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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...

November 2018

November 20, 2018

Why Accusation Dehumanises, but Not in the Way You Think

The devil is known by many names. The most common one, Satan, is often used,...

March 2018

March 13, 2018

Coming Soon: Porn and “the Killing”

I have been kindly invited by the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on...

February 2018

February 12, 2018

Suggestion for Lent: The Way of the Cross with Zombie Jesus

Lent is a time of penance, a time where self-aggrandisement has no place and where...

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...

October 2017

October 13, 2017

Bodies Between Heaven & Earth

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

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...

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...

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 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...

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 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...

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...

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 20, 2016

Catfishing, the Synthetic Self & Confession

Readers of the Catholic blogosphere would by now be acquainted with Chase Padusniak (of Jappers...

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 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...

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 05, 2016

Selfies, Cake & Death

The Guardian's Rana Dasgupta recently wrote a piece concerning the now common practice of posting...

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,...

September 2013

September 12, 2013

Networked Loneliness: the Paradox of Smartphones and What it Means for the Church

Smartphones are not just about the device and the user, and yet, what happens when...

April 2013

April 19, 2013

Christianity, Eastertide and Liminality

The word "liminal" comes from the Latin word for "threshold". Liminality denotes a time of...

March 2013

March 28, 2013

Good Friday & the Prevailing Order (Repost)

A line in the Evening Liturgy of the Hours for Tuesday of Holy Week reminds...

October 2012

October 25, 2012

Story on a (Cancer) Stick: Commodities & the Crisis of Cultural Narrative

As an attempt to reduce smoking and its associated health costs, the Australian government will...

June 2012

June 22, 2012

On Education and Smartphones

Smartphones have irreversibly changed the way of computing. In a space of less than 30...