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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...

November 02, 2018

Biotechnocracy: Love, Faith and Reason in the Age of the Sexbot

More than 20 years ago, the Icelandic singer Björk released the single "All is Full...

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 03, 2018

Pornography: More Real than Reality Itself

One cold night, a Seattle teenager named Rosie Larsen is found murdered, her body stuffed...

May 2018

May 04, 2018

Power and Forgetting

At the end of the anime series Berserk 2017, viewers would finally have an explanation of the...

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 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...

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 15, 2017

The Vernacular of Pornography Part II: Our Pornographic Lives

Nota Bene: Before reading on, please click here to read "Part I: the Metaphysics of...

October 2017

October 20, 2017

The Heft of Heaven

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

September 2017

September 22, 2017

Spontaneous Personal Prayer is Superior, Right?

There is a memorable scene in an episode of the American television series Judging Amy (1999-2005). In...

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...

August 2017

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...

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...

May 2017

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...

May 02, 2017

God and Cigarettes

Five years ago, in an attempt to reduce smoking and its associated health costs, the...

March 2017

March 07, 2017

Derrida, Deconstruction & Salvation

‘Postmodern’ is a dirty word for Christians. In many parts of Christendom, it is associated...

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 15, 2017

Emptying Christ in Identity Politics

"Identity" has become a buzzword, peddled and circulated with increasing bombast in all manner of...

January 2017

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...

January 10, 2017

The Borderlands of Art & Worship

There is a third book in the works somewhere which will, when it finally comes...

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 01, 2016

The Train as Cloister

From a commuter...which could be the editor...or could not be... Trains are weird things... I...