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#romancatholics

February 28, 2011

Not content with revealing his previously secret love for Tupac and Biggie Smalls, the Pope has provided an official satement on social media and he initially has favourable things to say. this dynamic has contributed to a new appreciation of communication itself, which is seen first of all as dialogue, exchange, solidarity and the creation [...]

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Babri mosque ruling: everyone wins (and everyone loses).

October 4, 2010

Perhaps unsurprisingly the Allahabad High Court struck a compromise between Hindu and Muslim interests last Thursday, ruling that the site be divided between all three parties: beside Muslims and “Hindus” are the Nirmohi Akhara sect, devotees of the Hindu god Hanuman. Text of the judges’ rulings can be read here (thanks to DavidP for this), [...]

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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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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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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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‘Tweeting Wall’? ‘Twestern Wall? ‘Twailing Wall’?

July 24, 2009

T’were awful puns, I know. Twitter user @TheKotel has established a free service whereby prayers tweeted on his profile will be printed and placed in the Western or ‘Wailing’ Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem. This is by no means an ‘official’ service, and the associated website’s FAQ attributes it to “a young man [...]

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