Bersih: Whom does media serve? Catching up with one of my favorites, The Nut Graph. Perhaps, the heavily funded main stream media can learn a thing or two? Starting with the following questions: “. . . whom did the Malaysian traditional media serve in their recent coverage of the Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections…
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Random Links 401 #Bersih 2.0
My Bersih experience A collection from CCM youth Bersih 2.0 – Would Jesus have marched? or … where would Jesus be on that unforgettable day? Heartaches & joy ~ a bittersweet day indeed! Stirrings from the heart of a fellow Malaysian My own perspective of 9th July Walk For Freedom From the Micah Mandate July…
Random Links 400 #Gothenburg Process Participants
The participants and speakers of the Gothenburg IV – Ecumenical Conference on Arms Trade came from all the organizations and bodies below. Church of Sweden Lutheran Church in Malaysia and Singapore The Christian Conference of Asia Pax Christi Religions for Peace Saferworld Church of England Amnesty UK United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs The International Action…
Random Links 399 on #Arms Trade
Gothenburg IV – Ecumenical Conference on Arms Trade This conference really is stretching my mind. Arms Trade-a major cause of suffering Great quote from a former USA president. Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those…
Random Links 398 on #Budget Malaysia 2011
2011 Budget will set the pace for Malaysia to transformWe start with a positive note from the mainstream paper. 2011 Budget: Big Malaysia is back Then we go online for a while. Chief executive of the Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs, Wan Saiful Wan Jan, noted that 75 per cent of the government’s budget…
Random Links 397 on #Theology
Praying with Walter Brueggemann – A Prayer of Protest Our prayer, theology and practice is closely related. Most Christians need to get out more, but not without the needed pauses to know where we are going. Some quick thoughts on the “gap” between “dignity, justice…running over… forgive.”: For me the work of justice etc, is…
Random Links 396 on #Evangelism #Conversion & #Proselytism
Joint declaration on the freedom of religion and the right to conversion It seems to me rather than side stepping this matter it’s better to be up front about it. In Norway, they have taken the initiative to combat islamophobia. How about in Malaysia? Combat christophobia anyone? The Islamic Council of Norway and the Church…
Random Links 395 on #Theology
RETHINKING THE SEX CRISES IN CATHOLICISM AND ANGLICANISM, PART 1 RETHINKING THE SEX CRISES IN CATHOLICISM AND ANGLICANISM, PART 2 RETHINKING THE SEX CRISES IN CATHOLICISM AND ANGLICANISM, PART 3 I’m glad I slowly ploughed through the three articles. My favorite line is a quote from Gregory of Nyssa "Any theory divorced from living examples…
Random Links 394 on #Malaysia
Redrawing boundaries for electoral success Snap Elections soon? But there is one reason why BN might not call for an election as early as 2011. And that is because the redrawing of electoral boundaries, an exercise allowed by law not less than eight years after the last one, can at the earliest commence only next…
Random Links 393 on #WorldCup2010
Japan vs Paraguay: Penalty-kick heartbreak for Japan, but Asian soccer on the rise It would have been really nice if Japan went through. But then, balls hit the cross bar! We’ll win World Cup for Africa – Ghana That’s the spirit! “Nobody gave us a chance to be in the quarterfinals and now we have…