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December 2018

December 17, 2018

How a Train Ride Taught Me the Presence of God

I catch the train to work everyday, and being in Australia's unofficial bible belt means...

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...

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 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,...

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...

May 11, 2018

Mourning and Weeping in this Vale of Facts

Last Sunday, the Archdiocese of Sydney celebrated the bicentennial of the preservation of the blessed...

May 04, 2018

Power and Forgetting

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

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 29, 2018

Adam & His Passion

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

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 01, 2018

Then When Your Dreams Come True…the Trauma

The old cliche goes that the other most terrible thing in the world is getting...

December 2017

December 22, 2017

Dumping Christ for the ‘Crisis’

Crises are useful gimmicks, whether it is economic meltdowns, climate change, immigration, cabinet reshuffles, sex...

December 15, 2017

The Vernacular of Pornography Part II: Our Pornographic Lives

Nota Bene: Before reading on, please click here to read "Part I: the Metaphysics of...

November 2017

November 24, 2017

The Architecture of the Heart

There was a moment, many years ago, where I made a turn into a Melbourne...

November 17, 2017

This New Mercy

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

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...

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...

October 06, 2017

Nostalgia, Reality & the Voice of God

I had trouble sleeping last week. I would wake up in the middle of the...

September 2017

September 22, 2017

Spontaneous Personal Prayer is Superior, Right?

There is a memorable scene in an episode of the American television series Judging Amy (1999-2005). In...

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...

September 01, 2017

So You Think You Understand Mary?

In the Roman Catholic Church, there are two Marian dogmas, the celebration of which...

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 11, 2017

Fidelity in Difference

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