Once a week, a member of the CPX team "thinks out loud" in public - offering not conclusions, but launching-off points for conversation about what's going on in the news right now, or in our cultural "moment".
As with everything CPX does, the goal is to reframe things - to edge our way together towards a more expansive public imagination when it comes to Christian faith and the contribution it has to make to our shared life.
Here's a collection of these columns. They are usually posted each Tuesday on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Justine Toh ponders: What is pleasure? Is it just about desire? Or are there deeper pleasures to be found in the normal gifts of life?
After the EURO 2020 final, Simon Smart ponders the “religious transformation” taking place in football (and elsewhere) in the UK.
Justine Toh reels from the stabbings at Bondi Junction and finds hope in the courageous acts of regular bystanders.
Simon Smart writes in the wake of the stabbing attack on Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel about the radical act of meeting hate with love.
Max Jeganathan on Bluey’s newest episode, “The Sign”.
Justine Toh laments the dating scene for the young women she knows. Where have all the nice single men gone?
Eliot Kern writes for CPX’s Thinking Out Loud on how we’re all wilfully blind to our mortality after witnessing a car crash.
Do you know the date of your death? It’s a morbid and somewhat silly question, I know. In Thomas Hardy’s […]
Allan Dowthwaite reflects on the human aspect of the Gaza/Israel War with his neighbour for CPX’s Thinking Out Loud.
Barney Zwartz writes about new stats from McCrindle about the behaviours of our beloved boomer generation for CPX’s Thinking Out Loud.
This week’s drama of Princess Kate and the Manipulated Photo has been hard to miss.
As the days grow gradually shorter and the first hint of cooler morning air appears, footy fans are turning their attention to the season ahead.
The hope was that he was Russia’s Mandela.
We’ve been through a lot, but we made it. 7 interest rate rises. A summer of floods. An uptick in national unemployment. Even a Prime Ministerial Valentine’s Day proposal. But it’s finally here. It’s Tay-Tay week in Australia!
