Posted in Computer, Consumer, Culture, Design, Law, Media, Mickey Mouse Religion, Privacy, Security on Saturday, May 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
By Maggie Shiels Technology reporter, BBC News, Silicon Valley
Facebook says it plans to “set the record straight”
A Canadian privacy group has filed a complaint against the social networking site Facebook accusing it of violating privacy laws.
The Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic has listed 22 separate breaches of privacy law in its country.
Clinic Director [...]
Posted in Christianity, Culture, Fundamentalism, Media, Violence on Saturday, May 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Below is a roundup provided at: http://www.thinkinganglicans.org.uk/archives/003104.html
Mr. Nazir has decided to speak about a very sensitive issue in a not very sensitive way……..
The Bishop of Rochester is attracting considerable attention in the UK media at present arising not only from his support for Paul Eddy’s private member’s motion, but also from an article he wrote [...]
Posted in Bad Theology, Bigotry, Christianity, Compassion, Culture, Fundamentalism, Good Theology, Literalism, Mickey Mouse Religion, Politics, Prison on Monday, May 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
SHEEP AND GOATS A stand-out exchange (rendered from memory) in the moving Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line, which received its UK network premier on Channel 4 this evening. Record company executive: “Listen, your audience are Christians. They don’t want to see you dressed in black and hear you singing for criminals, pimps, rapists and [...]
Posted in Bad Theology, Consumer, Culture, Law, Media, Politics on Thursday, May 22, 2008 | 21 Comments »
The tiniest survivor: How the ‘miracle’ baby born two weeks before the legal abortion limit clung to life against all odds
By Amanda CableLast updated at 10:53 PM on 21st May 2008
It’s the iconic image of the abortion debate – the tiny feet of a baby girl born TWO WEEKS before the legal limit for terminations. [...]
Posted in Christianity, Media, News, Religion, Sport, Video on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Tommy Burns tribute on Scotland Today
Posted in Christianity, Culture, Media, News, Religion, Sport on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Posted in Bad Theology, Christianity, Culture, Emergent, Emerging, Evangelism, Fundamentalism, Good Theology, Humour, Law, Literalism, Postmodern, Religion, Theology on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Posted in Compassion, Culture, Media, Personal, Politics, Sport on Sunday, May 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A fan lays a Rangers top at the shrine outside Celtic Park
By Brian Ponsonby
Glasgow and the West reporter, BBC Scotland news website
For football fans in Glasgow, the clouds above the city have rarely been blacker.
Rangers fans were left in despair following their team’s defeat to Russian club, Zenit St Petersburg, in Wednesday’s Uefa Cup final.
But [...]
Posted in Christianity, Compassion, Culture, Good Theology, Law, Media, Prison, Theology, Violence on Saturday, May 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
By Patrick Sawer and Vikki Miller
Last Updated: 5:15PM BST 17/05/2008
The parents of murdered teenager Jimmy Mizen have made an emotional plea for people to show “more love” in order to avoid a repeat of the tragedy which robbed them of their son.
CATHAL McNAUGHTON
Barry and Margaret Mizen spoke of the importance of hugs
Margaret Mizen – holding [...]
Posted in Bad Theology, Christianity, Compassion, Consumer, Culture, Fundamentalism, Good Theology, Law, Literalism, Politics, Prison, Religion, Security, Theology on Sunday, May 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Here is the second part of a series started a few weeks back on atonement with implications on the legal system, and especially our penal system…..
Beginning before the era of Constantine (early 4th century), but intensified during and since, the early church emphasis on becoming ‘Christlike’ based upon Christ’s atonement shifted to becoming merely ‘Christian’, [...]
