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December 2018

December 31, 2018

‘Clearly green light, turn eye became red light’: non-uniate loving as a secret ‘honger’ (for the Eve of the Circumcision and the Feast of the Holy Hierarch Basil)

I was having Hong Kong breakfast with my newly chrismated Hongkonger neophyte friends in Richmond over...

September 2018

September 19, 2018

‘Boys will be boys’ and the secularization of the church’s problems: reflections on Anita Hill and Christine Blasey Ford

I was about five years old when I learned the term sexual harassment. It thoroughly confused...

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 13, 2018

Where there are people, there are politics, and I write about church politics (‘I give you three years to narrate yourself #7)

This is the seventh and final post in a series reflecting on what I've been...

February 2018

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...

February 20, 2018

The feeling behind ‘the kids are all Democrats’ (Great Fast #2)

I read yet another hot take on how Trump is destroying Republicanism and how most...

July 2017

July 27, 2017

On the ‘West’: a perverse defence of politics

There has been a considerable amount of popular interest in the concept of the 'West'...

July 03, 2017

Hong Kong, the city that I love, but not where I am from

Though I am not from Hong Kong, it has played a central role in informing...

December 2016

December 16, 2016

By participating in the Umbrella Movement, the Eastern Catholic Church’s gutsyness inspired Vancouver’s younger Chinese evangelicals

In my last post on first encountering a Chinese Canadian Eastern Catholic Jesuit priest at...

August 2016

August 04, 2016

For Archbishop Job of Telmessos, the question of Ukraine comes down to what a ‘canon’ is

I am eventually going to get around to my post on Francis's flawed attempt at...

July 2016

July 22, 2016

I think I’m starting to get what Ivanka means by ‘Make America Great Again’

After listening to Ivanka speak at the Republican National Convention last night, I finally understand...

August 2014

August 05, 2014

Justin’s Big BC Politics Primer, Part 3: Where You Think You’re Going, Baby?

This post is part of a series called Justin's Big BC Politics Primer. The first...

July 2014

July 03, 2014

Yes to Tiananmen invocations, but no, not what you think. #OccupyCentral #CongressOccupied

What I hear most about the recent democratic happenings in Hong Kong and Taiwan is...

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...

June 2014

June 26, 2014

Chinglican Christianity: The Civil Society Question

Let me begin this post by congratulating Alastair Sterne for finding common ground with Douglas...

May 2014

May 13, 2014

Monica Lewinsky made me think of my 1990s childhood

Last Thursday was the feast day of the fourteenth-century visionary and theologian Julian of Norwich....

June 2013

June 18, 2013

What’s So Good About Being Anglican? (Part 3)

If you haven't read part 1 yet, or the 'Is Anglicanism strategic' post, go catch...

April 2013

April 04, 2013

Lord, what can I do for this city?

Qoholet in Ecclesiastes instructs us to let our words be few when making vows to...

March 2013

March 16, 2013

The Clash of Conservatisms

One of the major conversation jammers in our public discourse is that political and theological...

March 02, 2013

Quick Wins

The Liberal Party of British Columbia is reeling over a leak of an internal strategic...

January 2013

January 25, 2013

Theological Education and the Public Pastor

On January 22, 2013, Barack Hussein Obama was inaugurated for a second term as President...

December 2012

December 31, 2012

Dispatches from the War on Christmas 2012

I've heard an awful lot this Advent season and Christmas octave about keeping "Christ" in...

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