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World of Genesis… craft. Of War.

September 6, 2010

Rumours of a Bible MMO have been greatly exaggerated. The Bible Online: Chapter 1 – The Heroes looks to be less than its source material might promise. Players assume the role of Abraham and (somehow) his descendants; this last being perhaps the most interesting feature mentioned. I’m not sure how they could incorporate that into [...]

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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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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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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 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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PopeTube

May 23, 2009

No longer do you need to make the long trek all the way to St Peter’s to see the Pope: now you can stream him direct to your smartphone! The Pope2You portal features links to their Facebook and iPhone apps, WikiCath and the Vatican’s YouTube channel. This is something of a turn-around for the Vatican, [...]

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Italian priests find excuse to use iPhones during sermons

December 23, 2008

Padre Paolo Padrini has teamed up with programmer and Hip-Hop enthusiast Dimitri Giani to create the iBreviary, an iPhone app that contains the Roman Catholic prayer breviary so priests don’t need to carry around those cumbersome books any more. I mean, have you seen a Bible recently? Those things are heavy! English priests be warned, [...]

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