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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...

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 02, 2017

God and Cigarettes

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

April 2017

April 18, 2017

Podcast: “A Theology of Pop Culture” with PEACEcast

PEACEcast, a podcast spinoff of PEACEtalks (which is in turn a seminar series hosted by St...

February 2017

February 07, 2017

Friendship, Politics & Justice

We are pleased to feature a guest-post this week by Dr. Timothy J. Furry, who...

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...

December 2016

December 16, 2016

Pontifical Sass: More Little Surprises from Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI

This is a follow up from a post last week, showing some of the little...

October 2016

October 18, 2016

Available Now: Campion College on “Stranger Things”

The Divine Wedgie's Matthew Tan got together with Dr. Colin Dray, Lecturer in Literature at Campion...

September 2016

September 27, 2016

Emmanuel Mounier: On Bodies & the Abstracting Power of Machines

In a tutorial in political philosophy class at Campion College Australia last week, students were...

September 20, 2016

Catfishing, the Synthetic Self & Confession

Readers of the Catholic blogosphere would by now be acquainted with Chase Padusniak (of Jappers...

September 05, 2016

New Podcast: The Way of the Cross with Zombie Jesus

Catholic Youth Broken Bay, the part of the Diocese of Broken Bay's Office for Evangelisation,...

August 2016

August 29, 2016

Guestpost by Kamila Soh: When Pokévalues Catch our Attention

This is a guest contribution by Kamila Soh, who holds a Masters in Architecture from...

July 2016

July 18, 2016

Freedom, Autonomy and Vice

A lunchroom discussion on suggestions for suitable relaxing reading to bring along on a Mediterranean...

July 08, 2016

Free Symposium: Economy, Idolatry and Secularisation with William T. Cavanaugh (11th July)

Readers in the Sydney area might be interested to know that the University of Notre...

May 2016

May 23, 2016

Post-Materialism, Sacramentality & Marketing

A friend on social media once wondered out loud why a big telecommunications company would...

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...

April 2016

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...

April 24, 2015

Crunchy-Conservatism, Migrants & Pope Francis

"Crunchy-conservatives" in the United States have started organising against the neoliberal and faux-conservative...

December 2013

December 03, 2013

The Church and Popular Culture: DePaul Winter Course Offering

The Department of Catholic Studies at DePaul University is inviting enrollment into one of its...

July 2013

July 25, 2013

Christians and Crises

Crises are politically useful gimmicks. Whether it is economic meltdowns, asylum seekers, cabinet reshuffles, sex...

June 2013

June 21, 2013

Scribblings in Transition

A series of transcontinental transitions will temporarily affect the frequency of posts in the coming...

June 22, 2012

On Education and Smartphones

Smartphones have irreversibly changed the way of computing. In a space of less than 30...

March 2012

March 23, 2012

Sertillanges on the Intellectual Vocation

The Dominican intellectual Antonin Gilbert Sertillanges wrote in the 1920s a book entitled The Intellectual...

January 2012

January 13, 2012

“How to be Oppressed by a Thermostat” and Other Future Events

Today marks the last day that the city of Las Vegas hosts the 2012 International...

December 2011

December 02, 2011

Celebrity: What Kylie and Universities Have in Common?

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation recently reported on Anglia Ruskin University's decision to grant an honorary...

October 2011

October 08, 2011

Video Games, Reality and the Lifeworld of the Church

An article in the Herald Sun reported on the preliminary findings from research on a...

October 05, 2011

Educational Excellence for Christians: A Podcast

Nathan Kerr, Assistant Professor in Religion at the Trevecca Nazarene University in the United States,...

October 01, 2011

We Know Because We Care: An Epistemology of Love

We have heard it all before, the rendering of 1 Corinthians 13 that is often...

August 2011

August 19, 2011

Religious Education in Secular Society: A View from Dr. Joel Hodge

Dr Joel Hodge, a Systematic Theologian at the Australian Catholic University, recently wrote on the...

July 2011

July 28, 2011

The State of Undergraduate Education: A view from the Front Porch

Wilson Carey McWilliams from the Front Porch Republic has written extensively and very insightfully on...