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May 2016

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 03, 2016

When What We See Is What We Worship

The old saying goes that the “eyes are the windows to the soul”, and many...

March 2016

March 20, 2016

Dance & Transcendance

There is something uncanny about the subgenre of electronica broadly called "dance music". In sample...

February 2016

February 15, 2016

New Essay: Sarah Coakley and the Prayers of the Digital Body of Christ

Janice McCrandal, lecturer in theology at Trinity Theological College in Brisbane, has edited a new...

September 2015

September 14, 2015

Speaking Dates in Victoria

Blogger at large at the Divine Wedgie, Matthew Tan, will be giving a series of...

May 2015

May 05, 2015

Take Me With You: A Theology of Running Away

Readers may remember an old post from 2012 where suggestions were made on the construction...

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...

February 2015

February 09, 2015

The Postsecular Zombie

One research thread on an upcoming project on zombies concerns the liminal space that...

January 2015

January 21, 2015

The Eucharist & the Zombie Apocalypse

Many often talk about cities as being soul destroying, whether it is in reference to...

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...

November 2014

November 21, 2014

Souls in Space

A previous post on the longing for spaces once traversed elicited a higher-than-usual response...

November 06, 2014

Romancing the Stones

Sometimes, living in one city after a long period spent in another, means that the...

October 2014

October 02, 2014

Australian Launch: Justice, Unity & the Hidden Christ

Readers in the Sydney area might be interested to know that there will be an...

September 2014

September 15, 2014

Dali’s Corpus Hypercubus

In Australasia, the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross is followed immediately by...

August 2014

August 29, 2014

The Third Schism

Robin Parry, an editor in the theological publishing house, Wipf & Stock, and Andrew G....

July 2014

July 31, 2014

Postsecular Entertainment

Entertainment has often been the whipping boy of culture warriors, who cite anything from...

July 17, 2014

Is Christianity Addicted to Bass?

In Christian chant, particularly Gregorian and Byzantine chant, there exists a practice of underpinning a...

June 2014

June 27, 2014

On Last Times…

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

June 11, 2014

The Love of Many Lands: An Augustinian Theology of Migrant Identity

The Center for World Catholicism and Intercultural Theology at DePaul University recently held its 2014....

May 2014

May 01, 2014

Ecumenism, Abortion and Consumerism: Texts Available Online

The good folk at Wipf and Stock have made available a sample chapter of Justice,...

April 2014

April 03, 2014

Free Panel Presentation: An Augustinian Theology of Migrant Identity

Readers in the Chicago area might be interested in a free event next week,...

February 2014

February 28, 2014

Book Launch: Justice, Unity & the Hidden Christ

Readers in Chicago might be interested to know that Justice, Unity and the Hidden Christ:...

February 06, 2014

“Theology, Philosophy & the Mass” Part I: Epistemology

The Sydney-based internet radio station Cradio has this week released a podcast of the first...

January 2014

January 31, 2014

Evil: Good’s Parasite

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

January 17, 2014

Justice, Unity & the Hidden Christ: New Book by Matthew Tan

The theological publishing house Wipf & Stock has released the first book by the Divine...

December 2013

December 19, 2013

Chesterton on Paganism and Christianity

Christians are often found bewailing the possibility that we are returning to the time...

December 12, 2013

The Body Moral

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

August 2013

August 29, 2013

A Theology of Running Away: Available on Podcast

Readers may remember an old post on A Theology of Running Away, where the theme...