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November 2015

November 03, 2015

The Curse of the Conference Q&A Oration

Conferences can be enlightening. They can also be forums when otherwise even mannered intellectuals descend...

July 2015

July 17, 2015

The Media as Liturgy

A recent Spirit in the City day conference at the Queensland University of Technology featured the...

June 2015

June 08, 2015

Metaphysics & Pornography

A previous post mentioned how we now live in a world where possibilities trump realities,...

April 2015

April 13, 2015

The Feudalisation of Quiet

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

February 2015

February 25, 2015

Faith in the Church of Facebook

The folk at Mount St. Mary's University's Journal of Moral Theology have earlier this year released a...

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...

August 2014

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...

May 2014

May 15, 2014

Graphics and Augustine: the Lust to be Dominated

Newscasters have had a field day with the take up of the "#BringBackOurGirls" online campaign,...

December 2013

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...

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...

September 2013

September 12, 2013

Networked Loneliness: the Paradox of Smartphones and What it Means for the Church

Smartphones are not just about the device and the user, and yet, what happens when...

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...

May 2013

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 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...

January 2013

January 14, 2013

The Most Read Posts of 2012

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

December 2012

December 20, 2012

Instagram and the Public Individual

Newspapers have today aired the story concerning the photo-sharing website Instagram. The company recently made...

October 2012

October 18, 2012

On Liking the Gospel: the Church and New Media

There is a question hanging over the Church on what to do with New Media....

October 11, 2012

Smartphones, Memory and the Cross

The smartphone has become the sacrament (James KA Smith calls it the "liturgical instrument") of...

July 2012

July 13, 2012

On Liking the Gospel: The Church & New Media

There is a question hanging over the Church on what to do with New Media....

June 2012

June 22, 2012

On Education and Smartphones

Smartphones have irreversibly changed the way of computing. In a space of less than 30...

June 18, 2012

Upcoming Engagements: On the Liberal Arts, Dignity, New Media and Health Insurance

Readers might be interested to know of a number of conferences and presentations pertaining to...

May 2012

May 08, 2012

Follow Up to the Australian Catholic Media Congress

The Australian Catholic Media Congress, held last week in Sydney, brought together bloggers, academics, journalists...

May 04, 2012

What the Church Offers to Grieving Players of “Mass Effect 3”

Internet fora have been burning hot processing posts expressing shock and anger at a seemingly...

April 2012

April 30, 2012

Cyberculture and Dreamworld: A view from Opus Dei?

The all-pervasive push to have everything online, whether it be books, files or selves, bepseaks...

April 26, 2012

Coming Up: Saving Cyberculture, Natural Law & Biblical Self-Deception

A number of important conferences and seminars are coming up that might interest Australian readers,...

April 20, 2012

Humans, Faith and Attack Drones

Glenn Greenwald of Salon wrote a piece concerning the issue of the increasing trend of...

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...

January 2012

January 30, 2012

Prayer and Blogging with Benjamin Myer

Benjamin Myer, a theologian from the United Theological College in Parramatta and author at large...

January 13, 2012

“How to be Oppressed by a Thermostat” and Other Future Events

Today marks the last day that the city of Las Vegas hosts the 2012 International...

November 2011

November 18, 2011

Does Facebook Cause Divorce?

Patrick Deneen of the Front Porch Republic has written a highly instructive piece in response...