Paul Tyson's Engagement Activities

• “Ricostruzione” Meeting di Rimini 2020 (Meeting per l’amicizia fra i popoli, run by the Italian Roman Catholic organization, Communion and Liberation). 17 August 2020 
• Launch, with Dr Jonathan Horton, QC, "Forum for Theology and Civics," Queensland Club, 23 November 2019.
• "On the Missing Theology in Political Science," Paper for a Political Theology Colloquium with Dr Jonathan Cole, Pilgrim College, University of Divinity, Melbourne, 7 November 2019.
• Areopagus Lecture: “Escaping the Silver Chair: renewed minds and our Christian vision of reality,” Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, Mars Hill Audio, 28 September 2018.
• New Norcia Institute Day Lecture: “Real Value and Meaning, for our times,” Institute for Benedictine Studies, New Norcia Monastery, Western Australia.  25 August 2018.
• Conference Paper: “The After Science and Religion Project.” Science, Imagination and Wonder – Robert Grosseteste and his legacy, Pembroke College, University of Oxford, 3-6 April 2018.

Audio Journal

• "Is Magic Real?" The Art of Inquiry with James Treeweke, Brisbane, 2 September 2020.
• “On resisting our modern assumptions about knowledge in favour of knowledge that is grounded in wonder.” Mars Hill Audio Journal 139, Part 2, section 2 (2018): https://www.marshillaudio.org/catalog/volume-139

Online peer reviewed conference papers:

• “A Post-secular approach to understanding Religion and Global Security.” Online Peer Reviewed Conference Publication for OCIS, the Oceanic Conference on International Studies, University of Queensland, July 2008.
• “Linking the Global Economy to the Global Ethic.” Refereed conference proceedings, QUT Social Change in the 21st Century, (Nov 2003).

Web Articles:

• "Virtual Gnosticism and the Church – some disturbing thoughts about covid19," Theopolis, 16 June 2020.
• "Open Bunnings, Closed Church on Maundy Thursday," Ethos, 29 April 2020.
• "Dawn Vigils in Lockdown… but it’s not Resurrection Sunday," Ethos, 24 April 2020.
• "Divine Judgement and the Ethics of Authenticity. Disturbing Thoughts on the COVID-19 Virus," The New Polis, 4 April 2020.
• "Why Sex and Religion Matter in Australian Politics," The New Polis, 31 December 2019.
• “The Prophetic Utterance of Greta Thunberg,” Open Democracy, 31 October 2019.
• “Greta Thunberg and Prophetic Utterance,” 3 October 2019, Ethos. Reposted on the Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale.
• “State of the Polity in Australia,” 21 June 2019, Open Democracy.
• “Scott Morrison’s Liberal Secularism: is it a good or a bad idea?,” Ethos, 4 April 2019.
• "Scott Morrison’s Pentecostalism in The Monthly and Eternity: On religion and power in 21st century Australia," Ethos, 17 March 2019
• “Towards Nazi Australia” Open Democracy, 2 December 2017. 
• “Manus Island and Spiritual Warfare” Open Democracy, 15 November 2017. 
• “Manus Island, Spiritual Warfare, and the Battle for The Soul of Australia.” Plan Be, 5 November 2017.
• "Review essay on “Adults in the Room” by Yanis Varoufakis." Open Democracy, 11 May 2017.
• “Trump and Australia." Ethos Blog: Australian Evangelical Alliance on-line forum,  6 December 2016. 
•  “How owning our own resentment can save Australian politics.” Thoughts for the post-2008 world, 10 November 2016.
• “Review Essay on Yanis Varoufakis’ And the Weak Suffer what they Must?” Open Democracy, 19 May 2016. 
• “Papua New Guinea High Court ruling: the asylum seeker detention centre on Manus Island must close." Open Democracy,  30 April 2016​.
•  “The Siren Song of Financial Realism” Open Democracy, 15 August 2015.
• “In favour of Varoufakis’ Plan B” Thoughts for the post-2008 world, 1 August 2015​. 
• “Varoufakis’ unspeakably shocking plan B” Open Democracy, 9 July 2015. 
• “Varoufakis – a new kind of politics?” Open Democracy, 25 July 2015. 
• “Oxi and Nai. What the Greek Crisis tells us about financial power and politics.” ABC Religion and Ethics Porthole, 20 July 2015; Centre of Theology and Philosophy, Nottingham University; Ethos Blog, 18 July 2015. 
• “Malcolm Fraser, the Last Statesman” Ethos Blog: Australian Evangelical Alliance on-line forum, 2 April 2015.
• “A critical response to Nick Jensen’s “Christians and Principles of Civil Disobedience.”” Ethos Blog: Australian Evangelical Alliance on-line forum, 3 December 2014. 
• “Whitlam and the ‘70s – never before, never again?” Ethos Blog: Australian Evangelical Alliance on-line forum, 3 November 2014. 
• “On the loss of the humanitarian significance of evidence in Australian Refugee and Asylum Seeker Policy.” Plan Be, 22 October 2014. 
• “The Minister and the Prophet: Scott Morrison, Jeremiah and the Silencing of Scripture.” Ethos: Australian Evangelical Alliance on-line forum, 1 July 2014. 
• “A pénz metafizikája.” Napi Gazdaság, Budapest,  7 July 2014​. 
• “The Metaphysics of Money.” Thoughts for the post-2008 world,  16 June 2014; The Naked Capitalist, a Modern Monetary Theory Blog, 15 June 2014;  Centre of Theology and Philosophy, University of Nottingham, 11 June 2014; ABC Religion and Ethics porthole, 6 June 2014. 
• “Is there Life after Money?” Thoughts for the post-2008 world, May 2014.
• "A Review of the Global Minotaur (2nd edition) from an Australian perspective; by Paul Tyson" Arjen polku, May 23, 2014. 
• “Asylum seekers – why we must get political.”  Ethos: Australian Evangelical Alliance on-line forum, October 2013. 
•  “Lest We Remember.”  Ethos: Australian Evangelical Alliance on-line forum, May 2012. 
• “James KA Smith, Secular Liturgies and the Holy Spirit.” Divine Wedgie, May 2012.
• “Symposium on Conor Cunningham’s Darwin’s Pious Idea.” ABC Religion and Ethics porthole,  24 June 2011.
• “Is Sunday School Theological Child Abuse?” Ethos: Australian Evangelical Alliance on-line forum, April 2011. 
• “Philosophy at Middlesex: Boethius and the barbarians re-visited.” Faith and Theology, 25 May 2010. 

