WELCOME to Greg Moses' Home Page, such as it is:  beyond the taken for granted (or trying to be!).  It is mostly philosophy, spirituality and something like cultural studies.

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From this site you should be able to find, provisionally:

  • Articles and conference papers having to do with an extended philosophy of culture project focused on the development of 'Western' Modernity, How we got to where we are, where exactly are we, and where to go from here.  These come now in three parts (July 2022). 
    • First part is pre-2006, before I moved from full time teaching and research back into  pastoral work in Far North Queensland, the results making their way into a paper for a conference (on God Talk) in Bangalore, India in 2005, published 2006  (Go to Bangalore Paper 2006).
    • Second part is post retirement, starting in 2018, leading to a paper for another conference in Bangalore (On Harmony) in January 2019 (Go to Bangalore Paper 2019).  Part of this was published in an Australian Catholic journal The Swag in the Autumn of 2019 (Go to Swag Paper 1).  Bangalore Paper 2019 includes a summary of part of the 2006 paper as well as an earlier version of the article in The Swag: probably the place to go if you are in a hurry. 
    • July 2022:  there is now a 2022 update, written before the May Federal Election, to be published, all being well, in the Spring 2022 edition of The Swag.  I submitted too late to make the Winter edition.  Go to SwagMoses2022 .  This includes a first appropriation of the recently rediscovered work of the Italian philosopher Augusto Del Noce.
    • July 2024:  I have made some fairly substantial additions to this paper, to reflect further reading, mostly Del Noce, plus the publication of some Vatican documents.
    • For further reading for those so inclined, on both the history and the present situation: the go to person here is the Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor. The end result for me is in the same ball park I think, but for contingent reasons having to do with my own personal history I have gone down another track.
  • Two papers further exploring some possible ingredients for where to go from here. 
    • The first one is on Process Relational Spirituality as a spirituality of creation and life as gift.  This is something I have been into in one way or another since 1978.  In my impression, it sits pretty well in line with Decree 8 of our recent Plenary Council: see especially paragraph 2. 
    • June 2023: the latest edition includes something in the nature of a blog, prepared in preparation for an Open and Relational Theology Conference I was to go to in July 2023, at a resort near Yellowstone National Park in the US.  The wheels fell off the trip itself, but I have added it here by way of an Additional Note, entitled A Love Amply Sufficing, More Than Enough.
    • The second one is on Receiving the Aboriginal Gifts, something I think it is imperative for us Australians in particular to do, no matter who we are, both for general society and for church.  Doing something like this of course was a prime concern of our Plenary Council: see Decree 1.
    • These also, coming out of a conference paper in Sydney in July 2019, have been published in edited versions also in The Swag, in Summer of 2019 and Autumn of 2020.
  • Some material relating to Christian Social, Political and Ecological Ethics in the Catholic tradition.  This is something I have been into since High School, and something which I taught for a while, alongside the philosophy curriculum.  I find this still a good place from which to work with exactly the same critical and constructive concerns.
    •  Firstly and starting with something with gives a bit of an overview, there are some reflections from February through April 2021 entitled On not dividing the Seamless Garment: why we Catholics don't fit in: see Seamless Garment.  There is a well presented version of this in the Winter 2021 edition of the magazine The Swag. 
    • Secondly, there is a more or less up to date PowerPoint Presentation, which all being well you should be able to download.  Download here, hopefully.  November 2020: I have had a first go at taking account of Pope Francis' new (October 3rd 2020) encyclical, Fratelli Tutti.  I highly recommend a slow read, one chapter at a time, and maybe some group discussion. I continue to try to keep it up to date - more to come. 
    • Then there is an old article which I wrote for a gathering in Leuven, Belgium in 1991, published 1993, analysing Catholic Social Theory as something like a Lakatosian Scientific Research Program: see Catholic Social Ethics Article. This with its footnotes gives some of the scholarly basis for the PowerPoint (up until 1991).
    • After that, there is a document originally prepared to help my bishop write a paper on voluntary assisted dying legislation in Queensland.  It is very personal and written from an old Catholic Labor perspective like my bishop (Labor before they became a bourgeois party).  However it also reflects the previous philosophical analysis of where exactly are we, and fits in well with the Seamless Garment theme: please make sure to take it in context with previous files on our social and ecological ethics and spirituality!  Please see Dying Well.  (It is also one expression of my Spirituality of Creation and Life as Gift.)
    •  Finally and most recently (early March 2022), there is a reflection on the war in Ukraine, very personal but trying to work from the midst of our most recent thinking on war and peace, entitled The Anxieties of War.

