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 light of a gender reveal party that started a huge wildfire in California, Natasha Moore reflects on unintended consequences.
Simon Smart reminisces about the Sydney Olympics, and how nostalgia for that time of community and celebration has greater weight in 2020.
Anna Grummitt reflects on the symbolism of the surprising survival of a colony of glow worms after the summer’s bushfires.
Richard Shumack on why he’s glad that after a long break, objective morality is back.
Mark Stephens on the award-winning documentary “Boys State”, and the importance of being willing to lose with and for your principles.
Barney Zwartz reflects on how the current pandemic has magnified his obsession with the news, and how this addiction comes at a cost.
Justine Toh on her longing for liturgy in a year when all rhythms have been disrupted by COVID-19.
Mark Stephens ponders whether our large hopes for big solutions to global problems might be pointers towards transcendence.
Tim Costello shares about the importance of focusing our attention on the pandemic’s impact on the world’s most vulnerable.
Natasha Moore reflects on the pessimism and apocalypticism of our times, and the value of stubbornly clinging to hope.
Simon Smart ponders “unconscious bias” towards Indigenous Australians, and how lives can be profoundly impacted by seminal moments.
Anna Grummitt reflects on a photo of a nurse holding three newborn babies after the Beirut blast, and finding hope amidst tragedy.