Other publications:

• “Sexual and Gender Construction: from what, how far, to what end?” Zadok Perspectives, Melbourne, Issue 142, Autumn 2019, 14–15.
• "Is Medical Ethics Possible? Thoughts on the science/metaphysics/theology/ethics matrix," Luke's Journal 23.3 (2018): 4-6.
• “Precarious Work and Higher Finance” Zadok Papers, Melbourne, S235, Summer, 2018, 14– 16.
• “‘Survival of the fittest’ now the dominant ethic”, The Melbourne Anglican, Melbourne, No 566, February 2018, 26.
•  “Creation and Social Darwinism,” Zadok Perspectives, Melbourne, Issue 136, Spring, 2017, 7–10.
• “A Short Review essay of Yanis Varoufakis’ Adults In The Room,” Zadok Perspectives, Melbourne, Issue 136, Spring, 2017, 25–26.
• “Australian Evangelicals: of the world but not in the world?” Zadok Perspectives, Melbourne, Issue 134, Autumn, 2017, 19–22.
• “Secular Modernity: a problematic medieval theological construct?” Zadok Papers, Melbourne, S216, Summer 2016, 1–7
• “Religion, Global Security and the Administration of Fear,” Zadok Papers, Melbourne, S215, Spring 2016, 1–11.
• “Death, Darwin and Free Enterprise,” Zadok Perspectives, Melbourne, Issue 131, Winter, 2016, 4.
• “Post-Paris Politics: Us and Them,” Zadok Perspectives, Melbourne, Issue 130, Autumn, 2016, 4.
• “Post-political Power and the Media,” Zadok Perspectives, Melbourne, Issue 129, Summer, 2015, 4–5.
• “Into the Education Vortex,” Zadok Perspectives, Melbourne, Issue 127, Winter, 2015, 4.
• “Does Australia run death camps?” Zadok Perspectives, Melbourne, Issue 126, Autumn, 2015, 4.
• “The dark side of sunshine,” Zadok Perspectives, Melbourne, Issue 125, Summer, 2014, 4.
• “Mars and Venus in the Shopping Centre,” Zadok Perspectives, Melbourne, Issue 123, Winter, 2014, 4.
• “Producing food – why Christians (and churches!) should do it in their own back yards,”  Zadok Perspectives, Melbourne, Issue 122, Autumn, 2014, 5.
• “Conscience, Anabaptists and Medicine,” Luke’s Journal of Christian Medicine and Dentistry, Sydney, Vol. 18, No. 2, August 2013, 12–13.
•  “Fantasy and Reality,” Zadok Perspectives, Issue 121, Summer, 2013, 4.
•  “Politics: the bad news and the good news,” Zadok Perspectives, Melbourne, Issue 120, Spring, 2013, 5.
• “Does anyone out these have a secure and satisfying job?” Zadok Perspectives, Melbourne, Issue 119, Winter, 2013, 3.
• “An Evangelical Theology of Beauty?” Zadok Perspectives, Melbourne, Issue 118, Autumn 2013, 1.
• “A reflection on Psalm 127,” Zadok Perspectives, Melbourne, Issue 117, Summer, 2012, 5–6.
•  “Freedom,” Zadok Perspectives, Melbourne, Issue 116, Spring, 2012, 3.
• “Faith and Politics,” Zadok Perspectives, Melbourne, Iss. 115, Winter, 2012, 7
• “Why we should thank God for atheists,” Zadok Perspectives, Melbourne, Issue 114, Autumn 2012, 4.
• “Jacques Ellul’s theological vision of the socio-cultural drivers of ecological disaster,” Zadok Papers, Melbourne, S183, Winter 2011, 2–6.
• “The Shibboleth of Homosexuality,” Melbourne, Zadok Papers, S184, Winter 2011, 6-9.
• “Is Jesus a Muslim?” Zadok Perspectives, Melbourne, Iss. 112, Spring 2011, 6
•  “Santa is Lord,” Zadok Perspectives, Melbourne, Issue 109, Summer 2010, 20-21.
• “The Pedagogic Challenge.” Zadok Perspectives, Melbourne, Issue 107, Winter 2010, 8-9.