  • A Review Article with commentary having to do with promoting the true equality of women in the Catholic Church:  Go to Review Article.  This is the original, unedited longer version, rather than the published version (to be found in The Swag, Winter 2020).  I have added to this a further long note in the mode of Let Us Dream, speculating on three possible ways forward whether or not our church gets to ordain women (July 2021), updated into September 2021.
  • Some  older papers, also available in a frames version (go to Frames Version Index now if you want).  The first ones are in the theme of Process Relational Philosophy and Process Theology, including
    • Process Eco-Theology,  also an overheads version of the same, I took a version of this to a conference once in Christchurch, New Zealand; and
    • a paper on "God and Evil in Process-Relational Perspective", put together in the course of work within the Brisbane College of Theology:  Process on God and Evil .
  • A Conference paper on Faith and Reason coming out of a project from the 1990's and early 2000's.  Part II, On Comparing and Judging Traditions of Experience and Interpretation, goes beyond just Faith and Reason to do some work on the foundations for dialogue between religions as well as with non religious traditions.  This bit got to be updated and changed a bit in consequence of a two week intensive on the Enhancing Catholic School Identity Project which I went to in Leuven in 2016.  For this see Update 2016 .  There is also a fairly extended conversation about this in the Philosophy of Religion unit under the topic Religious Experience.
  • Online versions of a few of the many Philosophy units that I used to teach, the following:
  • 1. Philosophy of Religion.  This was something I taught almost every year.  Adding to this from another unit are some notes on Miracles and on Evolution which might be a little bit interesting. Finally in this section, there is a note on The Afterlife stimulated by the Israel Falou saga but with ideas gong back to Leuven days. June 2024: this file has now been updated, with an addition to take account of some objections.  And
  • 2. Process Relational Philosophy and Theology: Lecture Notes and Personal Papers from two units I taught this century, the first at Loyola New Orleans in January to May 2004 (the year before Katrina), the second at the Brisbane College of Theology in 2005. 

In addition to the above:

  • You will find a personal resume by clicking  Resume
  • Mum�s Lebanese Recipes, which you are most welcome to try out, with suitable variations as you want, in normal Lebanese style.


Please Note: all papers that got published are in 'as submitted for publication' mode rather than what actually got published.  For actual published versions, as well as the above referred to, see the following:
Tradition and Renewal: Volume 2, edited David A. Boileau and John A. Dick (Louvain Philosophical Studies, Leuven University Press, 1993), pp. 197-214.

Faith and Reason: Friends or Foes in the New Millenium?, edited by Anthony Fisher, OP, and Hayden Ramsey (ATF Press, Adelaide, 2004), pp. 37-57.
God-Talk: Contemporary Trends and Trials, edited Kurian Kachappilly, cmi (Dharmaram Publications, Bangalore, India, 2006 ), pp. 53-77.


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To understand the site, the fact that it has two versions and its rather primitive formatting, you need a bit of history. 
I have been into computers from early on, but until very recently (I now have a beautiful  Samsung Galaxy s20 mobile phone), for financial reasons a bit behind the technological standard.  I wrote my doctoral thesis (1981-1985) on a Commodore 64 hooked up to a daisy wheel printer with a heap of 5 and a quarter inch floppy disks (the standard at that time was the Olivetti 128, which one of my mates had).
I got my first email address while teaching at Kensington in Sydney in the late 1980's.   If I remember rightly, this was [email protected].  Pegasus Australia was taken over by a company called Microplex.  Microplex was in turn taken over by Optus, which eventually gave me an address with Optus.
Optus at that time like a lot of other providers threw in some free web space.  So in the late 1990's I think 1998, I bought myself a Teach Yourself HTML book and put together my first website, mostly as a teaching aid.  Frames were in vogue at this time, so I tried Frames and also played around with different coloured backgrounds etc. Never very professional, but lots of fun and for its purposes it seemed to work.
This was alright until 2015.  Early in 2015 I decided finally to move from dail-up to mobile broadband.  I did not realize afterwards that this would rob me of the free web space, the web address and the website, no longer included in Optus packages.
By May 2020, going on three years retired, and of course in Coronavirus isolation, I found myself with plenty of time finally to try to do something about getting myself back a website.  I am probably a bit old to pick up new skills, so much has changed since then, or even to get back my old ones in the mode of Do It Yourself. So I decided, provisionally, to renovate the old site, already in both Frames and No Frames, with the help of Sea Monkey, leaving out some things while adding new material, and just a tiny bit behind the scenes.  I apologize in advance.  But if like me you are interested mainly in content, all of that should be there, hopefully in an accessible form, hopefully all in both versions!  I will work on getting upskilled and maybe improve the website at a later date.