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July 2019

July 23, 2019

I’ve found my way home: on the unraveling of the private consensus for me

When I was around seven years old, I said something to a family friend that...

April 2019

April 04, 2019

‘Third World Studies questions the very social formations that enable the study of religion’: with Melissa Borja on the Anxious Bench

Over at The Anxious Bench on one of our sister channels on Patheos, my friend and colleague...

March 2019

March 04, 2019

The place of the problematic: for the Sunday of the Last Judgment

For much of my life, I have felt that I have inhabited two separate worlds...

February 2019

February 18, 2019

‘And we speak only what we know and we do not curse God’: on teaching Sylvia Chan-Malik’s Being Muslim

Over the next three weeks, I am teaching my friend and colleague Sylvia Chan-Malik's book Being...

February 11, 2019

‘Don’t know much about geography’: Sam Cooke in a Seattle postdoc

My wife and I were on the lower story of Seattle's Pike Place Market, the...

January 2019

January 29, 2019

I am giving in to the pleasures of scholarship: on the falseness of neoliberal asceticism

There is a dimension to scholarship that is often left undiscussed in the present milieu...

December 2018

December 05, 2018

Living between theology and religious studies: on the Holy Apostle Thomas and the Holy Apostle Jude (St Philip’s Fast #8)

I received a package of icons that I ordered when I was first setting up...

November 2018

November 24, 2018

Stock, broth, and the scholarship of everyday life: a theory of soup after Thanksgiving

Two nights ago, I was at my dear friend and mentor Ji-Yeon Yuh's house...

October 2018

October 07, 2018

Stopped in at my spiritual home, reflected on the secular

I stopped home in Richmond for Liturgy. It is Canadian Thanksgiving weekend, and my dear...

October 01, 2018

Back to Asian American basics

Today was my first day back on the job teaching. The quarter officially started on...

September 2018

September 25, 2018

Organization is about infrastructure: possibly a review of the secular

It will be hilarious if, by the end of this blogging journey of self-narration, this...

September 18, 2018

The long-form email, redeemed as letter

At least for me, an easy misunderstanding of the literary theorist Michael Warner's first book, The...

September 14, 2018

The moral, the theological, and the political (Series Recap: ‘I give you three years to narrate yourself’)

Sam Rocha gave me three years to narrate myself on this blog, and I made...

September 05, 2018

Blogging as hysteric confession (‘I give you three years to narrate yourself’ #1)

This is the first in a series reflecting on what I've been doing on the...

August 2018

August 14, 2018

Discerning settler colonialism

If there is anything I've learned since becoming Eastern Catholic, it is that the Holy...

August 02, 2018

I study publics

I remember the first time I solicited advice from a colleague - an equal,...

March 2018

March 01, 2018

‘Your private life is not private’: on the private consensus (Great Fast #11)

I was talking to my friend in Vancouver about my last post, which was on...

February 2018

February 26, 2018

Lady Bird and the transfiguration of everyday life (Great Fast #8)

There are necessarily spoilers for what I am about to write. But it is fair...

February 17, 2018

The way of the imbecile

The philosopher Avital Ronell says that we have been having a 'war on stupid.' Stupidity,...

February 16, 2018

On process and preparation

When I wrote my 'conversion to liberation theology' series last December, Sam Rocha wrote to...

February 15, 2018

They call me Prof Yenta

Some former students of mine have joked recently that I am basically 'Prof Yenta.' I...

January 2018

January 08, 2018

Winter Quarter classes at Northwestern

With reference to my previous post on getting back to work at Northwestern after a...

November 2017

November 23, 2017

On Dreher, Peterson, and intellectual life

My family is in Canada, and I've already celebrated Thanksgiving with them in October. Accordingly,...

September 2017

September 28, 2017

More reflections on the Internet, thanks to Zoë Quinn’s new book

I just finished reading Zoë Quinn's very new book Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My...

July 2017

July 07, 2017

To write Cantonese, to write the truth, to write in the Spirit who renews the face of the earth

I am finding these days that whenever I write something, I usually get pulled despite...

June 2017

June 30, 2017

Two pieces on the Trump Era

I've written two pieces on the Trump Era that I've published online outside of this...

April 2017

April 27, 2017

To make philosophia my way of life in the academy

Yesterday night, I went home to discover in my mailbox that Dariusz Karłowicz's new book Socrates...

April 03, 2017

TALK: Liberation theology in the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement? (Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary)

I'll be giving a talk tomorrow at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary titled Liberation theology in the Hong...

March 2017

March 16, 2017

I still believe in the streets of academia

This post was inspired by the convergence of three things that seemed to happen at...

March 11, 2017

The Blog in the Economia of Academic Writing

Yesterday, I had an illuminating conversation with a senior colleague who showed me something about...

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