Open Mic at the iMonk Cafe: What Would You Say to the Marilyn Manson Audience?

Open Mic at the iMonk Cafe: What Would You Say to the Marilyn Manson Audience?: “First read the story of Christian protestors at a Marilyn Manson concert. (Slow…be patient)Then, savor the irony: If you read Manson’s biography, he’s the product of Christian parenting and fundamentalist education.Marilyn Manson was born as Brian Hugh Warner in Canton, [...]

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#24526 – Animated version of the events of Hiroshima in…

#24526 – Animated version of the events of Hiroshima in…: “
Animated version of the events of Hiroshima in 1945. Incredible execution, a touching stop motion written, animated, & directed by Dan Blank.
(Want more? See NOTCOT.org and NOTCOT.com)“

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On Calvin, Hobbes, and rights

On Calvin, Hobbes, and rights: “Sorry for the slow posting lately: my Calvin paper kept me holed up all week, stressing and sweating over those huge tomes. The paper ended up with the title, “Rights, Resistance and the Common Good: Calvin’s Political Theology”. Here’s an excerpt from the conclusion:
Early modern politics took up one particular [...]

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New T. F. Torrance resources

New T. F. Torrance resources: “The T. F. Torrance Fellowship has released the first issue of its new journal, Participatio: The Journal of the Thomas F. Torrance Theological Fellowship. It’s available for free download, and this first issue features contributions by Ray Anderson, Paul Molnar, Alister McGrath, George Hunsinger, and others.
Meanwhile, Ashgate have released Myk [...]

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Google Reader posting to WordPress.com

Can anyone help me with this one? I have tried as described in the ’settings’ section in Google Reader. and all I get is my blog without the post…. I suppose I could send it by email???
Well, tried to email from Google Reader….. no joy. From Googlemail….. still no joy
I still need help [...]

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From Our Media Correspondent

From Our Media Correspondent: “Our Man With The Grubby Raincoat And A 10p Bic Writes:-
James Murdoch, the heir to his father Rupert’s global News Corporation empire, tonight accused the BBC of undertaking a “chilling” land-grab of the media that posed a “serious and imminent” threat to the future provision of news in Britain.
Murdoch junior, who [...]

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Atheists offer to care for Christians’ pets after the Rapture

Atheists offer to care for Christians' pets after the Rapture: “It’s a question that all animalloving Christian evangelicals must address: who will look after their pets on Earth when the Rapture comes and they are taken up to heaven?”

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Bauckham Video: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony

Bauckham Video: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony: ”
Richard Bauckham’s book Jesus and the Eyewitnesses. is one of the most important books published on the Gospels in recent scholarship. The video posted below is Bauckham’s summary of the book, and it is the best 10 minute introduction to this important work that I have seen.

[HT: The [...]

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The power and growth of social networking

Cheers Matt for sending this to me via Twitter
http://bit.ly/4DLpNK

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Big News: Change.org to lead Blog Action Day 2009

Hey BAD bloggers!
It’s almost that time of year again, and this time I have some exciting news to announce.
When we started Blog Action Day two years ago, we had no idea how large it would become. Now that it’s grown beyond our
wildest expectations, we’ve decided that it’s time Blog Action Day had a more permanent [...]

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