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December 2018

December 10, 2018

Images & Idolatry: What Christians Can Learn from Cultural Marxism

Introduction Most of the time, when Catholics use the term "Cultural Marxism" they mean to...

May 2018

May 11, 2018

Mourning and Weeping in this Vale of Facts

Last Sunday, the Archdiocese of Sydney celebrated the bicentennial of the preservation of the blessed...

April 2018

April 12, 2018

Love at the End of the World

A couple of years ago, I wrote about a link between the electronic dance music genre and...

October 2017

October 20, 2017

The Heft of Heaven

Almost twenty years ago, Goo Goo Dolls made a name for themselves with a song...

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 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...

April 2017

April 12, 2017

Launch of “Redeeming Flesh”

We are pleased to announce that Redeeming Flesh: The Way of the Cross with Zombie...

March 2017

March 28, 2017

Turning Towards Nil

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

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...

February 2017

February 15, 2017

Emptying Christ in Identity Politics

"Identity" has become a buzzword, peddled and circulated with increasing bombast in all manner of...

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...

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...

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...

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 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 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 18, 2016

Freedom, Autonomy and Vice

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

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 2014

April 03, 2014

Free Panel Presentation: An Augustinian Theology of Migrant Identity

Readers in the Chicago area might be interested in a free event next week,...

September 2012

September 13, 2012

How Earthly was My City? A Tale of Two Augustines

The 11th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on 11th September 2001 and the killing of...

July 2012

July 06, 2012

Why “Religion” is Bad for You

Much has been said about the often bandied phrase "separation of Church and State". This...

May 2012

May 15, 2012

A Theological Response to Ecological Disaster

Matthew Tan has, together with Paul Tyson of the Australian Catholic University, recently published an...

April 2012

April 13, 2012

The Sacred Making the Secular More Secular

Many of the secular liberal set often decry the involvement of religious actors in fear...

April 03, 2012

The Abolition of Man According to Henri de Lubac

In The Drama of Atheist Humanism, the French Jesuit Henri de Lubac remarked that It...

January 2012

January 24, 2012

Secular Cathedrals, Darth Vader and Other Guest Posts

Below are a set of links to a number of guest posts written in the...

November 2011

November 21, 2011

Online Symposium on the Future of Seminaries

The religious blog portal Patheos is running an online symposium entitled "The Future of Seminary...