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November 2018

November 20, 2018

Why Accusation Dehumanises, but Not in the Way You Think

The devil is known by many names. The most common one, Satan, is often used,...

September 2018

September 14, 2018

Sloth: The Unseen Deadly Sin (Coming Next Sunday)

Wherein I get to talk about sloths! Oh... Readers in Sydney might be interested to...

July 2018

July 12, 2018

So a Catholic walks into a Pentecostal Lecture Theatre…

One of the joys of being a theologian is getting to know gifted theologians from...

May 2018

May 25, 2018

Christ the Eternal Beginning

At the end of the movie Knight of Cups, the final moment is marked by Rick,...

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...

September 2017

September 15, 2017

From the Vault: the Divine Wedgie Podcast Series

If you have been following the evolution of the Divine Wedgie over time, first up, a...

September 08, 2017

After Resurrection, the Holes…

I remember a line used by my catechism teachers when I was a kid that...

September 01, 2017

So You Think You Understand Mary?

In the Roman Catholic Church, there are two Marian dogmas, the celebration of which...

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 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...

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...

February 2017

February 15, 2017

Emptying Christ in Identity Politics

"Identity" has become a buzzword, peddled and circulated with increasing bombast in all manner of...

October 2016

October 11, 2016

How Should Christians Respond to “the Feels”?

The feels... Nowadays, it is used to describe two things at once. At one,...

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...

August 2016

August 22, 2016

On Being Migrant and Catholic

This post is a part of the Patheos Catholic Channel series, "Catholicity: Identity and Its...

August 15, 2016

Assumption: Personalising the Eschaton

The Austrian political philosopher Eric Voegelin, in spite of his championing of a participation in...

July 2016

July 26, 2016

Out Now: The Way of the Cross with Zombie Jesus

A previous post mentioned the imminent arrival of Matthew Tan's second book, Redeeming Flesh: the...

May 2016

May 07, 2016

Prayer After “The World Spins Madly On”

Almighty God, You moved your servant to listen to "The World Spins Madly On" by...

December 2015

December 01, 2015

Lament as Neo-Genesis

In a previous post, mention was made of a quote by St. Isaac the Syrian,...

February 2014

February 20, 2014

A Recipe Against Overspirituality

A recent conference on Pope Francis was held in downtown Chicago entitled New World Pope,...

February 13, 2014

True and False Martyrs

Below is an excerpt of Prayers by the Lake, written by the 19th-century Serbian Orthodox...

January 2014

January 03, 2014

Crying and the Life of the World to Come

Another year has passed, and with that comes the catharsis of committing yet another...

May 2013

May 25, 2013

When Coffee Gets Martyred

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

December 2012

December 13, 2012

Mary and the Power of God

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

October 2012

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...

July 2012

July 26, 2012

God & Caesar: A Question of Coins

In Matthew 22:21, Jesus used a coin, minted with the face of Caesar, as a...

July 20, 2012

Marian Epistemology

A previous post discussed the Pauline and Augustinian notion that we on this side of...