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March 2014

March 21, 2014

The Church & Bridging Cultures: Sr. Cristina & The Voice

By now, a number of readers would be familiar with the latest viral...

March 08, 2014

“Justice, Unity & the Hidden Christ”: Review in Ethika Politika

Ethika Politika, a website run out of the Centre for Morality and Public Life, has...

February 2014

February 28, 2014

Book Launch: Justice, Unity & the Hidden Christ

Readers in Chicago might be interested to know that Justice, Unity and the Hidden Christ:...

January 2014

January 17, 2014

Justice, Unity & the Hidden Christ: New Book by Matthew Tan

The theological publishing house Wipf & Stock has released the first book by the Divine...

January 09, 2014

Where the Centre Holds

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

December 2013

December 12, 2013

The Body Moral

A 2008 edition of The Sociology of Sport Journal featured a highly illuminating article entitled...

November 2013

November 14, 2013

Food: the Last Sacrament

The word "foodie" has now entered common usage in contemporary English. The word denotes a...

October 2013

October 31, 2013

Against Salvific Minimalism: Passion & Cosmos

Christians often adopt an anthropocentric conception of the purpose of the history of salvation. The...

October 24, 2013

Technology, Sin and Goodness

The evangelical publishing house IVP Academic released the computer scientist Derek Schuurman's Shaping a Digital...

October 16, 2013

What the Church Learns from Graffiti

The street artist Banksy, who made a name for himself by making ironic stencils on...

September 2013

September 19, 2013

Food, Culture and Dirt

Norman Wirzba's Food and Faith: A Theology of Eating is nothing short of a treasure...

August 2013

August 03, 2013

Why Plato Helps Christians in the Real World

Christians today often proudly declare their love for Aristotle. Catholics and a number of Protestants...

July 2013

July 25, 2013

Christians and Crises

Crises are politically useful gimmicks. Whether it is economic meltdowns, asylum seekers, cabinet reshuffles, sex...

June 2013

June 14, 2013

Why Christians Should Shut Up

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

April 2013

April 12, 2013

Book Launch: On the Purpose of a University Education

Yesterday in Sydney, the Australian author, journalist and Member of Parliament Peter Coleman launched Campion...

February 2013

February 27, 2013

Ratzinger and Liturgy: The Cosmos and Facing East

On this day, Pope Benedict XVI returns to his status as Joseph Ratzinger, only with...

February 22, 2013

Prayer, Sincerity and Economy

Many Christians do not like liturgical prayers. The seemingly mechanistic corporate drones that are the...

December 2012

December 07, 2012

Bodily Epistemology: the City and Plastic Surgery

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

November 2012

November 22, 2012

The Church and the State of Exception

A famous stanza of The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats reads:Things fall apart; the...

November 06, 2012

Catholic Social Teaching & Political Revival

Matthew Taylor of the BBC's Radio 4 has today provided a nuanced analysis of a...

November 01, 2012

Refugees and the Politics of All Saints Day

The Sydney Morning Herald yesterday reported on the Australian government's proposal to excise all of...

October 2012

October 18, 2012

On Liking the Gospel: the Church and New Media

There is a question hanging over the Church on what to do with New Media....

October 04, 2012

Bonaventure, Francis & the End of the World

Today the Church celebrates the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, arguably the most well...

September 2012

September 28, 2012

“Gangnam Style” & Evangelisation

A minor musical phenomenon has been the Korean pop (aka K-pop) song "Gangnam Style" by...

August 2012

August 30, 2012

Why Theology Should Kneel

Fr. Robert Barron, in a recent installment of his Word on Fire series of Youtube...

August 16, 2012

The Ecclesiology of Getting the Flu

Mention was previously made of Augustine's notion of the City of God being on pilgrimage...

August 09, 2012

The City and Running Away in “Dexter”

A previous post suggested that Christian theology requires a more thorough exploration on the theme...

August 02, 2012

The Christian, Cities & Difference

Aristotle once said that "the city is composed of different kinds of men" and that...

July 2012

July 13, 2012

On Liking the Gospel: The Church & New Media

There is a question hanging over the Church on what to do with New Media....

June 2012

June 15, 2012

Bonaventure for Environmentalists

In a previous post, reference was made to the necessity for the Christian to be...