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December 2018

December 17, 2018

How a Train Ride Taught Me the Presence of God

I catch the train to work everyday, and being in Australia's unofficial bible belt means...

June 2018

June 25, 2018

What a Magpie Taught Me About the Spiritual Life

This week, I was reminded on social media about already dated, but still very endearing,...

May 2018

May 18, 2018

Christians, Let Us Type One Another

I have just finished the Netflix anime series Violet Evergarden, which looks at the life of...

April 2018

April 20, 2018

Awaiting God’s Fingerprints

Dr Anne Carpenter, an assistant professor of Theology at St. Mary's College and a fellow...

March 2018

March 29, 2018

Adam & His Passion

We are now entering the Triduum, to celebrate the passion of Jesus Christ. ...celebrate… How...

December 2017

December 15, 2017

The Vernacular of Pornography Part II: Our Pornographic Lives

Nota Bene: Before reading on, please click here to read "Part I: the Metaphysics of...

October 2017

October 13, 2017

Bodies Between Heaven & Earth

I have just started trawling through some old essays for tips for a potential project...

August 2017

August 18, 2017

Singing Psalms With Angels and Demons

There comes a point for those who do the Office of Readings where one has...

June 2017

June 29, 2017

Tracey Rowland on Zombie Jesus

The John Paul II Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame Australia, Tracey...

June 19, 2017

Mariology at the Beginning of the Third Millenium

A few years ago, I posted on the possibility of giving an epistemological twist on...

June 08, 2017

Only One A**hole in the Body of Christ, Please!

From a reader: There seems to be a fine line and a big difference between...

May 2017

May 16, 2017

Reflections of a Saint of Nagasaki

Who is Servant of God Takashi Nagai?

April 2017

April 04, 2017

The Laughing God

A problem many Christians face is being too serious. One can almost measure the level...

January 2017

January 24, 2017

Let My Porkchop Go: Against the Recruitment of Everything

...from a hungry massgoer... One Sunday after Mass, I went to the pub to get...

November 2016

November 07, 2016

The Vicious Ascetic

In the Christian tradition asceticism, or the deliberate denial of certain pleasures and appetites, is...

September 2016

September 20, 2016

Catfishing, the Synthetic Self & Confession

Readers of the Catholic blogosphere would by now be acquainted with Chase Padusniak (of Jappers...

September 11, 2016

The Tenacity of Tradition

The so called Age of Enlightenment, especially after Kant and Hegel, had a standard catch...

March 2016

March 26, 2016

The Lord’s Descent into Hell

Below is an excerpt from an ancient Holy Saturday Homily entitled "The Lord's Descent into...