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.
Natasha Moore reflects on how Sally Rooney’s newest novel features Jesus, and the search for meaning in the “real world”.
Justine Toh spends $3.50 on a single lockdown mango, and celebrates what it heralds: summer days to come, and renewed hope.
A personal experience of a friend’s bushwalking injury leads Simon Smart to reflect on what it’s like to live in this particular time and place.
In the wake of the cheating scandals on The Block, Mark Stephens considers how hard it is to confess wrongdoing.
This International Literacy Day, Natasha Moore celebrates the fact that the goal of universal literacy is so widely held, and ferociously pursued.
Justine Toh asks herself why she’s craving the ocean – salt water, sea wind, coastal walks, the immensity of it all – especially in lockdown.
Barney Zwartz on loneliness, belonging, and building community during lockdown.
Mark Stephens reflects on how our characters are formed in light of the story of former Chicago Bulls legend Luc Longley.
Simon Smart responds to the news coming out of Afghanistan, and advocates for a generous welcome of Afghani refugees.
Natasha Moore ponders what 14th-century anchoress Julian of Norwich might teach us about holding onto hope in difficult times.
Tim Costello reflects on the lockdown blues, pandemic pressures, and the one thing that’s renewing his hope in this difficult time.
Simon Smart on why we should stop saying “you can achieve anything you want if you just try hard”.
