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September 2018

September 13, 2018

My Soul in a Fitbit: Spirit, Flesh & the Quantified Self

About a decade ago, Herve Juvin published The Coming of the Body, a magnificently frightening analysis...

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,...

March 2018

March 06, 2018

Blessed are the Meek: A Video for Common Grace

Readers might remember that, last year, I was invited to make a lenten video contribution...

April 2017

April 18, 2017

Podcast: “A Theology of Pop Culture” with PEACEcast

PEACEcast, a podcast spinoff of PEACEtalks (which is in turn a seminar series hosted by St...

March 2017

March 15, 2017

Playing for Eternity: The Sacraments of Pop Culture (Vodcast Now Available)

PEACEtalks, an initiative of St. George Anglican Church in Sydney, hosted the Divine Wedgie over the...

November 2016

November 01, 2016

Money as Sacrifice

The convention in this world is to see money as "the bottom line", a tangible...

February 2015

February 16, 2015

Nostalgia & Domination

Events, ages, places or people disappear from our lives all the time. More often...

July 2014

July 31, 2014

Postsecular Entertainment

Entertainment has often been the whipping boy of culture warriors, who cite anything from...

July 17, 2014

Is Christianity Addicted to Bass?

In Christian chant, particularly Gregorian and Byzantine chant, there exists a practice of underpinning a...

January 2013

January 14, 2013

The Most Read Posts of 2012

Weekly updates and the resultant flood of information can make it difficult at times to...

December 2012

December 20, 2012

Instagram and the Public Individual

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

June 2012

June 08, 2012

A Theology of Money with Philip Goodchild

The Art of the Good Life has alerted us to a fine video interview with...

May 2012

May 29, 2012

Food Fight: The Story of a Goulburn Valley Food Co-Operative

The theme of distributism has been neglected of late, and attached above is a short...

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...

January 2012

January 13, 2012

“How to be Oppressed by a Thermostat” and Other Future Events

Today marks the last day that the city of Las Vegas hosts the 2012 International...

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 31, 2011

The Problematique of “Relevant” Liturgical Music (And Happy New Year)

Liturgists are often keen to make liturgical music "relevant" for the people, and this attitude...

December 27, 2011

After Christmas, Small is STILL Beautiful: An Interview with Fritz Schumacher

As we consumers begin the annual scramble to get the latest instalment of the post-Christmas...

November 2011

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...

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 03, 2011

Nietzsche & Our Cyborgified Age

His woeful views on Christianity notwithstanding, the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche made many accurate insights about...

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...

August 2007

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...