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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...

November 2018

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...

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...

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 25, 2018

Christ the Eternal Beginning

At the end of the movie Knight of Cups, the final moment is marked by Rick,...

May 04, 2018

Power and Forgetting

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

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...

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...

January 2018

January 22, 2018

New Podcast: Suffering & Evil in “Stranger Things”

Happy New Year, everyone! I have only just returned from holidays and received notification from...

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...

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 18, 2017

Singing Psalms With Angels and Demons

There comes a point for those who do the Office of Readings where one has...

June 2017

June 19, 2017

Mariology at the Beginning of the Third Millenium

A few years ago, I posted on the possibility of giving an epistemological twist on...

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 04, 2017

The Laughing God

A problem many Christians face is being too serious. One can almost measure the level...

March 2017

March 28, 2017

Turning Towards Nil

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

March 07, 2017

Derrida, Deconstruction & Salvation

‘Postmodern’ is a dirty word for Christians. In many parts of Christendom, it is associated...

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 24, 2017

Let My Porkchop Go: Against the Recruitment of Everything

...from a hungry massgoer... One Sunday after Mass, I went to the pub to get...

January 17, 2017

Prophecy & Architecture

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

January 10, 2017

The Borderlands of Art & Worship

There is a third book in the works somewhere which will, when it finally comes...

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...

December 01, 2016

The Train as Cloister

From a commuter...which could be the editor...or could not be... Trains are weird things... I...

November 2016

November 15, 2016

Things Themselves: Phenomenology After Trump

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

November 07, 2016

The Vicious Ascetic

In the Christian tradition asceticism, or the deliberate denial of certain pleasures and appetites, is...

November 01, 2016

Money as Sacrifice

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

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...