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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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Would the real Dante Alighieri please stand up?

September 9, 2009

It’s the 9th of the month, so that means Visceral have released info about the next circle of Hell: this time it’s the 4th circle, “Greed” (I would have stuck with “Avarice”, but then I would have done a lot of things differently to them). This time the team reveals that Dante, now a veteran [...]

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Strict seminarians have to share an email account

August 31, 2009

Just like in the Stone Age! Seminarians at the Redemptoris Mater House of Formation (peopled by those called from the Neocatechumenal Way) on the John Paul II Center for the New Evangelization campus in Denver (they can also be found all over the world, including Perth and Sydney) lead a more disciplined life than their [...]

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4chan targets Christian Facebookers

August 26, 2009

Those naughty boys (and girls) at 4chan have been at it again, this time hacking a Christian dating site and using its user details to take control of members’ Facebook accounts. They used this control to cast their victims in an unfavourable light by posting racist messages, suggesting the promiscuity of members or making callous [...]

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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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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 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 OTSOTO [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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