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November 2018

November 20, 2018

Why Accusation Dehumanises, but Not in the Way You Think

The devil is known by many names. The most common one, Satan, is often used,...

July 2018

July 12, 2018

So a Catholic walks into a Pentecostal Lecture Theatre…

One of the joys of being a theologian is getting to know gifted theologians from...

May 2018

May 04, 2018

Power and Forgetting

At the end of the anime series Berserk 2017, viewers would finally have an explanation of the...

November 2017

November 17, 2017

This New Mercy

We talk a lot about how bad sin is, and it is bad. As Augustine...

November 01, 2017

Repost: The Politics of All Saints Day

Nota Bene: This is a repost of a piece published 5 years ago today , on...

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...

September 2017

September 29, 2017

Scattered & Gathered: Catholics in Diaspora

The good folk at Wipf & Stock have just published the third volume in their "Studies...

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...

September 08, 2017

After Resurrection, the Holes…

I remember a line used by my catechism teachers when I was a kid that...

August 2017

August 25, 2017

Towards a Kenotic Identity Politics: Migration, Transformation & the Eucharist

I recently had the pleasure of being part of a symposium on Religion and the Humanitarian...

August 01, 2017

Today, When Eternity Began…

At a recent retreat, someone said that eternity begins at your baptism. He also said...

June 2017

June 19, 2017

Mariology at the Beginning of the Third Millenium

A few years ago, I posted on the possibility of giving an epistemological twist on...

March 2017

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 17, 2017

Prophecy & Architecture

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

December 2016

December 01, 2016

The Train as Cloister

From a commuter...which could be the editor...or could not be... Trains are weird things... I...

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...

November 07, 2016

The Vicious Ascetic

In the Christian tradition asceticism, or the deliberate denial of certain pleasures and appetites, is...

October 2016

October 04, 2016

Desire & Idolatry: After Debating

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

September 2016

September 20, 2016

Catfishing, the Synthetic Self & Confession

Readers of the Catholic blogosphere would by now be acquainted with Chase Padusniak (of Jappers...

August 2016

August 22, 2016

On Being Migrant and Catholic

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

July 2016

July 08, 2016

Free Symposium: Economy, Idolatry and Secularisation with William T. Cavanaugh (11th July)

Readers in the Sydney area might be interested to know that the University of Notre...

June 2016

June 05, 2016

Homesickness for Alien Places

There are times when, after coming back from a sojourn overseas, we start pining for...

May 2016

May 15, 2016

Discerning Before Utopia

This post was spurred on by two things, a class given on discernment at Campion...

May 07, 2016

Prayer After “The World Spins Madly On”

Almighty God, You moved your servant to listen to "The World Spins Madly On" by...

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,...

April 11, 2016

Hangry Eyes: Our Ravenous Seeing

Eric Carmans Hungry Eyes is an awfully corny song which, combined to the dance moves and...

January 2016

January 24, 2016

When a Dead Body Attends Mass

One morning, probably due to a combination of liturgical illiteracy and bad timing, a coffin...

August 2015

August 02, 2015

On Death and Pies

A homily at Sunday Mass drew attention to the link between sacramentality and food (a...

June 2015

June 26, 2015

Laudato Si, Gay Marriage and the Whitered State

The release of Pope Francis' new encyclical has elicited a higher than usual volume...

February 2015

February 16, 2015

Nostalgia & Domination

Events, ages, places or people disappear from our lives all the time. More often...