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What Good Friday and the Book of Job reveal about a world in crisis

ABC, Religion and Ethics, April 02, 2026

Louis Theroux and Dostoevsky both uncovered 'underground man'

(Financial Review, March 21, 2026)

Summer Down Under: Sharks, Exposure, and Ritual

(Faith, Hope & Fiction, March 14, 2026)

In an age of safety, why do we seek danger?

(Eureka Street, March 06, 2026)

Our politics has a Javert problem

(Eureka Street, February 13, 2026)

From Les Miserables to Trump - what happens when moral certainty hardens

(Pearls and Irritations, February 08/2026)

New Year's Day and the promise that does not last

(Pearls and Irritations, December 22/2025).

Trembling before the religion of AI

(Pearls and Irritations, December 14/2025)

Frankie Goes to Bethlehem: myth, music and the power of love

(Pearls and Irritations, December 13/2025)

Midnight Mass is where Christmas begins

(The Southern Cross, December 12/2025)

A Dogeared Christmas Transformation

(Faith, Hope & Fiction, December 11/2025)

When enchantment grows old: Van Morrison, Roger Waters, and the ‘fate of our times’

(Eureka Street, December 05/2025)

Eight-week Spiritual Sociology series

(Substack, Nov 02-Dec 25/2025)

Led Zeppelin, my band that never ‘made it’, and the lost art of failure

(Pearls and Irritations, November 30/2025)

Net Zero and the metaphysics of anxiety in Australia

(Pearls and Irritations, November 24/2025)

When Universities lose their transformative spirit

(Eureka Street,November 05/2025)

The gospel according to Cold Chisel

(Eureka Street, September 01/2025)

The genius of Beach Boy Brian Wilson: spiritual masterpieces built upon pop song formula

(The Australian, June 14, 2025)

How ‘Dark Spirituality’ can light the way for troubled youth

(The Australian,April 26/2025)

“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness”: Alexei Navalny's Christian witness is a spiritual beacon for the West

(ABC, February 20/2025)

Dark Spirituality - seeking spirituality outside of religion?