by Charles Cameron | Aug 1, 2016 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — of martyrdom according to ISIS and the church, & of forgiveness in response to hate — continuing from Of sacrifice and martyrdom ] . Icon by Coptic artist Tony Rezk. The martyrs’ faces are the faces of Christ. ** My Lapido piece...
by Charles Cameron | Jul 31, 2016 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — noting a further IS propaganda effort to frame its terror as a war against Christendom ] . Fake Dabiq 15: Fake version/s of #SIS English mag, #Dabiq 15, are circulated on twitter. Not 1st time bogus #ISIS/ #AQ mags surface...
by Charles Cameron | Jul 23, 2016 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — keeping a wary eye on algorithms, with the sting in the three links at the end ] . Here’s a tweet alerting readers to a newspaper piece on the Munich terror attack: Police investigate claim Muinch gunman lured victims to their deaths...
by Charles Cameron | Jun 30, 2016 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — religions taking other religions apart, stone by stone, image by image, song by song ] . Some recently converted Jehovah’s Witnesses appear to have destroyed the altars of indigenous Otomi people in Mexico, an anthopologist has...
by Charles Cameron | Jun 24, 2016 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — in using the word apocalyptic to describe mundane (or zombied) disturbances such as Brexit, we lose sight of the beauty and mystery it conceals & reveals ] . In fact, not so much as a whiff of fresh napalm in the morning. Tim Furnish...