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August 2016

August 08, 2016

Time Travel: Closer Than You Think

Time travel evokes thoughts of the Tardis and "Back to the Future", where the outlandish...

August 01, 2016

A Narrated Corpse

In Who's Afraid of Postmodernism, James K.A. Smith alerted us to the work of the Canadian...

July 2016

July 26, 2016

Out Now: The Way of the Cross with Zombie Jesus

A previous post mentioned the imminent arrival of Matthew Tan's second book, Redeeming Flesh: the...

July 18, 2016

Freedom, Autonomy and Vice

A lunchroom discussion on suggestions for suitable relaxing reading to bring along on a Mediterranean...

July 13, 2016

Coming Soon: The Way of the Cross with Zombie Jesus

Cascade Books, the imprint of Wipf and Stock, will soon send to print the manuscript...

July 08, 2016

Free Symposium: Economy, Idolatry and Secularisation with William T. Cavanaugh (11th July)

Readers in the Sydney area might be interested to know that the University of Notre...

July 05, 2016

Selfies, Cake & Death

The Guardian's Rana Dasgupta recently wrote a piece concerning the now common practice of posting...

June 2016

June 28, 2016

Temptations of the “Everybody”

Nota Bene: Due to the impending porting of The Divine Wedgie to the Patheos Catholic...

May 2016

May 30, 2016

Simulations & Spouses

The popular philsophical writer Alain de Botton recently published an article in the New York...

May 23, 2016

Post-Materialism, Sacramentality & Marketing

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

May 15, 2016

Discerning Before Utopia

This post was spurred on by two things, a class given on discernment at Campion...

April 2016

April 25, 2016

Meaty Souls & the Death of Prince

People die everyday, sometimes in great numbers at a single time, from wars, genocides,...

April 17, 2016

Catholic Social Dispatches

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

April 11, 2016

Hangry Eyes: Our Ravenous Seeing

Eric Carmans Hungry Eyes is an awfully corny song which, combined to the dance moves and...

January 2016

January 16, 2016

Jesus, Jazz and Who We Are

A previous post explored the assertion by Lacanian psychoanalysis that a subject undergoes a kind...

December 2015

December 07, 2015

Fundamental Joy

It finally happened. In an interstate flight, the Pixar movie Inside Out was watched and,...

August 2015

August 20, 2015

The Magna Carta After 800 Years: A Day Conference (28 Nov, Sydney)

The Centre for the Study of Western Tradition at Campion College recently announced that...

May 2015

May 29, 2015

When the Possible is Life and the Actual is Death

In The Coming of the Body, Herve Juvin spoke of the production of the endless...

April 2015

April 24, 2015

Crunchy-Conservatism, Migrants & Pope Francis

"Crunchy-conservatives" in the United States have started organising against the neoliberal and faux-conservative...

March 2015

March 24, 2015

What UFOs Have To Do With Philosophy

The Centre for the Study of Western Tradition at Campion College is glad to host...

December 2014

December 11, 2014

Theology of the Body & the Torture Report

In an old post, mention was made of the moral exhortations that abound within our...

September 2014

September 04, 2014

The Lovesick Platonist

In the experience of heartbreak, one often senses a profound disconnection with the world. In...

June 2014

June 27, 2014

On Last Times…

When things, events and people are encountered for one last time, the character of the...

January 2014

January 31, 2014

Evil: Good’s Parasite

There is so much evil in the world. However, with the ubiquity of evil,...

December 2013

December 12, 2013

The Body Moral

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

October 2013

October 11, 2013

Tracey Rowland on Beauty and Salvation

The Perth-based Dawson Society hosted the John Paul II Institute's Prof. Tracey Rowland, who gave...

March 2013

March 21, 2013

Christianity & Paradox

Christians can be understandably enthusiastic about providing an apologetic for their faith when either questions...

March 07, 2013

Do We Matter in Particular?

An excellent post on despair on Catholic Kung Fu, written by Marquette University's Anne Carpenter,...

December 2012

December 07, 2012

Bodily Epistemology: the City and Plastic Surgery

The 2011 Spanish thriller The Skin I Live In (La Piel Que Habito), starring Antonio...

November 2012

November 22, 2012

The Church and the State of Exception

A famous stanza of The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats reads:Things fall apart; the...