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The New York Times writes about the recent Burger King “Whopper Sacrifice” campaign, which gave Whoppers to Facebook users who would “unfriend” 10 of their friends for the promotion. Too Many Online Friends? Time to Delete – NYTimes.com. The campaign caused a great furor because it initially broke a Facebook…

I was looking for some resources earlier today that discussed the overlap between Celtic spirituality and Eastern Orthodox spirituality.  There’s a really helpful article on the topic here: Celtic Christian Spirituality. I’ve only skimmed it so far, but it looks excellent, and I wanted to pass it along to others…

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the pope and new technologies I don’t have a major commentary on the Pope’s new message to the world about New Technologies, etc. I have seen others commenting on it and so I finally read it this morning. I just wanted to say I think it’s a good statement. It’s…

Photographer Peter Turnley writes about his experience at the Obama inauguration, which the veteran of Bosnia, Rwanda, Chechnya, Haiti, Indonesia, Afghanistan, Kosovo and Iraq calls “like no moment I’ve ever witnessed”.  He writes movingly about the impact that the Obama presidency is having on African-Americans that he spoke with. via…

With all of our recent talk of ancient manuscripts, there’s another (not quite so ancient) book in the news today: Barack Obama has chosen to be sworn in on the Lincoln Inaugural Bible. Read a bit more on the Bible’s history in this short interview with Library of Congress’ Clark…