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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...

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 01, 2017

Repost: The Politics of All Saints Day

Nota Bene: This is a repost of a piece published 5 years ago today , on...

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...

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...

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...

May 2017

May 02, 2017

God and Cigarettes

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

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 07, 2017

Friendship, Politics & Justice

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

January 2017

January 17, 2017

Prophecy & Architecture

While teaching political philosophy at Campion College Australia, one minor thread of the course related...

November 2016

November 22, 2016

Podcast: On the Catholicism of “Daredevil”

Readers may be aware that, periodically, The Divine Wedgie gets together with lecturers at Campion College Australia...

November 15, 2016

Things Themselves: Phenomenology After Trump

Or WWJD, as in "What Would Jean (Baudrillard) Do?" More on this later, but first,...

October 2016

October 04, 2016

Desire & Idolatry: After Debating

Elections come, elections go, but the media stands firm forever... Whilst another electoral debate has...

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 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 22, 2016

On Being Migrant and Catholic

This post is a part of the Patheos Catholic Channel series, "Catholicity: Identity and Its...

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...

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...

June 2016

June 28, 2016

Temptations of the “Everybody”

Nota Bene: Due to the impending porting of The Divine Wedgie to the Patheos Catholic...

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,...

August 2015

August 07, 2015

The Liturgy of Hiroshima

In Theopolitical Imagination, William Cavanaugh described the nation state as a parody of the Church, with...

June 2015

June 26, 2015

Laudato Si, Gay Marriage and the Whitered State

The release of Pope Francis' new encyclical has elicited a higher than usual volume...

December 2014

December 11, 2014

Theology of the Body & the Torture Report

In an old post, mention was made of the moral exhortations that abound within our...

May 2014

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...

November 2012

November 22, 2012

The Church and the State of Exception

A famous stanza of The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats reads:Things fall apart; the...

November 01, 2012

Refugees and the Politics of All Saints Day

The Sydney Morning Herald yesterday reported on the Australian government's proposal to excise all of...

November 05, 2011

Whose Green? Which Man?

Courses in political ideologies will almost inevitably cover the green movement or ecologism in some...

September 2011

September 22, 2011

On being Progressive or Conservative – and Why it Sucks

GK Chesterton once noted in 1924 on the growing convergence of all political opinion into...