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November 2018

November 20, 2018

Why Accusation Dehumanises, but Not in the Way You Think

The devil is known by many names. The most common one, Satan, is often used,...

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...

August 2017

August 11, 2017

Fidelity in Difference

Conform. That is the catchcry of a lot of Christians of varying stripes nowadays. Fidelity...

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...

March 2017

March 15, 2017

Playing for Eternity: The Sacraments of Pop Culture (Vodcast Now Available)

PEACEtalks, an initiative of St. George Anglican Church in Sydney, hosted the Divine Wedgie over the...

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 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 17, 2017

Prophecy & Architecture

While teaching political philosophy at Campion College Australia, one minor thread of the course related...

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...

November 2016

November 15, 2016

Things Themselves: Phenomenology After Trump

Or WWJD, as in "What Would Jean (Baudrillard) Do?" More on this later, but first,...

October 2016

October 04, 2016

Desire & Idolatry: After Debating

Elections come, elections go, but the media stands firm forever... Whilst another electoral debate has...

August 2016

August 22, 2016

On Being Migrant and Catholic

This post is a part of the Patheos Catholic Channel series, "Catholicity: Identity and Its...

June 2016

June 05, 2016

Homesickness for Alien Places

There are times when, after coming back from a sojourn overseas, we start pining for...

May 2016

May 23, 2016

Post-Materialism, Sacramentality & Marketing

A friend on social media once wondered out loud why a big telecommunications company would...

April 2016

April 17, 2016

Catholic Social Dispatches

With all the intense hypervigilence and dissection of the recent Apostolic Exhortation, Amoris Letitia,...

August 2013

August 23, 2013

Distributism & the Internet: The Case of B4RN

The BBC has this week provided one of those rare stories of encouragement in which...