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August 2016

August 15, 2016

Assumption: Personalising the Eschaton

The Austrian political philosopher Eric Voegelin, in spite of his championing of a participation in...

July 2016

July 26, 2016

Out Now: The Way of the Cross with Zombie Jesus

A previous post mentioned the imminent arrival of Matthew Tan's second book, Redeeming Flesh: the...

July 13, 2016

Coming Soon: The Way of the Cross with Zombie Jesus

Cascade Books, the imprint of Wipf and Stock, will soon send to print the manuscript...

June 2016

June 05, 2016

Homesickness for Alien Places

There are times when, after coming back from a sojourn overseas, we start pining for...

May 2016

May 15, 2016

Discerning Before Utopia

This post was spurred on by two things, a class given on discernment at Campion...

April 2016

April 03, 2016

When What We See Is What We Worship

The old saying goes that the “eyes are the windows to the soul”, and many...

March 2016

March 20, 2016

Dance & Transcendance

There is something uncanny about the subgenre of electronica broadly called "dance music". In sample...

March 07, 2016

A Sin Called Sadness

In the reading of Scripture, we are familiar with the exhortations against committing specific sins....

December 2015

December 21, 2015

Mary’s Visitation & the Ark of the Covenant

The Gospel in the Lectionary for the Fourth Sunday of Advent recounts the visitation by...

December 07, 2015

Fundamental Joy

It finally happened. In an interstate flight, the Pixar movie Inside Out was watched and,...

December 01, 2015

Lament as Neo-Genesis

In a previous post, mention was made of a quote by St. Isaac the Syrian,...

November 2015

November 09, 2015

The Dedication of St. John Lateran: Temple, Market & Apocalypse

The Gospel reading for the liturgy marking the feast of the dedication of the Basilica...

September 2015

September 30, 2015

Climate and Family: A Question of Covenant

Pope Francis has left North America to return to Rome, after a trip that brought...

September 21, 2015

Against Spirituality

Like everyone else, the Christian is subject to the onslaught of bad news flooding...

August 2015

August 07, 2015

The Liturgy of Hiroshima

In Theopolitical Imagination, William Cavanaugh described the nation state as a parody of the Church, with...

May 2015

May 05, 2015

Take Me With You: A Theology of Running Away

Readers may remember an old post from 2012 where suggestions were made on the construction...

October 2014

October 23, 2014

The False Completeness of the Sixth Day

In the book of Genesis, all of the created world "in all their array" is...

September 2014

September 25, 2014

Screaming Wisdom

In Scripture classes this week, students at Campion College would have covered the Wisdom Literature...

August 2014

August 22, 2014

New Podcast: Faith in the Church of Facebook

The Sydney-based webradio station Cradio recently released a podcast of a paper presented by the Divine...

July 2014

July 31, 2014

Postsecular Entertainment

Entertainment has often been the whipping boy of culture warriors, who cite anything from...

June 2014

June 27, 2014

On Last Times…

When things, events and people are encountered for one last time, the character of the...

May 2014

May 29, 2014

The Ascension of God and Divinisation of Man

We tend to think of the Resurrection as both the culmination as well as the...

April 2014

April 17, 2014

Adam on Good Friday

At this time, the Church celebrates the passion of its founder, Jesus Christ. The events...

March 2014

March 25, 2014

Mary and the Cosmos: the Annunciation According to Bernard of Clairvaux

Today is the feast of the Annunciation, the feast whereby the Incarnation was made known...

March 14, 2014

Outrageous Fortunes and Comforting Providence

There are good days. And there are bad days. And then there are days where...

January 2014

January 24, 2014

Salvation & Other People

"Your Personal Lord and Saviour". It is a phrase bandied about by street...

January 09, 2014

Where the Centre Holds

A line in William Butler Yeats' The Second Coming bewailed the breakdown of civilisation the...

January 03, 2014

Crying and the Life of the World to Come

Another year has passed, and with that comes the catharsis of committing yet another...

November 2013

November 21, 2013

Pain & Logos

In an interview with the Mars Hill Audio Journal, the Canadian theologian Hans Boersma...

November 07, 2013

Slavoj Zizek, the Christian Revolution & So On…

The Slovenian marxist philosopher Slavoj Zizek has made a reputation for himself as the "Elvis...