Shoppers urged to give virtual gifts for World AIDS Day

by | Nov 15, 2007

As World AIDS day approaches (1st December), Christmas shoppers are being urged to give virtual gifts that benefit sufferers of HIV and AIDS around the world – from HIV education through to giving condoms. Over the last few Christmas seasons charities such as...

Violence, the media and redemption

by | Nov 15, 2007

Earlier in the summer, Mediawatch UK issued a report called Children and the Media. Its research claims that small children can be traumatised by images of war in television news bulletins. Perhaps some teen-agers are also getting a message from such footage, one that...

Making Manga out of the Bible

by | Nov 15, 2007

As a New Testament scholar with diverse cultural interests, I try to follow the marketing of the Bible – and here’s an interesting example. Published by Tyndale in the UK in 2006, and in the US in September 2007, Manga Messiah heralds the Manga Bible,...

Mixing football and morals

by | Nov 15, 2007

“It wasn’t a sermon,” said Sepp Blatter with a rather grizzly gravitas: “it was a message.” This was gnomic stuff from the sun-tanned President of FIFA, the international governing body of football. I guessed it was a compliment because of the accompanying air of...