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Christianity

Holy water on tap

February 28, 2010

Enterprising Italian inventor Luciano Marabese has developed an automatic holy water dispenser to be used until fears of Swine Flu (the H1N1 Virus) have abated. Many churches, including Milan’s cathedral, had suspended use of their holy water fonts following 15 deaths in the nation, so Marabese has been inundated with orders for the device. I [...]

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The other kind of Halo

February 21, 2010

Returning from an Xbox 360-enforced hiatus (having gotten one just after Christmas), it’s entirely appropriate I finally post the following story (and no, it’s not about alien religions in Mass Effect). Aaron Linne from Christian company LifeWay has developed a multimedia Bible app for the Xbox 360: Bible Navigator X. The move from printed to [...]

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Expressing Free Market Parables Since 2009

December 16, 2009

Some of you may have already heard about Conservapedia’s ‘Conservative Bible Project‘ (CBP). American “Conservatives” (who, like conservatives in Australia, are often the most radical) have begun a wiki project to rewrite the Bible free from “liberal distortion”. Their problem with current translations is as follows. As of 2009, there is no fully conservative translation [...]

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SEX! Now that I’ve got your attention, come to Church online

December 11, 2009

A piece on msnbc.com about online commuting to church. Apparently they even perform baptisms over webcams. I love this quote from Kurt Ervin, who runs the website for Central Christian Church We live in a day and age and a culture where people go to school online, bank online, date online and do other things [...]

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In Purgatoriorio

December 9, 2009

Apologies to Msrs Diamond, Yauch and Horovitz. David P often links on Facebook to places he’s discovered on Atlas Obscura, a site dedicated to weird and wonderful travel destinations around the world. One of these was the Museum of the Holy Souls in Purgatory, in Rome, which displays a number of bibles, prayerbooks and other [...]

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Twittorah

December 5, 2009

Rabbi Ben Greenberg has collected a number of readings from the Torah – re-tweeted by a selection of Jewish users – into a book available from internet self-publisher Lulu. Not everyone is pleased with the marriage of religion and social media, however, and Corey Hodges warned against obscuring Christianity beneath layers of entertainment, in his [...]

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The Glowstick Testament

November 16, 2009

The Glo Bible aims to update scripture for the iPhone generation (okay, I just decided that there’s an ‘iPhone generation’). This DVD-ROM features HD videos, maps and ‘virtual tours’ of 1st century Jerusalem and is suspiciously reminiscent of creator Nelson Saba’s iLumina (2002). Odiously, this DVD-ROM isn’t something you actually ‘buy’ for the US$90 price [...]

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Religion and airport scanners

October 26, 2009

A bit of a weird round-up this time, but airport security stories have been turning up on the religion blogs lately. The first story concerns a Canadian Roman Catholic bishop who was discovered with sexual images of young children on his laptop hard-drive by airport security. Tmatt at GetReligion asked “What made them search a [...]

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And yea, when the pigs have been slaughtered the streets shall be filled with rubbish

September 20, 2009

Following our earlier story on Mubarak’s culling of Egypt’s pigs, primarily owned by Coptic Orthodox Christians, recent reports show that the streets of Cairo are filled with uncollected rubbish. This is due to the fact that Zabbaleen, Coptic Christians who go door to door collecting rubbish, used to feed the organic scraps to the pigs [...]

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What Would Jesus Tweet? (WWJT)

September 19, 2009

Continuing our consideration of God and Twitter A. Prof. Mark Goodacre, a New Testament scholar from Duke University, was asked by BigThink “What Would Jesus Tweet?”. He responded that Paul was much more media savvy than Jesus, and draws an analogy between everyone’s favourite micro-blogging service and that 1st/2nd century social medium: the epistle.

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