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March 2012

March 02, 2012

Communication, Form, and Place

Steve Martin once said that you cannot play a sad song on a banjo, indicating...

February 2012

February 23, 2012

Christian and Cybernetic Time: The Case of Facebook’s Timeline

Kirk Bozeman has provided a thought-provoking piece in Christ and Pop Culture concerning the latest...

February 17, 2012

The Ecclesiology of the HHS Mandate

Readers may have been following with varying degrees of concern the recent ruckus concerning the...

February 10, 2012

The Epistemology of the Mass

In a culture dominated by the consumer mindset, many tend to treat the Mass as...

February 03, 2012

What is a Christian Revolution?

In the Old Testament, the prophecies in the Book of Daniel speak of a time...

January 2012

January 27, 2012

Melinda Tankard Reist: Right-Wing Fundamentalist Feminist or Just Plain Feminist?

Readers in Australia (and no doubt a few overseas) may be aware of an ongoing...

January 24, 2012

Secular Cathedrals, Darth Vader and Other Guest Posts

Below are a set of links to a number of guest posts written in the...

January 17, 2012

Reverence is Rebellion

Bad Catholic recently put up a post regarding the posture of prayer, or more specifically,...

January 07, 2012

Beyond 12 Days of Christmas: Feasts of the Epiphany and Mary the Mother of God

The combination of a well entrenched secularism and the intensification of consumer culture has led...

December 2011

December 31, 2011

The Problematique of “Relevant” Liturgical Music (And Happy New Year)

Liturgists are often keen to make liturgical music "relevant" for the people, and this attitude...

November 2011

November 21, 2011

Online Symposium on the Future of Seminaries

The religious blog portal Patheos is running an online symposium entitled "The Future of Seminary...

November 11, 2011

Protestant Monasticism: An Interview with Shane Claiborne

Many protestants of the Evangelical persuasion, especially those in the Emergent Church movement, are rediscovering...

November 05, 2011

Whose Green? Which Man?

Courses in political ideologies will almost inevitably cover the green movement or ecologism in some...

October 2011

October 15, 2011

The Mall as Monastary

A recent news report touched on upcoming designs of new shopping centers. According to some...

October 08, 2011

Video Games, Reality and the Lifeworld of the Church

An article in the Herald Sun reported on the preliminary findings from research on a...

October 05, 2011

Educational Excellence for Christians: A Podcast

Nathan Kerr, Assistant Professor in Religion at the Trevecca Nazarene University in the United States,...

September 2011

September 22, 2011

On being Progressive or Conservative – and Why it Sucks

GK Chesterton once noted in 1924 on the growing convergence of all political opinion into...

August 2011

August 31, 2011

Consumerism and Refugees

Today, the High Court of Australia ruled as illegal a proposed "refugee swap" program between...

August 26, 2011

Text, Beauty and Community

Neil Postman, an American media theorist associated with New York University, wrote a passage that...

August 20, 2011

World Youth Day Protests and the Universality of Economics

One should find interesting that, in the face of a slew of possible arguments protesters...

August 19, 2011

Religious Education in Secular Society: A View from Dr. Joel Hodge

Dr Joel Hodge, a Systematic Theologian at the Australian Catholic University, recently wrote on the...

August 03, 2011

Evaluation on a Comedian’s Spiritual Journey on the ABC: Implications for Evangelisation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation recently began a series on the exploration of faith, spearheaded by...

July 2011

July 28, 2011

The State of Undergraduate Education: A view from the Front Porch

Wilson Carey McWilliams from the Front Porch Republic has written extensively and very insightfully on...

July 22, 2011

Rene Girard, Religion and Violence

The French literary theorist/philosopher/theologian Rene Girard made a great contribution in our understanding of the...

June 2011

June 19, 2011

Consumerism and Christianity: An Interview with William Cavanaugh

The protestant website 100Huntley.com recently did a a short but highly informative interview with the...

June 15, 2011

Advertising Implanting Memories: Neuroscientific Insights and Cultural Implications

In a recent Wired.com article, Jonah Lehrer referred to a neuroscientific experiment concerning marketing images...

June 12, 2011

The Unseen Hazards of Technologically Enhanced Liturgy

We talk a lot about the hidden dangers in our food brought about by the...

June 06, 2011

Sayings of the Saints: Pope Benedict XVI

This post is a continuation of a series of short posts labelled "Sayings of the...

June 03, 2011

Nietzsche & Our Cyborgified Age

His woeful views on Christianity notwithstanding, the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche made many accurate insights about...

May 2011

May 28, 2011

What the Entertainment Society Really Wants to Tell You

We live in a cultural milieu in which "fun" has become the highest good. This...