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Christ the King of My Disappointment
Over the weekend, we celebrated the Solemnity of Christ, King of the Universe, more commonly...
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July 03, 2018
Pornography: More Real than Reality Itself
One cold night, a Seattle teenager named Rosie Larsen is found murdered, her body stuffed...
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December 22, 2017
Dumping Christ for the ‘Crisis’
Crises are useful gimmicks, whether it is economic meltdowns, climate change, immigration, cabinet reshuffles, sex...
December 08, 2017
The Vernacular of Pornography Part I: The Metaphysics of Porn
Pornography is everywhere. By this, I do not simply mean that we are awash with...
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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...
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October 13, 2017
Bodies Between Heaven & Earth
I have just started trawling through some old essays for tips for a potential project...
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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...
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June 29, 2017
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The John Paul II Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame Australia, Tracey...
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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...
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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...
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November 01, 2016
Money as Sacrifice
The convention in this world is to see money as "the bottom line", a tangible...
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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,...
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August 01, 2016
A Narrated Corpse
In Who's Afraid of Postmodernism, James K.A. Smith alerted us to the work of the Canadian...
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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...
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May 15, 2016
Discerning Before Utopia
This post was spurred on by two things, a class given on discernment at Campion...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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June 08, 2015
Metaphysics & Pornography
A previous post mentioned how we now live in a world where possibilities trump realities,...
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May 29, 2015
When the Possible is Life and the Actual is Death
In The Coming of the Body, Herve Juvin spoke of the production of the endless...
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...
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August 09, 2014
Prayer as Political Theory
The political science journal "Politics, Religion & Ideology" has kindly provided an advanced online copy...
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May 01, 2014
Ecumenism, Abortion and Consumerism: Texts Available Online
The good folk at Wipf and Stock have made available a sample chapter of Justice,...
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February 28, 2014
Book Launch: Justice, Unity & the Hidden Christ
Readers in Chicago might be interested to know that Justice, Unity and the Hidden Christ:...
January 2014
January 17, 2014
Justice, Unity & the Hidden Christ: New Book by Matthew Tan
The theological publishing house Wipf & Stock has released the first book by the Divine...
January 09, 2014
Where the Centre Holds
A line in William Butler Yeats' The Second Coming bewailed the breakdown of civilisation the...
October 2013
October 11, 2013
Tracey Rowland on Beauty and Salvation
The Perth-based Dawson Society hosted the John Paul II Institute's Prof. Tracey Rowland, who gave...
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