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May 2016

May 15, 2016

Discerning Before Utopia

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

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 17, 2016

Catholic Social Dispatches

With all the intense hypervigilence and dissection of the recent Apostolic Exhortation, Amoris Letitia,...

April 11, 2016

Hangry Eyes: Our Ravenous Seeing

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

April 03, 2016

When What We See Is What We Worship

The old saying goes that the “eyes are the windows to the soul”, and many...

March 2016

March 07, 2016

A Sin Called Sadness

In the reading of Scripture, we are familiar with the exhortations against committing specific sins....

February 2016

February 21, 2016

The Rampage of Sloth

Nowadays, we tend to associate the capital sin of sloth with laziness and listless inactivity....

February 15, 2016

New Essay: Sarah Coakley and the Prayers of the Digital Body of Christ

Janice McCrandal, lecturer in theology at Trinity Theological College in Brisbane, has edited a new...

January 2016

January 16, 2016

Jesus, Jazz and Who We Are

A previous post explored the assertion by Lacanian psychoanalysis that a subject undergoes a kind...

December 2015

December 07, 2015

Fundamental Joy

It finally happened. In an interstate flight, the Pixar movie Inside Out was watched and,...

October 2015

October 14, 2015

Being Someplace Else: The Theological Virtues & the Anime of Makoto Shinkai (Podcast Now Available)

In a previous post, mention was made of a presentation at the Caroline Chisholm Library...

September 2015

September 14, 2015

Speaking Dates in Victoria

Blogger at large at the Divine Wedgie, Matthew Tan, will be giving a series of...

June 2015

June 08, 2015

Metaphysics & Pornography

A previous post mentioned how we now live in a world where possibilities trump realities,...

May 2015

May 21, 2015

Doctrine Divides While Justice Unites?: An Interview with Catholic News Agency

Justice, Unity and the Hidden Christ, written by the Divine Wedgie's blogger at large, was recently...

March 2015

March 03, 2015

Death Drive Jesus

Contrary to popular belief, the materialist notion that all the question of what is needed...

February 2015

February 09, 2015

The Postsecular Zombie

One research thread on an upcoming project on zombies concerns the liminal space that...

January 2015

January 21, 2015

The Eucharist & the Zombie Apocalypse

Many often talk about cities as being soul destroying, whether it is in reference to...

December 2014

December 31, 2014

The Most Read Posts of 2014

As we sit on the threshold of another new year, it is time to...

November 2014

November 21, 2014

Souls in Space

A previous post on the longing for spaces once traversed elicited a higher-than-usual response...

November 06, 2014

Romancing the Stones

Sometimes, living in one city after a long period spent in another, means that the...

October 2014

October 30, 2014

Counterfeit Realities and the Verbal Universe

The author Daniel Schwindt, who edits the website Solidarity Hall, recently released a book entitled...

October 23, 2014

The False Completeness of the Sixth Day

In the book of Genesis, all of the created world "in all their array" is...

October 02, 2014

Australian Launch: Justice, Unity & the Hidden Christ

Readers in the Sydney area might be interested to know that there will be an...

August 2014

August 29, 2014

The Third Schism

Robin Parry, an editor in the theological publishing house, Wipf & Stock, and Andrew G....

July 2014

July 17, 2014

Is Christianity Addicted to Bass?

In Christian chant, particularly Gregorian and Byzantine chant, there exists a practice of underpinning a...

May 2014

May 22, 2014

Feedback on “Justice, Unity & the Hidden Christ”

Justice, Unity & the Hidden Christ appears to be having an impact, with sales recorded...

May 09, 2014

The State as Confessor: a View from George Orwell

In his Torture and Eucharist, William Cavanaugh spoke of the modern nation state as a...

May 01, 2014

Ecumenism, Abortion and Consumerism: Texts Available Online

The good folk at Wipf and Stock have made available a sample chapter of Justice,...

April 2014

April 24, 2014

Syndicate: A New Forum for Theology

A number of folk in the theological publishing world have banded together to...

April 11, 2014

Sin, Multiplicity and Relation

The French Jesuit, Henri de Lubac, provided a fascinating overview of the patristic link between...