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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...

July 2018

July 03, 2018

Pornography: More Real than Reality Itself

One cold night, a Seattle teenager named Rosie Larsen is found murdered, her body stuffed...

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 08, 2017

The Vernacular of Pornography Part I: The Metaphysics of Porn

Pornography is everywhere. By this, I do not simply mean that we are awash with...

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...

October 2017

October 13, 2017

Bodies Between Heaven & Earth

I have just started trawling through some old essays for tips for a potential project...

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...

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...

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...

March 2017

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...

November 2016

November 01, 2016

Money as Sacrifice

The convention in this world is to see money as "the bottom line", a tangible...

September 2016

September 11, 2016

The Tenacity of Tradition

The so called Age of Enlightenment, especially after Kant and Hegel, had a standard catch...

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 01, 2016

A Narrated Corpse

In Who's Afraid of Postmodernism, James K.A. Smith alerted us to the work of the Canadian...

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 15, 2016

Discerning Before Utopia

This post was spurred on by two things, a class given on discernment at Campion...

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,...

April 17, 2016

Catholic Social Dispatches

With all the intense hypervigilence and dissection of the recent Apostolic Exhortation, Amoris Letitia,...

February 2016

February 15, 2016

New Essay: Sarah Coakley and the Prayers of the Digital Body of Christ

Janice McCrandal, lecturer in theology at Trinity Theological College in Brisbane, has edited a new...

February 07, 2016

Free Theology PDFs from Syndicate Theology

The new theological project Syndicate Theology are slowly but surely attracting a growing list of avid...

January 2016

January 06, 2016

Syndicate Theology Symposium: Beyond Secular Order by John Milbank

While Christmas and New Year celebrations went on over the last two weeks, the folk...

June 2015

June 08, 2015

Metaphysics & Pornography

A previous post mentioned how we now live in a world where possibilities trump realities,...

May 2015

May 29, 2015

When the Possible is Life and the Actual is Death

In The Coming of the Body, Herve Juvin spoke of the production of the endless...

May 21, 2015

Doctrine Divides While Justice Unites?: An Interview with Catholic News Agency

Justice, Unity and the Hidden Christ, written by the Divine Wedgie's blogger at large, was recently...

August 2014

August 09, 2014

Prayer as Political Theory

The political science journal "Politics, Religion & Ideology" has kindly provided an advanced online copy...

May 2014

May 01, 2014

Ecumenism, Abortion and Consumerism: Texts Available Online

The good folk at Wipf and Stock have made available a sample chapter of Justice,...

February 2014

February 28, 2014

Book Launch: Justice, Unity & the Hidden Christ

Readers in Chicago might be interested to know that Justice, Unity and the Hidden Christ:...

January 2014

January 17, 2014

Justice, Unity & the Hidden Christ: New Book by Matthew Tan

The theological publishing house Wipf & Stock has released the first book by the Divine...

January 09, 2014

Where the Centre Holds

A line in William Butler Yeats' The Second Coming bewailed the breakdown of civilisation the...

October 2013

October 11, 2013

Tracey Rowland on Beauty and Salvation

The Perth-based Dawson Society hosted the John Paul II Institute's Prof. Tracey Rowland, who gave...