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July 2019

July 22, 2019

The Bay Area of the nineties is where I’m from: reflections on Always Be My Maybe

My wife and I finally watched the new Netflix rom com Always Be My Maybe. Her reaction...

June 2019

June 03, 2019

I am no longer ashamed of being from Fremont: on growing up with ‘Asian Americana’

I think it was midway into my senior year in high school that my family...

May 2019

May 24, 2019

Home is where your food is: a speech for JubilAsian 2019 (APIDA Heritage Month)

Every year, in the month of May, the Multicultural Student Affairs' office at Northwestern puts...

May 11, 2019

Patriyarkhat: ‘Attending to the movements of my heart’

It's out in English! Greek Catholic theological reflections as Asian American theology! The magazine Часопис Патріярхат,...

May 10, 2019

I’m flattered to be named an Asian American theologian

A student messaged me about a month ago to tell me that she had read...

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 05, 2019

The Woman Sophia: notes on Kyivan womanism

In this post, I want to gather up some of the fragments of my recent...

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 12, 2019

The passion of finding just one theologian to satiate theological desire: for the Three Holy Hierarchs

The evangelical preacher John Piper often relates the advice that he received when he attended...

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...

February 10, 2019

Model minority repentance: for Zacchaeus Sunday

The first thing I learned about Zacchaeus when I was in Sunday school was that...

November 2018

November 30, 2018

I had an Asian American evangelical uniate dream last night

Last night, I had the Asian American evangelical uniate dream to own them all. I...

November 11, 2018

‘Still love you’: revisiting the Cantonese Protestant dissertation in everyday life

Perhaps the scariest thing for a young scholar is to revisit the dissertation. It is...

October 2018

October 28, 2018

Flower Drum Song is probably the most uniate film I’ve ever seen

Tonight, in a fit of course preparation for my Chinese American studies course, I finally...

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 06, 2018

My Asian American evangelical oedipal complex (‘I give you three years to narrate yourself’ #2)

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

August 2018

August 25, 2018

My take on Christianity in Crazy Rich Asians

I know these people.

August 25, 2018

My Asian American prof take on the Crazy Rich Asians books

Sorry, be back in two or three days, I'm hooked.

August 25, 2018

My hot take on Crazy Rich Asians.

I liked it.

July 2018

July 10, 2018

Asian American evangelicals, Eastern Catholics, and the question of uniatism

I don't know what it says about me that the most popular post around here...

February 2018

February 28, 2018

Fremont, the site of my first major intellectual mistake (Great Fast #10)

Last weekend in the Bay Area, I was talking to one of my earliest students...

February 24, 2018

The supernatural in the Sunset (Great Fast #6)

My dad booked me on a flight to San Francisco so that I could see...

January 2018

January 09, 2018

Jook Sing Cafe – a song by Julian Saporiti and the No-No Boy Project

A few months ago, I got a message from someone who has been reading my...

January 08, 2018

Winter Quarter classes at Northwestern

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

January 07, 2018

From Richmond to Evanston, Christ is among us – for Christ is baptized!

Today, I went straight from liturgy to the airport. I live between two suburbs, Richmond...

December 2017

December 22, 2017

The ‘suffering’ of the model minority (My conversion to liberation theology #10)

This is the tenth in a series of posts testifying about my conversion to liberation theology....

December 20, 2017

Theological agency in Asian American studies (My conversion to liberation theology #8)

This is the eighth in a series of posts testifying about my conversion to liberation theology. For previous...

August 2017

August 28, 2017

Race and the passions: musings on the Feast of St Moses the Black, St Augustine of Hippo, and Blessed Gebremichael

Today on the Newer Calendar of the Kyivan Church, we commemorate three African saints: our...

July 2017

July 10, 2017

‘Dead white guys,’ Asian style

Among Sam Rocha's essays in Tell Them Something Beautiful, one of the ones that most resonates with...

July 09, 2017

Sam Rocha told me something beautiful

Sam Rocha told me recently that I am not a geographer. You are a geometer, he...

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