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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...

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,...

November 02, 2018

Biotechnocracy: Love, Faith and Reason in the Age of the Sexbot

More than 20 years ago, the Icelandic singer Björk released the single "All is Full...

September 2018

September 13, 2018

My Soul in a Fitbit: Spirit, Flesh & the Quantified Self

About a decade ago, Herve Juvin published The Coming of the Body, a magnificently frightening analysis...

August 2018

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 24, 2018

Christ in Hyperreality: Cultural Marxism, Kulturkritik & Fake News (Podcast Now Out)

A couple of weeks ago, the Perth-based Dawson Society for Philosophy and Culture held their...

May 2018

May 18, 2018

Christians, Let Us Type One Another

I have just finished the Netflix anime series Violet Evergarden, which looks at the life of...

April 2018

April 27, 2018

Surprise: an Anthropology

As a creature of habit, I do not like surprises. I like the routine and...

March 2018

March 23, 2018

The Saving Gathering

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

March 13, 2018

Coming Soon: Porn and “the Killing”

I have been kindly invited by the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on...

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...

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...

November 2017

November 17, 2017

This New Mercy

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

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 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 11, 2017

Fidelity in Difference

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

July 2017

July 13, 2017

Out of Body, Out of Mind

In 1975, long before the age of social media, an experiment was conducted at...

June 2017

June 29, 2017

Tracey Rowland on Zombie Jesus

The John Paul II Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame Australia, Tracey...

June 01, 2017

Insurance, Holiness and Hair

The centrefold of a 2011 edition of Sydney’s short-lived tabloid, mX, featured a report...

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...

May 02, 2017

God and Cigarettes

Five years ago, in an attempt to reduce smoking and its associated health costs, the...

April 2017

April 12, 2017

Launch of “Redeeming Flesh”

We are pleased to announce that Redeeming Flesh: The Way of the Cross with Zombie...

March 2017

March 28, 2017

Turning Towards Nil

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

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 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...

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...