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Mark Dixon shares what he likes about Twitter. E. g. he likes Tweet Scan and thus encouraged me to restart our once famous series of summaries of sport and spirituality on twitter. Not on a regular basis, but at least occasionally. Now here comes A Sporting Christmas on Twitter:

There were 37 workout-tweets on Christmas Eve. These are our favorites:
Hannes’ Xmas, MJ’s shopper, kjo48’s gift, Shawn’s run, allify’s holiday, Shannon’s cookies and Josh’s SMS

There were 20 workout-tweets on Christmas Day. These are our favorites:
Mike’s Triceps, paugren’s Christmas, meetmeinmontauk’s bliss, Daniel’s thumbs and calinative’s pain.

1. Kaka planning future as evangelical minister (soccer)
2. NBA’s Nastiest and Most Unusual Records (nba)
3. Thanksgiving Day Prayers and Football (nfl, thanksgiving)
4. Jon Kitna doesn’t have to go to hell (nfl, thanksgiving)
5. Fast forward to the 5th Stage of Grief (nfl)
6. NHaiL Satan (nhl)
7. Ferocious (boxing, myspace)
8. South Park: Jesus wins! (boxing, branding, wwe)
9. Robert Guerrero Knockout Video (boxing)
10. blogs4God (blogs)

Near the end of the year it’s time for lists.
Holy Trinity! is #1 of TIME’s Top 10 Sports Moments

America has a new favorite Christmas movie: A Christmas Story, the 1983 tale about Ralphie (Peter Billingsley), a 9-year-old in 1940s Indiana, and his lust for a Red Ryder air rifle. And it’s overtaking Wonderful Life, A Christmas Carol and the rest. This is one of those little pop-cultural shifts–football overtakes baseball, salsa defeats ketchup–that signal bigger changes: here, in the relationship between the community and the individual. In a traditional Christmas story, the larger holiday is a social good. Read more at time.com

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lemon from Church 2.0 – the blog is reminded that there are still a number of folks who don’t share appreciation of the medium “weblog” and thus recomends watching “Blogs in Plain English”.
With the help of blogs, “a sports star can share news with fans”. That’s Church 2.0 at its best.

During these days of Hanukkah some will receive one box that needs no unwrapping: a tzedakah box, used to collect coins for a good cause. Tzedakah (Hebrew: צדקה) is a Hebrew word most commonly translated as charity, though it is based on a root meaning justice (צדק). The Jewish Museum Shop offers the pictured tzedakah box. It features a collage of antique sports images and words. A nice gift for the bar mitzvah boy or sports enthusiast.
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You can make it true. Just use your A S D and arrow keys and Jesus wins.
Comedy Central features a funny beat’em up South Park style.
Besides having Jesus win the tournament, you can as well choose to show up as Satan and perform special moves more evil than resurrection, holy fist, slight healing or Santa’s gift.

One religious sign of the game is so small, but don’t miss it:
Kyle throws a David Star shuriken, if you like.

Hardly sports, but surely religion.

PlayersPrayers now is a proud member of blogs4God:

Don’t be misled by the great title of this book. The only prayer the player says goes like this: “Oh Lord, please reveal to me the magical aiming secret.”