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December 2018

December 10, 2018

Images & Idolatry: What Christians Can Learn from Cultural Marxism

Introduction Most of the time, when Catholics use the term "Cultural Marxism" they mean to...

August 2018

August 30, 2018

How the Sin of Sloth Helped Me Decode “Crazy Rich Asians”

I had the chance to see Crazy Rich Asians in the movies. It features a...

August 24, 2018

Fragments of the Postsecular

In my paper "Christ in Hyperreality", I reiterated the point put forward earlier by William...

April 2018

April 20, 2018

Awaiting God’s Fingerprints

Dr Anne Carpenter, an assistant professor of Theology at St. Mary's College and a fellow...

April 12, 2018

Love at the End of the World

A couple of years ago, I wrote about a link between the electronic dance music genre and...

February 2018

February 12, 2018

Suggestion for Lent: The Way of the Cross with Zombie Jesus

Lent is a time of penance, a time where self-aggrandisement has no place and where...

December 2017

December 08, 2017

The Vernacular of Pornography Part I: The Metaphysics of Porn

Pornography is everywhere. By this, I do not simply mean that we are awash with...

October 2017

October 26, 2017

From the Vault: Divine Wedgie Podcasts on Soundcloud

It has been busy at the office, and so I have been unable to to...

October 20, 2017

The Heft of Heaven

Almost twenty years ago, Goo Goo Dolls made a name for themselves with a song...

September 2017

September 15, 2017

From the Vault: the Divine Wedgie Podcast Series

If you have been following the evolution of the Divine Wedgie over time, first up, a...

May 2017

May 09, 2017

Reminder of Launch of “Redeeming Flesh: The Way of the Cross with Zombie Jesus”

Readers in Sydney would probably have received notice of the launch for my little book Redeeming...

April 2017

April 18, 2017

Podcast: “A Theology of Pop Culture” with PEACEcast

PEACEcast, a podcast spinoff of PEACEtalks (which is in turn a seminar series hosted by St...

March 2017

March 28, 2017

Turning Towards Nil

A former colleague, a Latinist, one day pointed out the neoplatonic influences behind the creation...

March 07, 2017

Derrida, Deconstruction & Salvation

‘Postmodern’ is a dirty word for Christians. In many parts of Christendom, it is associated...

March 01, 2017

Penances You Can Hear: Christianity, Pop Culture & Multiculturalism

Lent is upon us and Melbourne and Sydney readers have the opportunity to do their...

January 2017

January 31, 2017

Playing Heaven and the Real Liturgical Deal

The first world drips with entertainment. Televisions beam sporting events, the latest series or reruns...

January 17, 2017

Prophecy & Architecture

While teaching political philosophy at Campion College Australia, one minor thread of the course related...

January 10, 2017

The Borderlands of Art & Worship

There is a third book in the works somewhere which will, when it finally comes...

December 2016

December 21, 2016

Soulless Incisions in the Frantic Pursuit of ‘Now’

The 2011 Spanish thriller The Skin I Live In (La Piel Que Habito), starring Antonio...

November 2016

November 22, 2016

Podcast: On the Catholicism of “Daredevil”

Readers may be aware that, periodically, The Divine Wedgie gets together with lecturers at Campion College Australia...

October 2016

October 18, 2016

Available Now: Campion College on “Stranger Things”

The Divine Wedgie's Matthew Tan got together with Dr. Colin Dray, Lecturer in Literature at Campion...

October 04, 2016

Desire & Idolatry: After Debating

Elections come, elections go, but the media stands firm forever... Whilst another electoral debate has...

August 2016

August 29, 2016

Guestpost by Kamila Soh: When Pokévalues Catch our Attention

This is a guest contribution by Kamila Soh, who holds a Masters in Architecture from...

August 22, 2016

On Being Migrant and Catholic

This post is a part of the Patheos Catholic Channel series, "Catholicity: Identity and Its...

August 15, 2016

Assumption: Personalising the Eschaton

The Austrian political philosopher Eric Voegelin, in spite of his championing of a participation in...

July 2016

July 05, 2016

Selfies, Cake & Death

The Guardian's Rana Dasgupta recently wrote a piece concerning the now common practice of posting...

May 2016

May 23, 2016

Post-Materialism, Sacramentality & Marketing

A friend on social media once wondered out loud why a big telecommunications company would...

April 2016

April 25, 2016

Meaty Souls & the Death of Prince

People die everyday, sometimes in great numbers at a single time, from wars, genocides,...

March 2016

March 26, 2016

The Lord’s Descent into Hell

Below is an excerpt from an ancient Holy Saturday Homily entitled "The Lord's Descent into...

March 20, 2016

Dance & Transcendance

There is something uncanny about the subgenre of electronica broadly called "dance music". In sample...