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October 2018

October 20, 2018

Romano Guardini & the Heft of Heaven

Social media reminded me that, a year ago today, I wrote a post concerning the...

August 2018

August 24, 2018

Fragments of the Postsecular

In my paper "Christ in Hyperreality", I reiterated the point put forward earlier by William...

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...

February 2018

February 26, 2018

The Unseen and Divine Dimension to Life’s Regrets

We live with regret all the time. It is an amoebic experience that reaches out...

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...

December 2017

December 15, 2017

The Vernacular of Pornography Part II: Our Pornographic Lives

Nota Bene: Before reading on, please click here to read "Part I: the Metaphysics of...

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 20, 2017

The Heft of Heaven

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

September 2017

September 01, 2017

So You Think You Understand Mary?

In the Roman Catholic Church, there are two Marian dogmas, the celebration of which...

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...

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 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...

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 07, 2017

Derrida, Deconstruction & Salvation

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

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...

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 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 21, 2016

Soulless Incisions in the Frantic Pursuit of ‘Now’

The 2011 Spanish thriller The Skin I Live In (La Piel Que Habito), starring Antonio...

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 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,...

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 07, 2016

Prayer After “The World Spins Madly On”

Almighty God, You moved your servant to listen to "The World Spins Madly On" by...

May 16, 2013

Love is God?

Campion College yesterday hosted its monthly Campion Cafe Conversations, which asked the question "Is Romantic...