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December 2013

December 12, 2013

The Body Moral

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

December 03, 2013

The Church and Popular Culture: DePaul Winter Course Offering

The Department of Catholic Studies at DePaul University is inviting enrollment into one of its...

November 2013

November 21, 2013

Pain & Logos

In an interview with the Mars Hill Audio Journal, the Canadian theologian Hans Boersma...

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 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...

October 03, 2013

“St Evagrius of Pontus and Redeeming Time in Postmodernity” on The Other Journal

An essay by the Divine Wedgie's Matthew Tan was published on the American postmodern theological...

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...

September 05, 2013

The Borders of the Eucharist

Australia goes to the polls this week, and like many countries in the West, the...

August 2013

August 29, 2013

A Theology of Running Away: Available on Podcast

Readers may remember an old post on A Theology of Running Away, where the theme...

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...

July 18, 2013

Monasteries: “In” But Not “From”

James KA Smith has on his blog Fors Clavigera provided with a succinct yet incisive...

July 12, 2013

Vile and Holy Bodies: Sacraments & Surgery

In a 2007 interview with The Other Journal, Eugene McCarraher from Villanova University spoke about...

June 2013

June 21, 2013

Scribblings in Transition

A series of transcontinental transitions will temporarily affect the frequency of posts in the coming...

June 06, 2013

Sacramental Commodities

At an introductory Theology class at Campion College, mention was made of a marketing campaign...

May 2013

May 31, 2013

Redeeming Regret

Regret is a part of the life we live. While a number of regrets concern...

May 25, 2013

When Coffee Gets Martyred

The first line of Psalm 19 says that the heavens declare the glory of the...

May 16, 2013

Love is God?

Campion College yesterday hosted its monthly Campion Cafe Conversations, which asked the question "Is Romantic...

May 09, 2013

Body and Will in Postmodernity

In medieval philosophy, "realism" is the idea that external realities defy the manipulations of our...

May 03, 2013

A Digital Body of Christ?

The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference Communications Office this week published its contribution to mark the...

April 2013

April 26, 2013

Upcoming Event: Religious Vilification & Augustine’s Politics of Psalmody (29th May)

Campion College's political theology project, the Seminars in Political and Religious Life series, resume with...

April 04, 2013

“God of War”, the Democratisation of Rage & the Power of Easter

The gaming world recently welcomed the latest instalment of the God of War franchise with...

March 2013

March 28, 2013

Good Friday & the Prevailing Order (Repost)

A line in the Evening Liturgy of the Hours for Tuesday of Holy Week reminds...

March 14, 2013

Francis…What’s to a Name?

The Roman Catholic Church has elected Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires to be its...

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 13, 2013

Valentine’s Day: A Lenten Exercise

Valentine's Day has been set aside to celebrate the joys of human love. For many...

January 2013

January 31, 2013

Sunday as a Prophetic Act

We rarely think of days as being prophetic. Indeed, many Christians often treat our days...

January 24, 2013

Absurdity & Waiting on God

In introductory philosophy at Campion College, a theme that is touched upon is that of...

January 14, 2013

The Most Read Posts of 2012

Weekly updates and the resultant flood of information can make it difficult at times to...