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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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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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Babri mosque update

September 28, 2010

It has been confirmed that the verdict will be handed down on the 30th of September, as I previously speculated the dating of the texting ban extension indicated. ‘Indian court to rule on Ayodhya mosque row on Thursday‘, Reuters.com (28/9/10)

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No bulk texting in India until Babri mosque verdict

September 23, 2010

The Indian government has banned bulk texting for three days until the publication by the High Court as to whether the Babri mosque is on Muslim or Hindu land. The poor Jains don’t even get a look-in. Built in the 16th century on land that Hindus believe to be the birthplace of Rama, antipathy about [...]

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Yom Kippurrr and repairing the virtual world

September 19, 2010

In honour of the Pope’s highly successful tour of England (a.k.a the Roman Invasion) and in the spirit of complete bias in reporting, I’ve decided to play advocatus diaboli to Andrew’s advocatus Dei. It’s amazing what you find by being literal with Google: who would have thought that there was a Jewish iPhone Community website: [...]

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Offlining for Yom Kippur

September 18, 2010

Jewish ad execs Mark DiMassimo and Eric Yaverbaum have created a campaign for people to disconnect from social media for Yom Kippur. The pair have a co-opted an old series of posters for Levy’s Jewish Rye Bread to create a number of cautionary tales involving celebrities. via ‘Try the OffLining Pledge for Yom Kippur?‘, Read [...]

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App Store guidelines state religious criticism not welcome

September 11, 2010

Apple’s App Store have, to the initial relief of developers, finally released guidelines for app development. Previously devs were left in the dark as to what was and wasn’t kosher, and were often given no idea as to why apps were rejected for hosting in the App Store. They aren’t supposed to be publicly available, [...]

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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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Qur’an.mp3

September 11, 2009

We’ve been told that the iPod’s earphones may damage our hearing and distract us from traffic, but now a scholar from the al-Azhar mosque in Cairo has warned that listening to recordings of the Qur’an is dangerous for the soul. Sheik Gamal Qutb has warned that if someone listens to the Qur’an in public (presumably [...]

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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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