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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...

August 15, 2016

Assumption: Personalising the Eschaton

The Austrian political philosopher Eric Voegelin, in spite of his championing of a participation in...

August 08, 2016

Time Travel: Closer Than You Think

Time travel evokes thoughts of the Tardis and "Back to the Future", where the outlandish...

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...

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...

June 05, 2016

Homesickness for Alien Places

There are times when, after coming back from a sojourn overseas, we start pining for...

May 2016

May 30, 2016

Simulations & Spouses

The popular philsophical writer Alain de Botton recently published an article in the New York...

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,...

March 2016

March 26, 2016

The Lord’s Descent into Hell

Below is an excerpt from an ancient Holy Saturday Homily entitled "The Lord's Descent into...

March 20, 2016

Dance & Transcendance

There is something uncanny about the subgenre of electronica broadly called "dance music". In sample...

March 07, 2016

A Sin Called Sadness

In the reading of Scripture, we are familiar with the exhortations against committing specific sins....

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 31, 2016

What the Incarnation Does to Consumption

Richard Aleman has taken over the helm of The Distributist Review, arguably one of the...

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...

December 2015

December 14, 2015

Changing Sex & Living Forever

The editor of the Mars Hill Audio Journal, Ken Myers, recently released some bonus...

December 07, 2015

Fundamental Joy

It finally happened. In an interstate flight, the Pixar movie Inside Out was watched and,...

October 2015

October 14, 2015

Being Someplace Else: The Theological Virtues & the Anime of Makoto Shinkai (Podcast Now Available)

In a previous post, mention was made of a presentation at the Caroline Chisholm Library...

September 2015

September 21, 2015

Against Spirituality

Like everyone else, the Christian is subject to the onslaught of bad news flooding...

September 14, 2015

Speaking Dates in Victoria

Blogger at large at the Divine Wedgie, Matthew Tan, will be giving a series of...

August 2015

August 28, 2015

Being Someplace Else

In the anime film Children who Chase Lost Voices, we are introduced to a girl named...

August 02, 2015

On Death and Pies

A homily at Sunday Mass drew attention to the link between sacramentality and food (a...

July 2015

July 17, 2015

The Media as Liturgy

A recent Spirit in the City day conference at the Queensland University of Technology featured the...

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...

June 08, 2015

Metaphysics & Pornography

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

May 2015

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...

April 2015

April 13, 2015

The Feudalisation of Quiet

If there is one thing that the Justine Sacco AIDS tweet fiasco has proven, is...