Articles in The Tablet

ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN THE TABLET:
where articles are free on the web, I've included the link to The Tablet website. Where they are available only to subscribers to The Tablet, I've included a link to an uploaded version from my own files, which may be slightly different from the edited version in The Tablet.

'Liberating Mary' - review of Tissa Balasuriya's book, Mary and Human Liberation, published 8 March 1997 (link to The Tablet website)

'Beauty Back on Camera' - article on the film American Beauty, published 26 February 2000 (link to The Tablet website)

'Mary as Everywoman' - reflection on a conference on Mary organised by the International Pontifical Academy, published 7 October 2000 (link to The Tablet website)

'Culture and the Cross' - article on Mel Gibson's film The Passion of the Christ and Grunewald's Isenheim Altar, published 8 April 2004 (link to The Tablet website)

'Feminism, Vatican-style' - article on the CDF letter to the bishop On the Collaboration of Men and Women in the Church, published 7 August 2004 (link to The Tablet website)

'Where was God?' - reflection on the South Asian tsunami, published 8 January 2005 (link to document - not currently available on The Tablet website)

'The Cosmic Eucharist' - reflection on Pope John Paul II's understanding of the Eucharist, published under the title 'A gathering at the family table' as part of a series reflecting on the Year of the Eucharist, 19 February 2005 (link to document - not currently available on The Tablet website)

'Just another election issue?' - article on the politics of abortion, published 19 March 2005 (link to The Tablet website)

'Simple Gaudete of a complex believer' - article on Andy Warhol's 'Nativity' on the cover of the Christmas edition, published on 17 December 2005 (link to The Tablet website)

'On Dover Beach with Richard Dawkins', article on the new atheists, published as 'Voice of Scientific Unreason', 28 January 2006 (link to PDF file - not currently available on The Tablet website)

'Evil cannot defeat evil' - an argument against nuclear weapons, written as a response to Michael Quinlan, published 8 July 2006 (link to document - click here for a link to The Tablet website)

'Face Values' - article on Muslim women and the veil, published 4 November 2006 (link to The Tablet website)

'Has liberation theology had its day?' - article on the influence and future of liberation theology, published 10 February 2007 (link to The Tablet website)

'Simple Grace' - article on the Livesimply campaign, published 17 February 2007 (link to document - click here for a link to The Tablet website)

'Femininity within the Trinity' - a feminist defence of the baptismal formula, published 29 March 2008 (link to document - click here for a link to The Tablet website)

'An Immense Maternal Presence' - reflection on the significance of Lourdes, published 13 September 2008 (link to The Tablet website)

'Thomas for our time' - edited version of the Gradwell lecture given at Liverpool Hope University on 7 May 2009, published 6 June 2009 (link to document - click here for a link to The Tablet website)

'Life in all its reality' - article on the conflict between Amnesty International and the Catholic Church over abortion, published 27 October 2007 (link to document - click here for a link to The Tablet website)

'Figure in Shadow' - review of the BBC1 drama series The Passion, published 22 March 2008 (link to The Tablet website)

'Deadlier sin of the male' - article on testosterone, sin and the economic crisis, published 7 March 2009 (link to The Tablet website)

'Garden of the New Eve: Eve and the Virgin Mary' - an article about the hortus conclusus in Christian art, published 19 December 2009 (link to PDF file - click here for a link to The Tablet website)

'In the Balance: Morality of Abortion 2' - a reflection on the excommunication of Sister Margaret McBride over the termination of a pregnancy at St. Joseph's Hospital, Phoenix, Arizona, published 5 June 2010 (link to The Tablet website).

'More Wistful than Wise' - reflection on Pope Benedict XVI, written as part of the 'Understanding Benedict' series, published 7 August 2010 (link to click here for a link to The Tablet website)

'Shared Endeavours: the theological vision of Pope Benedict XVI' - reflection on the theology of the Pope's talks during his visit to Britain in September 2010, published 25 September 2010 (link to document - click here for a link to The Tablet website)

'Rape, Violence and Confusion' - article on the sexual abuse of women and the limits of the law, published under the title 'It's still a man's world: The trouble with sex - 2: morality and the law', published 28 May 2011 (link to document - click here for a link to The Tablet website)