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December 2018

December 04, 2018

The 3 Stages of Advent Waiting

Sunday marked the first day of Advent, the season of waiting for the coming of...

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...

November 12, 2018

Vice is the Opiate of the Masses

A diagnosis that is common to the thought of Nietzsche and Marx concerns the pacifying...

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...

March 2018

March 29, 2018

Adam & His Passion

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

February 2018

February 26, 2018

The Unseen and Divine Dimension to Life’s Regrets

We live with regret all the time. It is an amoebic experience that reaches out...

November 2017

November 10, 2017

Don’t Be Blind to the Paradoxes of Faith

In living out the Christian life, there will certainly come a time when giving...

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 18, 2017

Singing Psalms With Angels and Demons

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

August 11, 2017

Fidelity in Difference

Conform. That is the catchcry of a lot of Christians of varying stripes nowadays. Fidelity...

June 2017

June 08, 2017

Only One A**hole in the Body of Christ, Please!

From a reader: There seems to be a fine line and a big difference between...

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 15, 2017

Playing for Eternity: The Sacraments of Pop Culture (Vodcast Now Available)

PEACEtalks, an initiative of St. George Anglican Church in Sydney, hosted the Divine Wedgie over the...

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...

February 2017

February 15, 2017

Emptying Christ in Identity Politics

"Identity" has become a buzzword, peddled and circulated with increasing bombast in all manner of...

January 2017

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...

December 01, 2016

The Train as Cloister

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

October 2016

October 11, 2016

How Should Christians Respond to “the Feels”?

The feels... Nowadays, it is used to describe two things at once. At one,...

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...

July 2016

July 26, 2016

Out Now: The Way of the Cross with Zombie Jesus

A previous post mentioned the imminent arrival of Matthew Tan's second book, Redeeming Flesh: the...

May 2016

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...

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...

March 07, 2016

A Sin Called Sadness

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

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...

May 2015

May 05, 2015

Take Me With You: A Theology of Running Away

Readers may remember an old post from 2012 where suggestions were made on the construction...

February 2015

February 01, 2015

Faith in Two Foetuses

There is a rather humorous story in circulation in the blogosphere about a debate...

August 2014

August 29, 2014

The Third Schism

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

August 15, 2014

The Fathers and the Assumption of Mary

Today, the Roman Catholic Church marks the Solemnity of the Assumption of Mary, which...