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Social Media

YouTube censors atheists; Religital catches up almost a year later

December 6, 2009

Now, I know I’m behind in my posting, but this is getting ridiculous. A lot of the feeds in my RSS reader have been spewing up old news and this is one of them (although I can’t work out which it was, as I’ve had the tab open for ages). Still, it’s interesting anyway. Apparently [...]

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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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Parsis in the Digital Age

October 11, 2009

One of the things that really interests me is how archaic and minority religions survive their various diasporas. AFP published a piece on how Parsis are using digital and social media technology to contact one another and bolster their religious identity. This can be anything from Zpeakerbox, an online zine for Zoroastrian youth to Facebook [...]

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Death 2.0

October 1, 2009

The Huffington Post, The Guardian, The Washington Post, and the New York Times have all recently grappled with the notion of ‘digital afterlife’ – the online legacy left by the deceased. I particularly liked the Huffington Post’s assertion that “In the virtual realm, there is life after death.” Oh what religious ideas that notion might [...]

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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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@God on Twitter

September 6, 2009

The whole God-Twitter thing continues, possibly because media outlets are OBSESSED with social media’s current darling and terrified of the possibility that their finger may be perceived as being somewhere away from the pulse of Today’s Youth. This is another grab from The Washington Post‘s ‘On Faith‘ blog, which really serves more as a general [...]

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What does your Facebook info say about you?

September 6, 2009

I left the the Political and Religious Views fields on my Facebook profile blank, partly because I don’t subscribe to any easily definable school and partly because they’re not really anyone’s business. But while I might be jealous of my own privacy, I have no compunction scouring other people’s profiles to see what they’ve entered. [...]

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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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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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