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May 2015

May 29, 2015

When the Possible is Life and the Actual is Death

In The Coming of the Body, Herve Juvin spoke of the production of the endless...

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...

April 2015

April 24, 2015

Crunchy-Conservatism, Migrants & Pope Francis

"Crunchy-conservatives" in the United States have started organising against the neoliberal and faux-conservative...

April 13, 2015

The Feudalisation of Quiet

If there is one thing that the Justine Sacco AIDS tweet fiasco has proven, is...

March 2015

March 03, 2015

Death Drive Jesus

Contrary to popular belief, the materialist notion that all the question of what is needed...

February 2015

February 16, 2015

Nostalgia & Domination

Events, ages, places or people disappear from our lives all the time. More often...

January 2015

January 21, 2015

The Eucharist & the Zombie Apocalypse

Many often talk about cities as being soul destroying, whether it is in reference to...

December 2014

December 31, 2014

The Most Read Posts of 2014

As we sit on the threshold of another new year, it is time to...

December 11, 2014

Theology of the Body & the Torture Report

In an old post, mention was made of the moral exhortations that abound within our...

December 04, 2014

Advent and the Comings of Christ

Amidst the onslaught of tinsel, Christmas sales, exhortations by ostensibly Christian politicians to spend more...

November 2014

November 27, 2014

The Rosary & Feminism

In the preamble of his apostolic letter Rosarium Virginis Mariae, St. John Paul II...

November 21, 2014

Souls in Space

A previous post on the longing for spaces once traversed elicited a higher-than-usual response...

November 14, 2014

Conservative Zombies & Other Readings

A lot of highly informative resources have come out on newsfeeds in recent weeks, so...

November 06, 2014

Romancing the Stones

Sometimes, living in one city after a long period spent in another, means that the...

September 2014

September 15, 2014

Dali’s Corpus Hypercubus

In Australasia, the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross is followed immediately by...

August 2014

August 29, 2014

The Third Schism

Robin Parry, an editor in the theological publishing house, Wipf & Stock, and Andrew G....

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...

August 09, 2014

Prayer as Political Theory

The political science journal "Politics, Religion & Ideology" has kindly provided an advanced online copy...

July 2014

July 17, 2014

Is Christianity Addicted to Bass?

In Christian chant, particularly Gregorian and Byzantine chant, there exists a practice of underpinning a...

June 2014

June 27, 2014

On Last Times…

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

June 11, 2014

The Love of Many Lands: An Augustinian Theology of Migrant Identity

The Center for World Catholicism and Intercultural Theology at DePaul University recently held its 2014....

April 2014

April 11, 2014

Sin, Multiplicity and Relation

The French Jesuit, Henri de Lubac, provided a fascinating overview of the patristic link between...

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 14, 2014

Outrageous Fortunes and Comforting Providence

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

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:...

February 06, 2014

“Theology, Philosophy & the Mass” Part I: Epistemology

The Sydney-based internet radio station Cradio has this week released a podcast of the first...

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...

December 2013

December 19, 2013

Chesterton on Paganism and Christianity

Christians are often found bewailing the possibility that we are returning to the time...