘Screen Play‘ blog fame) got a chance to talk to developers Visceral Games about their upcoming Dante’s Inferno game at the recent E3, and some new data were revealed.
* creature [...]

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