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December 2018

December 10, 2018

Images & Idolatry: What Christians Can Learn from Cultural Marxism

Introduction Most of the time, when Catholics use the term "Cultural Marxism" they mean to...

December 04, 2018

The 3 Stages of Advent Waiting

Sunday marked the first day of Advent, the season of waiting for the coming of...

November 2018

November 12, 2018

Vice is the Opiate of the Masses

A diagnosis that is common to the thought of Nietzsche and Marx concerns the pacifying...

October 2018

October 20, 2018

Romano Guardini & the Heft of Heaven

Social media reminded me that, a year ago today, I wrote a post concerning the...

September 2018

September 14, 2018

Sloth: The Unseen Deadly Sin (Coming Next Sunday)

Wherein I get to talk about sloths! Oh... Readers in Sydney might be interested to...

August 2018

August 30, 2018

How the Sin of Sloth Helped Me Decode “Crazy Rich Asians”

I had the chance to see Crazy Rich Asians in the movies. It features a...

August 24, 2018

Fragments of the Postsecular

In my paper "Christ in Hyperreality", I reiterated the point put forward earlier by William...

July 2018

July 24, 2018

Christ in Hyperreality: Cultural Marxism, Kulturkritik & Fake News (Podcast Now Out)

A couple of weeks ago, the Perth-based Dawson Society for Philosophy and Culture held their...

April 2018

April 27, 2018

Surprise: an Anthropology

As a creature of habit, I do not like surprises. I like the routine and...

April 04, 2018

When Silence is God’s Language

In his A Brief Reader on the Virtues of the Human Heart, Josef Pieper wrote...

March 2018

March 23, 2018

The Saving Gathering

A colleague's wife noticed that I had on my shelf A Distant Prospect, a novel set...

March 13, 2018

Coming Soon: Porn and “the Killing”

I have been kindly invited by the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on...

March 06, 2018

Blessed are the Meek: A Video for Common Grace

Readers might remember that, last year, I was invited to make a lenten video contribution...

February 2018

February 12, 2018

Suggestion for Lent: The Way of the Cross with Zombie Jesus

Lent is a time of penance, a time where self-aggrandisement has no place and where...

February 01, 2018

Then When Your Dreams Come True…the Trauma

The old cliche goes that the other most terrible thing in the world is getting...

December 2017

December 22, 2017

Dumping Christ for the ‘Crisis’

Crises are useful gimmicks, whether it is economic meltdowns, climate change, immigration, cabinet reshuffles, sex...

December 01, 2017

…The Meek…

Common Grace, an organisation that describes itself as a "movement of Christians passionate about Jesus...

November 2017

November 17, 2017

This New Mercy

We talk a lot about how bad sin is, and it is bad. As Augustine...

October 2017

October 20, 2017

The Heft of Heaven

Almost twenty years ago, Goo Goo Dolls made a name for themselves with a song...

October 13, 2017

Bodies Between Heaven & Earth

I have just started trawling through some old essays for tips for a potential project...

October 06, 2017

Nostalgia, Reality & the Voice of God

I had trouble sleeping last week. I would wake up in the middle of the...

September 2017

September 29, 2017

Scattered & Gathered: Catholics in Diaspora

The good folk at Wipf & Stock have just published the third volume in their "Studies...

September 15, 2017

From the Vault: the Divine Wedgie Podcast Series

If you have been following the evolution of the Divine Wedgie over time, first up, a...

September 08, 2017

After Resurrection, the Holes…

I remember a line used by my catechism teachers when I was a kid that...

August 2017

August 25, 2017

Towards a Kenotic Identity Politics: Migration, Transformation & the Eucharist

I recently had the pleasure of being part of a symposium on Religion and the Humanitarian...

August 18, 2017

Singing Psalms With Angels and Demons

There comes a point for those who do the Office of Readings where one has...

August 11, 2017

Fidelity in Difference

Conform. That is the catchcry of a lot of Christians of varying stripes nowadays. Fidelity...

July 2017

July 25, 2017

God and the Pink Elephant

At a seminar on zombies (yes, I am still on the promotional path for the Redeeming...

July 13, 2017

Out of Body, Out of Mind

In 1975, long before the age of social media, an experiment was conducted at...

June 2017

June 29, 2017

Tracey Rowland on Zombie Jesus

The John Paul II Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame Australia, Tracey...