Janice McRandal

Trigger Warning This piece discusses pedophilia and the role of young bodies in art.   “Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you’ve trained them.” Desiderius Erasmus   This week, Australian performer Sia… Continue reading

The Australian government is currently conducting a Royal Commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse. A major focus of this investigation has been the church; how the individual denominations have responded to allegations of sexual abuse, and how the… Continue reading

Deceptively brave and confronting, 52 Tuesdays tells the story of a mother and daughter each facing transition. For the mother, it is his personal transition into transgender identity; a coming out that happens in the opening scenes and through which… Continue reading

When I first started attending a Christian church, as a young adult, I was taken back with how much ‘hospitality’ talk was bandied about. It became very clear to me that Christian communities placed a high value on the notion… Continue reading

Several years ago I spent a few days in Las Vegas (my first time). There I discovered, while walking the strip, that there are locales in conservative America where one publically receives free and graphic pornography. The dozens of business… Continue reading

OK, so blog post discussions are not immune from derailment, and blog spots are hardly consistent in promoting the kind of discursive exchanges an optimist might assume. But Facebook does seem to promote a special kind of dialogue, one that… Continue reading

Optimism is clearly a condition of the Radical Orthodoxy imagination. This confidence is evident in the exegesis of theological tradition[1], the apologetics of Christendom, and especially in the efficacy of the Eucharist and liturgical formation. The claims regarding the Eucharist… Continue reading

  ‘But I was never as ironic as I tried to be. Really, I just wanted to be the girl who got into the boys’ club’. I am sure I am not the only woman in theology who resonated deeply… Continue reading

On Friday the Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced that all asylum seekers arriving on boats will be re-directed to the developing nation Papua New Guinea. After claims are processed those who are granted asylum (in recent history, over 90%… Continue reading