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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...

May 2019

May 14, 2019

The secular does not stop when your drive dies: mystagogy for Bright and Thomas Weeks

I was in Madison for Great and Holy Week because every year, the Association of...

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 28, 2019

The meat of Pascha: theological commentary on the resurrection

Pascha, I often joke, is the first day after the Great Fast and Great and...

April 26, 2019

I was born in the year of Chornobyl: for Great and Holy Friday

Fr Myron Panchuk used to draw a lot of significance out of the fact that...

April 26, 2019

Betrayal is not redemptive: for Great and Holy Thursday

One of the lines that struck me very deeply when I first heard it in...

April 24, 2019

A child in Kassiani’s garden: for Great and Holy Wednesday

When I was about four, I once said to my elderly babysitter that my mom...

April 23, 2019

The globalization of Notre-Dame de Paris: for Great and Holy Tuesday

Paris, the Marxist geographer David Harvey argues, is the Capital of Modernity. There is a way...

April 22, 2019

Teaching Genesis: for Great and Holy Monday

If there is a text by which my teaching career has been defined, it is...

April 21, 2019

Sundubu jjigae and the All-Night Vigil on Harvard Avenue: for Palm Sunday

Two Palm Sundays ago, I found myself in Boston for the annual geographers' conference. I...

April 20, 2019

The death of a grandfather: on the raising of Lazarus from the dead

I was eleven when my grandpa died. He was not doing well when he did....

April 20, 2019

Christian atheism as orthodox liberation from the tragic farce of privilege: for Lazarus Saturday

The next time some chump in any of the Christian communions says to me that...

April 19, 2019

Doing prophetic theology after empire: on the Isaiah readings at Sixth Hour for the Fast

Here in Chicago, we are on the Old Calendar. Seeing the Good Friday posts from...

April 17, 2019

Fasting is about justice: today’s Sixth Hour reading

As the Great Fast winds down on this Wednesday of its Sixth Week (we are...

April 15, 2019

‘She’s relatable’: on St Mary of Egypt Social Justice Fellowship

A few weeks ago, those of us who compose our mission group in Chicago, St...

March 2019

March 27, 2019

Fiat mihi secundum verbum tuum: on the crisis of my Annunciation spirituality

I write these thoughts on the occasion of the Feast of the Annunciation on the...

March 18, 2019

‘They are us’: on having no words on Christchurch, Ethiopian Airlines, and the ecological crisis

I have been at a loss for words about the deaths of so many in...

March 17, 2019

Please do not ask me about Jung: for the Sundays of Orthodoxy and Gregory Palamas

This post, written on the Sunday of Orthodoxy on the Old Calendar and of Gregory...

March 16, 2019

‘Vocatus atque non vocatus deus aderit’: Fr Myron Panchuk and the Kyivan Psychoanalysis Study Group

Last year at Pascha, I went with my sister and brother Summer and Julian, along...

March 11, 2019

The death of the father: for Forgiveness Sunday

I was just sitting down at an intentional Christian community's arts sharing night when I...

March 06, 2019

The morality of the closet: for Cheesefare Week after the Latins’ Ash Wednesday

For those who are among the cheeky in the Latin Church, Ash Wednesday is what...

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...

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...

March 02, 2019

The truth is, I didn’t know them as well as I should have: for the Saturday of the Dead

I was a freshman in high school when my friend Sean died. He was the...

March 02, 2019

By the waters of Babylon: the Sunday of the Prodigal among the Chinese Christian diaspora

At Matins on the Sunday of the Prodigal, we begin to sing 'By the Waters...

February 2019

February 28, 2019

To sing the world in a career: on Asian American poetry slowly finding me

Recently, I was at a talk given by the poetry professor Timothy Yu, and while...

February 17, 2019

Ego and the complicities of the Jesus Prayer: for the Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee

A wise monastic in our church said to me last year in a context outside...

February 16, 2019

The body exists, and I am one: the mystagogy of the time of Nativity

One of the graces of the Byzantine churches is our habit of echo-feasts. The Feast...

February 15, 2019

Symeon glimpsed the glory of the Lord: for the Feast of the Encounter

The Feast of the Encounter is the opening of a new horizon on the Christian...

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