Daily Archives: 21/02/2011

Vancouver voted the world’s best city to live in — with London trailing in 53rd. place

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Vancouver voted the world’s best city to live in – with London trailing in 53rd place The Canadian west coast city scored 98 percent on a combination of stability, health care, culture and environment, education, and infrastructure. Vancouver has been … Continue reading →

Posted in Popular Culture, Society

Rick Warren, promoter of George W. Bush, sees an opportunity in other people’s suffering

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Here’s Rick Warren’s widely blogged-upon recent announcement: It was bad enough when Warren chose to celebrate and promote torture proponent George W. Bush, who promptly “thanked” Warren by openly admitting that the sole reason he was at Saddleback church was to flog his political … Continue reading →

Posted in Fundamentalism, Popular Culture, Society

Quote of the day: Timothy Beal on appreciating the complexity of the Bible

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‘The Bible is not a book of answers but a library of questions.  As such it opens up space for us to explore different voices and perspectives, to discuss, to disagree and, above all, to think.  Too often, however, that’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Biblical Studies, Quote of the Day, Theology

Turkish pro-Islamic politicians try to seize ancient Christian monastery’s land and livelihood

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Mor Gabriel, a Syrian-Orthodox monastery that dates to the year 397, and is the oldest functioning Christian monastery in the world, may be forced to close after the Turkish government claimed ownership of its land. Not even the Mongols of the … Continue reading →

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15,000 Tunisians protest vicious murder of young Polish priest Fr. Marek Rybinski

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Tunisians protest Polish priest murder Up to 15,000 demonstrators took to the streets of Tunis on Saturday following the murder of Polish missionary Father Marek Rybinski, who was found with his throat cut at the Roman Catholic Selesian mission in … Continue reading →

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New Atheists not doing very well: number of Catholics worldwide grows by 15 million in one year

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Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and the other New Atheist leaders like to talk a lot about the decline of religious belief but the empirical evidence continues to go against them: Number of Catholics in the world grows by 15m in … Continue reading →

Posted in Atheism, Christian Churches