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November 2018

November 27, 2018

Christ the King of My Disappointment

Over the weekend, we celebrated the Solemnity of Christ, King of the Universe, more commonly...

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...

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...

June 2018

June 25, 2018

What a Magpie Taught Me About the Spiritual Life

This week, I was reminded on social media about already dated, but still very endearing,...

April 2018

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...

March 2018

March 29, 2018

Adam & His Passion

We are now entering the Triduum, to celebrate the passion of Jesus Christ. ...celebrate… How...

March 23, 2018

The Saving Gathering

A colleague's wife noticed that I had on my shelf A Distant Prospect, a novel set...

March 06, 2018

Blessed are the Meek: A Video for Common Grace

Readers might remember that, last year, I was invited to make a lenten video contribution...

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...

January 2018

January 22, 2018

New Podcast: Suffering & Evil in “Stranger Things”

Happy New Year, everyone! I have only just returned from holidays and received notification from...

December 2017

December 01, 2017

…The Meek…

Common Grace, an organisation that describes itself as a "movement of Christians passionate about Jesus...

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...

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...

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 18, 2017

Singing Psalms With Angels and Demons

There comes a point for those who do the Office of Readings where one has...

August 01, 2017

Today, When Eternity Began…

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

July 2017

July 25, 2017

God and the Pink Elephant

At a seminar on zombies (yes, I am still on the promotional path for the Redeeming...

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...

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...

March 2017

March 07, 2017

Derrida, Deconstruction & Salvation

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

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 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...

November 15, 2016

Things Themselves: Phenomenology After Trump

Or WWJD, as in "What Would Jean (Baudrillard) Do?" More on this later, but first,...

November 01, 2016

Money as Sacrifice

The convention in this world is to see money as "the bottom line", a tangible...

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...