THINKING OUT LOUD

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.

Latest

The Real Housewives of Padan-aram

By Natasha Moore | 12/03/2024

This week’s drama of Princess Kate and the Manipulated Photo has been hard to miss.

Winter Dreams

By Simon Smart | 01/03/2024

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.

Russia’s Mandela

By Natasha Moore | 22/02/2024

The hope was that he was Russia’s Mandela.

Tay-Tay the lament artist

By Max Jeganathan | 20/02/2024

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!

A world unhinged

By Tim Costello | 26/09/2023

In light of the UN Secretary-General’s recent comments, Tim Costello asks: has the institution of religion also become “unhinged”?

A lesson from a dictators’ playdate

By Max Jeganathan | 19/09/2023

Max Jeganathan on how the recent meeting between Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un highlights what real friendship is (and isn’t).

Fleeting days of glory

By Simon Smart | 15/09/2023

Simon Smart attends the Manly Sea Eagles Old Boys’ Day, and reflects on mortality and how fleeting our lives are.

Learning the secret of contentment

By Anna Grummitt | 08/09/2023

In the midst of the cost of living crisis, Anna Grummitt ponders some challenging words from the Apostle Paul.

Cost of living

By Emma Wilkins | 29/08/2023

CPX Fellow Emma Wilkins shares some of her reflections on the phrase we’re hearing all the time at the moment: “cost of living”.

Swing voters

By Natasha Moore | 22/08/2023

Natasha Moore reflects on the tribalism she’s seeing in the current debate in Australia around the Indigenous Voice to Parliament.

Green ants and ham

By Barney Zwartz | 15/08/2023

Barney Zwartz shares his personal experience of the many and varied forms of hospitality practiced by different cultures around the world.

Glorious inefficiency

By Emma Wilkins | 11/08/2023

In a week full of space news, Emma Wilkins responds to the argument that the vastness of the universe is proof that there is no God.