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February 2019

February 13, 2019

The Green New Deal: statements from Rome and Constantinople, 1989-2018

The outline for the Green New Deal is out. It's only 14 pages, and it...

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 10, 2019

Model minority repentance: for Zacchaeus Sunday

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

February 06, 2019

Oikoumēnē is not ekklesia: my conversion from evangelical ecclesiology

As I've been working through much of my old work on Cantonese Protestants and getting...

February 05, 2019

Lunar New Year after empire: for nostalgic post-Constantinians on the Year of the Pig

About a week ago, someone in my Eastern Catholic readership forwarded an article from LifeSiteNews...

February 02, 2019

Nunc dimittis: on Candlemas for me

When a brother of mine in the Latin Church asked about a week ago if...

February 01, 2019

A face faced by others: for the Venerable Macarius the Great of Egypt

One of the murmurings of discontent that has long followed me from critics of this...

January 2019

January 31, 2019

Orthodoxy is creative: Rowan Williams on Holy Athanasius of Alexandria

On this Feast of the Holy Hierarchs Athanasius and Cyril of Alexandria, I wanted to...

January 30, 2019

The email about the poor among us: for the Venerable and Godbearing Anthony the Great in the Chicago cold

The email came in the middle of Reader's Vigil, right before the Matins Canon. Classes...

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...

January 22, 2019

‘I call you to teach’: my first Theophany

As this postfeast of Theophany this year continues apace, I recall my first Theophany celebration,...

January 20, 2019

The appearance of God in a time of post-truth fantasy: Kyivan reflections for Theophany 2019

The Tomos of autocephaly for the Orthodox Church in Ukraine came out from the Ecumenical...

January 16, 2019

‘I’ll light a candle for you’: for the Venerable Genevieve of Paris

My wife's name day falls on the commemoration of the Venerable Genevieve of Paris. My...

January 15, 2019

Ubi caritas et amor, Deus ibi est: working reflections on the problematic in the postsecular wasteland (for St Sylvester’s Day)

To me, the theology of the Latin Church is encapsulated by the dictum, Ubi caritas et...

January 14, 2019

Reflections on Reader’s Vespers: Circumcision and Basil

Last night, I decided on a whim, though it was late, to have a Reader's...

January 12, 2019

Even if not: the witness of a Nativity spirituality

One of the pleasures of being on two calendars at the same time -- the...

January 05, 2019

I was convinced to give Eastern Catholicism a chance over Korean fried chicken and soju: a story for the eve of Theophany

I often tell the story of how in a course on trans-Pacific Christianities at the...

January 03, 2019

Icons, postsecular practice, and the prepolitical: working reflections

In the divergence of my academic work and my popular reflection, the common integrated theme...

January 01, 2019

I’m just another Chinese Christian: Eastern Catholic reflections for the secular New Year 2019

My sister Joanna, the one actually born of the same mother in the flesh as...

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...

December 31, 2018

Hong Kong borscht with beets restored: a recipe

I was around nine when the first Hong Kong tea café in the Fremont-Union City-Newark...

December 29, 2018

The return of the Mother of Sheshan to my prayer: late reflections for Nativity and the Synaxis of the Theotokos 2018

Atop the Basilica of Our Lady Help of Christians on Sheshan Hill in Shanghai stands...

December 25, 2018

The humor of domestic mercy: for the Feast of the Holy Great-Martyr Eugenia at the end of St Philip’s Fast

The day that most people know as Christmas Eve is for us on the New...

December 22, 2018

Friendship is a material thing: on not finishing my icon corner series

As St Philip's Fast draws to a close, I am beginning to accept that I...

December 07, 2018

The Vatican’s yellow fever: preliminary reflections on Chinese Catholicism

Amidst reports that the Latin faithful in China are being persecuted more than ever since...

December 06, 2018

‘Old Man from the train station, save me!’: on the Holy Wonderworkers Nicholas of Myra and John of Shanghai and San Francisco (St Philip’s Fast #9)

There are basically two reactions that Chinese people have toward the West, which is any...

December 05, 2018

‘Jude’s Chicago’: an Eastern Catholic addendum

After writing my previous post on my unexpected devotion to the Holy Apostle Jude Thaddeus,...

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...

December 04, 2018

‘You will pray even in Spanish and Chinese’: on the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul (St Philip’s Fast #7)

When I announced to my friends that I was getting chrismated in the Kyivan Church...

December 04, 2018

‘Out of the fish’s belly’: on the Holy Prophets Moses, Elias, Jonah, and the Forerunner John (St Philip’s Fast #6)

Back when I was an evangelical, a number of my sisters and brothers would refer...

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