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August 2013

August 09, 2013

Faith in Space

In an interview with Eric Jacobsen on Mars Hill Audio Journal, Ken Myers hinted at...

July 2013

July 25, 2013

Christians and Crises

Crises are politically useful gimmicks. Whether it is economic meltdowns, asylum seekers, cabinet reshuffles, sex...

May 2013

May 31, 2013

Redeeming Regret

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

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...

February 2013

February 07, 2013

Discipleship in Your Sleep

In the monastic life, every single day is bookended by the recitation of the Liturgy...

October 2012

October 11, 2012

Smartphones, Memory and the Cross

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

October 04, 2012

Bonaventure, Francis & the End of the World

Today the Church celebrates the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, arguably the most well...

March 2012

March 06, 2012

Why It’s Good that Priests are Like Pokemon

Bad Catholic recently published a delightful post entitled "Priests and Pokemon". The post draws a...

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 17, 2012

Reverence is Rebellion

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

December 2011

December 17, 2011

Why a Liberated Economy Must be Exclusive and Hierarchical

Readers who may have had some interest in Campion College's Conference on "Faith in the...

November 2011

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...

August 2011

August 31, 2011

Consumerism and Refugees

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

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 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 11, 2011

Sayings of the Saints: Charles de Foucauld

Brother Charles of Jesus (1858-1916, more commonly known as Charles de Foucauld) underwent a process...

June 2011

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 20, 2011

Practice, Identity and Amazonians

Friday's online edition of the BBC had a report about a fascinating, if somewhat controversial,...

May 08, 2011

St. Therese, Ecclesial Politics and the Redemption of Micropractice

St. Therese of Liseux was a Carmelite nun who died in 1897 at the young...

May 04, 2011

Benedictine and Commercial Liturgies: A View from Norcia

Norcia, a tiny town in the Italian region of Umbria, is noted for two things....

April 2011

April 22, 2011

Good Friday, the Cross and the Prevailing Order

A line in Tuesday evening's reading for the Liturgy of the Hours reminds us of...

October 2009

October 28, 2009

Ecclesial Politics and the Redemption of Time

...to a time when truth exists, to a time when thought is free...from the age...

September 2007

September 20, 2007

Cloning, the Church and the State

A 20th September reprt from The Age has provided a follow up on the recent...

August 2007

August 20, 2007

Blessed are the Chokeholders…

A 20th Aug 2007 edition of Australia's ABC Four Corners Program sought to provide an...