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August 2013

August 03, 2013

Why Plato Helps Christians in the Real World

Christians today often proudly declare their love for Aristotle. Catholics and a number of Protestants...

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...

June 2013

June 21, 2013

Scribblings in Transition

A series of transcontinental transitions will temporarily affect the frequency of posts in the coming...

June 14, 2013

Why Christians Should Shut Up

In his A Brief Reader on the Virtues of the Human Heart, Josef Pieper wrote...

June 06, 2013

Sacramental Commodities

At an introductory Theology class at Campion College, mention was made of a marketing campaign...

May 2013

May 03, 2013

A Digital Body of Christ?

The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference Communications Office this week published its contribution to mark the...

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...

April 12, 2013

Book Launch: On the Purpose of a University Education

Yesterday in Sydney, the Australian author, journalist and Member of Parliament Peter Coleman launched Campion...

April 04, 2013

“God of War”, the Democratisation of Rage & the Power of Easter

The gaming world recently welcomed the latest instalment of the God of War franchise with...

March 2013

March 21, 2013

Christianity & Paradox

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

January 2013

January 31, 2013

Sunday as a Prophetic Act

We rarely think of days as being prophetic. Indeed, many Christians often treat our days...

December 2012

December 28, 2012

The Third Coming of Christ

The Christian Church is three days into the Christmas season, the period that commemorates the...

December 20, 2012

Instagram and the Public Individual

Newspapers have today aired the story concerning the photo-sharing website Instagram. The company recently made...

December 13, 2012

Mary and the Power of God

Over the weekend, the Roman Catholic Church celebrated the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of...

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...

November 16, 2012

The Australian Child Abuse Royal Commission & the Redefining of Religious Liberty

This week, the Australian government announced the establishment of a Royal Commission into institutional child...

November 06, 2012

Catholic Social Teaching & Political Revival

Matthew Taylor of the BBC's Radio 4 has today provided a nuanced analysis of a...

November 01, 2012

Refugees and the Politics of All Saints Day

The Sydney Morning Herald yesterday reported on the Australian government's proposal to excise all of...

October 2012

October 18, 2012

On Liking the Gospel: the Church and New Media

There is a question hanging over the Church on what to do with New Media....

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...

September 2012

September 28, 2012

“Gangnam Style” & Evangelisation

A minor musical phenomenon has been the Korean pop (aka K-pop) song "Gangnam Style" by...

September 20, 2012

Jesus and the Restoration of Eden

Students at Campion College learn in their first year about the basics of Scripture, and the...

September 13, 2012

How Earthly was My City? A Tale of Two Augustines

The 11th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on 11th September 2001 and the killing of...

August 2012

August 30, 2012

Why Theology Should Kneel

Fr. Robert Barron, in a recent installment of his Word on Fire series of Youtube...

August 24, 2012

Religion & Politics: Campion College & ABC Radio

If the Pussy Riot incident in Russia, the conviction of some its members and some...

July 2012

July 13, 2012

On Liking the Gospel: The Church & New Media

There is a question hanging over the Church on what to do with New Media....

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...

May 2012

May 15, 2012

A Theological Response to Ecological Disaster

Matthew Tan has, together with Paul Tyson of the Australian Catholic University, recently published an...

May 08, 2012

Follow Up to the Australian Catholic Media Congress

The Australian Catholic Media Congress, held last week in Sydney, brought together bloggers, academics, journalists...