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Saturday, July 26, 2008

Cyber Worship Resource of the Week is The Christian Prayer While Logging Onto the Internet

Here is a sample from inside the Book: Cyber Worship in Multifaith Perspectives--full of resources that will facilitate building bridges in a Multifaith society. Table of Contents /Reviews
Almighty and eternal God,
who created us in Thy image and bade us to seek after all that is good,
true and beautiful,
especially in the divine person of Thy only-begotten Son,
our Lord Jesus Christ,
grant we beseech Thee that,
through the intercession of Saint Isidore,
bishop and doctor,
during our journeys through the internet we will direct our hands and eyes only to that which is pleasing to Thee
and treat with charity and patience all those souls whom we encounter.
Through Christ our Lord.

Amen

Chapter 1. 'Mapping Webwise'

Resource of the Week is: A Prayer before Logging onto the Internet and the Catholic Online Forum (prayer on p. 18, quoted). Order with Publisher:Order from Publisher

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Why musicians make us weep and computers don't?

New Study of Public Library of Science.
Info courtesy: Research Directory Headline

Music can soothe the savage breast much better if played by musicians rather than clever computers, according to a new University of Sussex-led study published in the online, open-access journal PLoS ONE.

Neuroscientists looked at the brain's response to piano sonatas played either by a computer or a musician and found that, while the computerised music elicited an emotional response – particularly to unexpected chord changes - it was not as strong as listening to the same piece played by a professional pianist. continue reading



Saturday, July 19, 2008

Cyber Worship Resource of the Week is The Jewish Prayer While Logging Onto the Internet

Here is a sample from inside the Book: Cyber Worship in Multifaith Perspectives--full of resources that will facilitate building bridges in a Multifaith society. Table of Contents / Reviews
"Please God, help me cleanse the computer of viruses and evil photographs that disturb and ruin my work ..., so that I shall be able to cleanse myself," reads the benediction by Shlomo Eliahu, chief rabbi in the northern town of Safed.

Chapter 1. 'Mapping Webwise'

Resource of the Week is: Rabbi offers prayer for Web porn surfers (prayer on p. 56, quoted from www.gnatoll.com). Order with Publisher:Order from Publisher

Friday, July 04, 2008

Sharia law could have UK role, says lord chief justice

Patrick Wintour and Riazat Butt
The Guardian,
Friday July 4, 2008

Britain's most senior judge reopened one of the most highly charged debates in Britain last night when he said he was willing to see sharia law operate in the country, so long as it did not conflict with the laws of England and Wales, or lead to the imposition of severe physical punishments.

The remarks by the lord chief justice, Lord Phillips, in a speech to the London Muslim Council yesterday, had a conscious echo of the comments made by the archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, in February who argued that sharia law could sometimes be used in Britain. continue reading the full story
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