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October 2014

October 30, 2014

Counterfeit Realities and the Verbal Universe

The author Daniel Schwindt, who edits the website Solidarity Hall, recently released a book entitled...

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,...

March 2014

March 21, 2014

The Church & Bridging Cultures: Sr. Cristina & The Voice

By now, a number of readers would be familiar with the latest viral...

January 2014

January 24, 2014

Salvation & Other People

"Your Personal Lord and Saviour". It is a phrase bandied about by street...

December 2013

December 12, 2013

The Body Moral

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

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...

July 2013

July 12, 2013

Vile and Holy Bodies: Sacraments & Surgery

In a 2007 interview with The Other Journal, Eugene McCarraher from Villanova University spoke about...

May 2013

May 25, 2013

When Coffee Gets Martyred

The first line of Psalm 19 says that the heavens declare the glory of the...

May 09, 2013

Body and Will in Postmodernity

In medieval philosophy, "realism" is the idea that external realities defy the manipulations of our...

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...

October 2012

October 25, 2012

Story on a (Cancer) Stick: Commodities & the Crisis of Cultural Narrative

As an attempt to reduce smoking and its associated health costs, the Australian government will...

August 2012

August 09, 2012

The City and Running Away in “Dexter”

A previous post suggested that Christian theology requires a more thorough exploration on the theme...

June 2012

June 29, 2012

Children: The Public Dimension of Marriage

Gregory of Nyssa, one of the Fathers of the ancient church, once described marriage as...

June 01, 2012

Why the Best Sex is Boring

There are now a plethora of shows on TV and movies that propagate the idea...

May 2012

May 10, 2012

A Theology of Running Away?

One constant, but perhaps under-discussed, theme within pop culture is the theme of running away....

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...

March 2012

March 16, 2012

Saving Souls Through the Flesh?

The political philosopher Eric Voegelin long argued that Modernity was marked by an undercurrent of...

March 09, 2012

Play, Liturgy and the Salvation of the World

At a recent conference organised by the Australian Society for Continental Philosophy, delegates would have...

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...

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 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...

December 2011

December 09, 2011

The Biopolitics of Chest Hair

The centrefold of the 24 November 2011 edition of Sydney's mX tabloid featured an assortment...

October 2011

October 22, 2011

Should We Save Wikipedia?

PC World published an article concerning the outrage expressed by Wikipedia at the passing of...

October 15, 2011

The Mall as Monastary

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

July 2011

July 17, 2011

Monty Python and Philosophy: Need One Say More…?

The Popular Culture and Philosophy series of books look at the philosophical undercurrents in many...

June 2011

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 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...

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...