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July 2017

July 08, 2017

LAST WEEK’S SERIES: being Cantonese in the church’s service of liberation to the world

On Monday, I wrote a post on Hong Kong, and I was frustrated. Perhaps the uneasiness...

July 06, 2017

To be Cantonese in a colonized church

A few weeks ago, I was having pizza and beer with a group of people...

July 05, 2017

On my bad jook sing translation of the ‘air of righteousness’ (Cantonese, yi-hei 義氣)

In my last post, I sort of let the cat out of the bag on...

July 04, 2017

When I say that I am Cantonese, this is where I am and am not from

I remember the first time I crossed the Tsing Ma Bridge from Lantau Island. I had...

March 2017

March 08, 2017

I went to a student recital, and the intensity of the music-making destroyed any notion that classical music is about the model minority

It is to the credit of two Northwestern freshmen's social media skills that I ended...

September 2016

September 20, 2016

Rublev’s Trinity helps me remember what I’m building with hospitality (Icons in my Asian American studies office – #2)

I'm blogging through my office decor this week, even though Byzantine icons are so much...

September 19, 2016

Icons in my Asian American studies office

I haven't blogged for a little bit because I've been getting ready for the beginning...

August 2016

August 06, 2016

On discovering that the use of the atomic bomb was a moral problem

NOTE: This is a story of trauma. There are therefore traumatic details that I will...

August 01, 2016

World Youth Day and the France Attacks, or why it’s important that Francis got the ‘piecemeal third world war’ from Korea

World Youth Day is now over, which means that I can now write about it....

July 2016

July 31, 2016

Found on Feast of St Ignatius: ‘The perfect combination of sacrifice and just sheer joy and bliss’

Here's a person that I know at World Youth Day. I was watching a video...

February 2015

February 10, 2015

Vancouver food recommendations for Josh Harris

I am late. Very late. On the day that Josh Harris announced to Covenant Life...

February 09, 2015

Nobody expects Reinhold Niebuhr

It seems that there has been a bit of a Reinhold Niebuhr renaissance. It began...

September 2014

September 28, 2014

Cascadian Privates and Occupy Central

I've just gotten done with a conference called Christ and Cascadia. Just this morning, Pacific...

August 2014

August 28, 2014

Sam Rocha: Love always comes too late.

Let me tell you about my friend Sam Rocha. He has a stellar soul/jazz album...

August 21, 2014

The black church taught our family the meaning of han. #Ferguson

This is a post about the private consensus. I'm finally going to say something about...

August 15, 2014

Assuming Catholic Geopolitics

Occasionally here on Religion Ethnicity Wired, I've plugged how Asian American and Asia-Pacific Catholicisms rock...

August 08, 2014

Because Seattle is not as ‘secular’ as Mark Driscoll thinks, help is available. #TPCIU

In 2006, Mark Driscoll became the subject of both national and local Seattle controversy. Responding...

July 2014

July 16, 2014

Should Asian Americans/Canadians care about Hong Kong? Part 3: What’s Political Agency For?

You can follow earlier installations of this series in the following posts: Part 1: The...

July 15, 2014

Should Asian Americans/Canadians care about Hong Kong? Part 2: The Asian American/Canadian answer.

This series began yesterday with this more personal post here. I also have previous posts...

July 14, 2014

Should Asian Americans/Canadians care about Hong Kong? Part 1: The Preschool Answer

Previously, I've posted on Taiwan's student movement, Hong Kong's Occupy Central movement, and the Tiananmen...

July 02, 2014

‘We Are Pissed Off Too!’ #HongKong #OccupyCentral #TPCIU

On March 3, 2012, I marched from Hong Kong's Victoria Park with a bunch of...

April 2014

April 24, 2014

Forget Tim Challies

There are two versions of Cee Lo Green's instant classic, that is, his imprecatory...

December 2013

December 12, 2013

Contesting the Americas with Our Lady of Guadalupe

Despite my efforts to get back to the evangelical material with #TPCIU (though it is...

December 08, 2013

Why My Catholic Colleagues Should Care About Chinatown

It occurred to me when I mentioned Artur Rosman and Cosmos the in Lost in...

November 2013

November 20, 2013

TPCIU, Part 2: Guess what? Evangelical social media spats actually matter.

My apologies for the tardiness of this next post. When I started writing about this...

October 2013

October 26, 2013

The Private Consensus Is Unraveling, Part 1: an Asian American open letter and American religion

There are moments in the career of a young academic when choices have to be...

September 2013

September 30, 2013

Orientalization is an objective offence: answering our objectors

Last week, one of the big stories in evangelical news concerned a fairly heated conversation...

September 24, 2013

It would not be funny if I said that Rick Warren was the ‘Rick’ in ‘Rickshaw Rally’

UPDATE: The contents of the following post concerned a post by Pastor Rick Warren that...

August 2013

August 02, 2013

The Fire Next Time

When I was sixteen, I read a book titled The Fire Next Time. I figured...

July 2013

July 22, 2013

Not a Dinner Party Is a Chinglican

Some time ago, I raised the issue on this Thing that we need a feminist...

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