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May 2012

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 20, 2012

Humans, Faith and Attack Drones

Glenn Greenwald of Salon wrote a piece concerning the issue of the increasing trend of...

March 2012

March 23, 2012

Sertillanges on the Intellectual Vocation

The Dominican intellectual Antonin Gilbert Sertillanges wrote in the 1920s a book entitled The Intellectual...

March 12, 2012

A Response to Newt Gingrich from the Front Porch: A Biography of Saul Alinsky

Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich made a remark as part of his campaign that "the...

February 2012

February 28, 2012

Are We Too Human?

Philosophers in the tradition of Nietzsche will echo his lament that "we are human, all...

January 2012

January 30, 2012

Prayer and Blogging with Benjamin Myer

Benjamin Myer, a theologian from the United Theological College in Parramatta and author at large...

January 10, 2012

Pope Benedict XVI and the Future of Capitalism

Adrian Pabst, Lecturer in Politics at the University of Kent has edited a book in...

January 07, 2012

Beyond 12 Days of Christmas: Feasts of the Epiphany and Mary the Mother of God

The combination of a well entrenched secularism and the intensification of consumer culture has led...

December 2011

December 17, 2011

Why a Liberated Economy Must be Exclusive and Hierarchical

Readers who may have had some interest in Campion College's Conference on "Faith in the...

November 2011

November 29, 2011

The Vatican and Famine: an Interview with Athanasius McVay

Ukrainians are currently commemorating the anniversary of what is known as the Holodomor, a famine...

November 21, 2011

Online Symposium on the Future of Seminaries

The religious blog portal Patheos is running an online symposium entitled "The Future of Seminary...

November 18, 2011

Does Facebook Cause Divorce?

Patrick Deneen of the Front Porch Republic has written a highly instructive piece in response...

November 11, 2011

Protestant Monasticism: An Interview with Shane Claiborne

Many protestants of the Evangelical persuasion, especially those in the Emergent Church movement, are rediscovering...

October 2011

October 18, 2011

How to Bless Beer: the Rituale Romanum

As a follow up to two previous posts featuring quotes on drinking by GK Chesterton...

August 2011

August 19, 2011

Religious Education in Secular Society: A View from Dr. Joel Hodge

Dr Joel Hodge, a Systematic Theologian at the Australian Catholic University, recently wrote on the...

August 03, 2011

Evaluation on a Comedian’s Spiritual Journey on the ABC: Implications for Evangelisation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation recently began a series on the exploration of faith, spearheaded by...

July 2011

July 28, 2011

The State of Undergraduate Education: A view from the Front Porch

Wilson Carey McWilliams from the Front Porch Republic has written extensively and very insightfully on...

July 22, 2011

Rene Girard, Religion and Violence

The French literary theorist/philosopher/theologian Rene Girard made a great contribution in our understanding of the...

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 22, 2011

Betrayed by Technology: An interview with Jacques Ellul

The 24th of June begins a week-long conference in Krakow organised by the Centre for...

June 19, 2011

Consumerism and Christianity: An Interview with William Cavanaugh

The protestant website 100Huntley.com recently did a a short but highly informative interview with the...

June 12, 2011

The Unseen Hazards of Technologically Enhanced Liturgy

We talk a lot about the hidden dangers in our food brought about by the...

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 15, 2011

The Clock, Secular Culture and the Noontime Demon

An earlier post spoke of the importance of the constructed nature of how we in...

April 2011

April 14, 2011

Adatto, Technology and Confession

A recent Mars Hill Audio Journal interview with Kiku Adatto touched on the link between...

December 2007

December 15, 2007

Practices and the Conversion of the Social Imaginary: On Marriage

Below is an excerpt from the American Deacon Keith Fournier of Catholic Online. The article,...