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Like any good Asian, I will be starting the new year with a speaking gig!...

Introduction Most of the time, when Catholics use the term "Cultural Marxism" they mean to...

Sunday marked the first day of Advent, the season of waiting for the coming of...

A diagnosis that is common to the thought of Nietzsche and Marx concerns the pacifying...

Social media reminded me that, a year ago today, I wrote a post concerning the...

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

I had the chance to see Crazy Rich Asians in the movies. It features a...

In my paper "Christ in Hyperreality", I reiterated the point put forward earlier by William...

A couple of weeks ago, the Perth-based Dawson Society for Philosophy and Culture held their...

As a creature of habit, I do not like surprises. I like the routine and...

  In his A Brief Reader on the Virtues of the Human Heart, Josef Pieper wrote...

A colleague's wife noticed that I had on my shelf A Distant Prospect, a novel set...

I have been kindly invited by the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on...

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

Lent is a time of penance, a time where self-aggrandisement has no place and where...

The old cliche goes that the other most terrible thing in the world is getting...

Crises are useful gimmicks, whether it is economic meltdowns, climate change, immigration, cabinet reshuffles, sex...

Common Grace, an organisation that describes itself as a "movement of Christians passionate about Jesus...

We talk a lot about how bad sin is, and it is bad. As Augustine...

Almost twenty years ago, Goo Goo Dolls made a name for themselves with a song...

I have just started trawling through some old essays for tips for a potential project...

I had trouble sleeping last week. I would wake up in the middle of the...

The good folk at Wipf & Stock have just published the third volume in their "Studies...

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

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

I recently had the pleasure of being part of a symposium on Religion and the Humanitarian...

There comes a point for those who do the Office of Readings where one has...

Conform. That is the catchcry of a lot of Christians of varying stripes nowadays. Fidelity...

At a seminar on zombies (yes, I am still on the promotional path for the Redeeming...

  In 1975, long before the age of social media, an experiment was conducted at...