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This Tweek in Religital

October 1, 2011

It’s been a long Hellatus (sorry, Supernatural fans), but I’ve been active on Twitter that whole time. Surprise I’ve decided that a good way to keep content on the blog might be to round-up the week’s tweets in a blog post (which then gets re-tweeted. Ha-HA!). Here goes: * Wikipedia Bans Church of Scientology | Wired.com [...]

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#romancatholics

February 28, 2011

Not content with revealing his previously secret love for Tupac and Biggie Smalls, the Pope has provided an official satement on social media and he initially has favourable things to say. this dynamic has contributed to a new appreciation of communication itself, which is seen first of all as dialogue, exchange, solidarity and the creation [...]

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iConfess: this is not a Spiritual Exercise

February 11, 2011

By now Google’s bots have crawled, indexed and cached all over this story – allow me to join in the echo-chamber that is the intertubes: the Catholic Church has for the first time approved an iPhone/iPad app called ‘Confession‘ that helps guide worshippers through, well, confession. This comes in the wake of Pope Benedict XVI [...]

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Coptic Orthodox churches turn up on website’s hitlist

January 6, 2011

A list of Coptic Orthodox churches has been unearthed on a Muslim extremist website, including the Alexandrian church that was attacked on New Year’s Day. Some of the other churches on the list have stepped up security in preparation for the Feast of the Epiphany on the 6th. In Holland several nearby Muslim communities have [...]

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New Jersey pastor claims Facebook leads to adultery (and he should know)

January 2, 2011

This is actually the tail-end of a story that played out in the press over November, involving one Cedric Miller of the Living Word Christian Fellowship Church in Neptune who ordered 50 male church officials to delete their Facebook accounts or resign from their roles, and encouraged the congregation to do the same. This was [...]

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Google Earth and religion

December 31, 2010

Google Earth was in the news regarding religion twice recently. The first story concerns the discovery via satellite photo that a prominent Star of David exists on Iran Air’s main building. My first thought was that it was just a geometric symbol, and also one that is prominent in Islam as its artistic tradition praised [...]

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WikiLeaks and religion

December 29, 2010

Here are a few views on what the WikiLeaks dump means for religions the world over. Obviously they focus on diplomatic relations, so we really only see Islam and Christianity represented here. Muqtedar Khan ‘WikiLeaks exposes Muslim nations’ hypocrisy‘, Washington Post (28/11/10) Reuters ‘Scathing U.S. view of French unrest and Muslim integration in WikiLeaks‘, Faith [...]

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Round-up Deux

November 29, 2010

*deep breath* Okay, here’s the rest: ‘Muslims Target TV/Internet Evangelist for Death‘, ChristianNewsWire (14/10/10) Reuters ‘Dead Sea scrolls going digital on Internet‘, FaithWorld (19/10/10) Reuters ‘Bible.com investor sues company for lack of profit‘, FaithWorld (20/10/10) Bob Allen ‘Sheriff’s office settles lawsuit with former church member outed for blog‘, Associated Baptist Press (21/10/10) Heidi Campbell ‘New [...]

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Links round-up

November 28, 2010

Trying to clear a bottleneck of stories I haven’t posted on. Mea maxima culpa. Heidi Campbell ‘Can an online community be a church ? IRS says “No”!‘, When Religion Meets New Media (24/8/10) Joshua M. Z. Stanton ‘Cyber Dialogue: The Future of Inter-Religious Engagement‘, Patheos (6/9/10) Eli Yishai ‘Shas minister shuts down online payments on [...]

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Queensland University of Technology lawyer back at work after Bible and Qur’an burning

September 24, 2010

Presumably in honour of ‘Burn a Koran Day’ on the 11th of September QUT employee Alex Stewart, who works in the university’s legal services department, posted a video to YouTube (since removed) that featured him rolling ‘joints’ with pages from the Qur’an, then the Bible. Stewart started to suspect things may have gotten out of [...]

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