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June 2017

June 19, 2017

Mariology at the Beginning of the Third Millenium

A few years ago, I posted on the possibility of giving an epistemological twist on...

June 01, 2017

Insurance, Holiness and Hair

The centrefold of a 2011 edition of Sydney’s short-lived tabloid, mX, featured a report...

May 2017

May 16, 2017

Reflections of a Saint of Nagasaki

Who is Servant of God Takashi Nagai?

May 09, 2017

Reminder of Launch of “Redeeming Flesh: The Way of the Cross with Zombie Jesus”

Readers in Sydney would probably have received notice of the launch for my little book Redeeming...

April 2017

April 12, 2017

Launch of “Redeeming Flesh”

We are pleased to announce that Redeeming Flesh: The Way of the Cross with Zombie...

April 04, 2017

The Laughing God

A problem many Christians face is being too serious. One can almost measure the level...

March 2017

March 28, 2017

Turning Towards Nil

A former colleague, a Latinist, one day pointed out the neoplatonic influences behind the creation...

March 01, 2017

Penances You Can Hear: Christianity, Pop Culture & Multiculturalism

Lent is upon us and Melbourne and Sydney readers have the opportunity to do their...

February 2017

February 22, 2017

The Mediated Self: Identity, Advertising & Eucharist

In The Life of Brian, the titular protagonist wanted to remind everyone that "we are all...

February 07, 2017

Friendship, Politics & Justice

We are pleased to feature a guest-post this week by Dr. Timothy J. Furry, who...

January 2017

January 31, 2017

Playing Heaven and the Real Liturgical Deal

The first world drips with entertainment. Televisions beam sporting events, the latest series or reruns...

January 24, 2017

Let My Porkchop Go: Against the Recruitment of Everything

...from a hungry massgoer... One Sunday after Mass, I went to the pub to get...

December 2016

December 21, 2016

Soulless Incisions in the Frantic Pursuit of ‘Now’

The 2011 Spanish thriller The Skin I Live In (La Piel Que Habito), starring Antonio...

December 16, 2016

Pontifical Sass: More Little Surprises from Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI

This is a follow up from a post last week, showing some of the little...

November 2016

November 15, 2016

Things Themselves: Phenomenology After Trump

Or WWJD, as in "What Would Jean (Baudrillard) Do?" More on this later, but first,...

November 01, 2016

Money as Sacrifice

The convention in this world is to see money as "the bottom line", a tangible...

October 2016

October 11, 2016

How Should Christians Respond to “the Feels”?

The feels... Nowadays, it is used to describe two things at once. At one,...

October 04, 2016

Desire & Idolatry: After Debating

Elections come, elections go, but the media stands firm forever... Whilst another electoral debate has...

September 2016

September 27, 2016

Emmanuel Mounier: On Bodies & the Abstracting Power of Machines

In a tutorial in political philosophy class at Campion College Australia last week, students were...

September 20, 2016

Catfishing, the Synthetic Self & Confession

Readers of the Catholic blogosphere would by now be acquainted with Chase Padusniak (of Jappers...

September 11, 2016

The Tenacity of Tradition

The so called Age of Enlightenment, especially after Kant and Hegel, had a standard catch...

September 05, 2016

New Podcast: The Way of the Cross with Zombie Jesus

Catholic Youth Broken Bay, the part of the Diocese of Broken Bay's Office for Evangelisation,...

August 2016

August 22, 2016

On Being Migrant and Catholic

This post is a part of the Patheos Catholic Channel series, "Catholicity: Identity and Its...

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 18, 2016

Freedom, Autonomy and Vice

A lunchroom discussion on suggestions for suitable relaxing reading to bring along on a Mediterranean...

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...

July 05, 2016

Selfies, Cake & Death

The Guardian's Rana Dasgupta recently wrote a piece concerning the now common practice of posting...

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 23, 2016

Post-Materialism, Sacramentality & Marketing

A friend on social media once wondered out loud why a big telecommunications company would...