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.
In the midst of the cost of living crisis, Anna Grummitt ponders some challenging words from the Apostle Paul.
CPX Fellow Emma Wilkins shares some of her reflections on the phrase we’re hearing all the time at the moment: “cost of living”.
Natasha Moore reflects on the tribalism she’s seeing in the current debate in Australia around the Indigenous Voice to Parliament.
Barney Zwartz shares his personal experience of the many and varied forms of hospitality practiced by different cultures around the world.
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.
Justine Toh reflects on her experience of conversing online with the newest Twitch chatbot: “AI Jesus”.
Justine Toh watches the Barbie film, and reflects on its exploration of our society’s collective angst over gender.
Tim Costello muses on the Ashes, Essendon Football Club, and whether there’s something truer about sport than the desire to win at all costs.
In a bout of insomnia, Natasha Moore reflects on what the biblical Psalms reveal about the mystery of sleep.
Anna Grummitt shares a personal story to counter recent claims that working from home is selfish and even immoral.
Simon Smart weighs in (with some imagined possibilities) on Jonny Bairstow’s controversial stumping in the second Ashes test match.
Barney Zwartz on what having 357 tabs open on the computer might reveal about the basic human desire for security.
