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Save the Date: Dreaming with Demons & the Vice of Sloth
Like any good Asian, I will be starting the new year with a speaking gig!...
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Images & Idolatry: What Christians Can Learn from Cultural Marxism
Introduction Most of the time, when Catholics use the term "Cultural Marxism" they mean to...
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The 3 Stages of Advent Waiting
Sunday marked the first day of Advent, the season of waiting for the coming of...
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Vice is the Opiate of the Masses
A diagnosis that is common to the thought of Nietzsche and Marx concerns the pacifying...
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Romano Guardini & the Heft of Heaven
Social media reminded me that, a year ago today, I wrote a post concerning the...
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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...
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August 30, 2018
How the Sin of Sloth Helped Me Decode “Crazy Rich Asians”
I had the chance to see Crazy Rich Asians in the movies. It features a...
August 24, 2018
Fragments of the Postsecular
In my paper "Christ in Hyperreality", I reiterated the point put forward earlier by William...
July 2018
July 24, 2018
Christ in Hyperreality: Cultural Marxism, Kulturkritik & Fake News (Podcast Now Out)
A couple of weeks ago, the Perth-based Dawson Society for Philosophy and Culture held their...
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April 27, 2018
Surprise: an Anthropology
As a creature of habit, I do not like surprises. I like the routine and...
April 04, 2018
When Silence is God’s Language
In his A Brief Reader on the Virtues of the Human Heart, Josef Pieper wrote...
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The Saving Gathering
A colleague's wife noticed that I had on my shelf A Distant Prospect, a novel set...
March 13, 2018
Coming Soon: Porn and “the Killing”
I have been kindly invited by the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on...
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...
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February 12, 2018
Suggestion for Lent: The Way of the Cross with Zombie Jesus
Lent is a time of penance, a time where self-aggrandisement has no place and where...
February 01, 2018
Then When Your Dreams Come True…the Trauma
The old cliche goes that the other most terrible thing in the world is getting...
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December 22, 2017
Dumping Christ for the ‘Crisis’
Crises are useful gimmicks, whether it is economic meltdowns, climate change, immigration, cabinet reshuffles, sex...
December 01, 2017
…The Meek…
Common Grace, an organisation that describes itself as a "movement of Christians passionate about Jesus...
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November 17, 2017
This New Mercy
We talk a lot about how bad sin is, and it is bad. As Augustine...
October 2017
October 20, 2017
The Heft of Heaven
Almost twenty years ago, Goo Goo Dolls made a name for themselves with a song...
October 13, 2017
Bodies Between Heaven & Earth
I have just started trawling through some old essays for tips for a potential project...
October 06, 2017
Nostalgia, Reality & the Voice of God
I had trouble sleeping last week. I would wake up in the middle of the...
September 2017
September 29, 2017
Scattered & Gathered: Catholics in Diaspora
The good folk at Wipf & Stock have just published the third volume in their "Studies...
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...
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August 25, 2017
Towards a Kenotic Identity Politics: Migration, Transformation & the Eucharist
I recently had the pleasure of being part of a symposium on Religion and the Humanitarian...
August 18, 2017
Singing Psalms With Angels and Demons
There comes a point for those who do the Office of Readings where one has...
August 11, 2017
Fidelity in Difference
Conform. That is the catchcry of a lot of Christians of varying stripes nowadays. Fidelity...
July 2017
July 25, 2017
God and the Pink Elephant
At a seminar on zombies (yes, I am still on the promotional path for the Redeeming...
July 13, 2017
Out of Body, Out of Mind
In 1975, long before the age of social media, an experiment was conducted at...
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