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November 2011

November 05, 2011

Whose Green? Which Man?

Courses in political ideologies will almost inevitably cover the green movement or ecologism in some...

October 2011

October 27, 2011

Combine a Room, a Pope and a Feminist and…

Amidst the storm of concern voiced by population alarmists at the imminent arrival of the...

October 15, 2011

The Mall as Monastary

A recent news report touched on upcoming designs of new shopping centers. According to some...

October 08, 2011

Video Games, Reality and the Lifeworld of the Church

An article in the Herald Sun reported on the preliminary findings from research on a...

October 05, 2011

Educational Excellence for Christians: A Podcast

Nathan Kerr, Assistant Professor in Religion at the Trevecca Nazarene University in the United States,...

August 2011

August 26, 2011

Text, Beauty and Community

Neil Postman, an American media theorist associated with New York University, wrote a passage that...

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 10, 2011

The City and the Monastery According to a Protestant Poet

A recent study was released that looked at the ill effects of city life that...

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...

June 2011

June 25, 2011

The Definition of a Liberal Nowadays

The American radical social activist Saul Alinsky has been dubbed as one of the "great...

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 06, 2011

Sayings of the Saints: Pope Benedict XVI

This post is a continuation of a series of short posts labelled "Sayings of the...

May 2011

May 28, 2011

What the Entertainment Society Really Wants to Tell You

We live in a cultural milieu in which "fun" has become the highest good. This...

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...

December 2007

December 11, 2007

Proposal for Australian 2 Child Policy

A 10th December edition of the Herald Sun reported on a proposal by Perth Associate...

October 2007

October 21, 2007

Hail the New Caesar!

On the 9th September 2007, a member of the episcopacy of the Underground Church, Bishop...

August 2007

August 20, 2007

Blessed are the Chokeholders…

A 20th Aug 2007 edition of Australia's ABC Four Corners Program sought to provide an...

August 02, 2007

Faith, Fiction and the Need for Both

The Author very recently took out Stranger than Fiction from the local video store. Having...