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December 2018

December 04, 2018

Reader’s All-Night Vigil: The Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple

Last night, we did a Reader's All-Night Vigil service at our mission in Chicago. That...

December 03, 2018

Angels and archangels, all night, all day: on Holy Michael the Archangel and my guardian angel (St Philip’s Fast #5)

I don't know how it is for Protestants in communities in which I did not...

December 01, 2018

‘Break your détente with death’: on Sinai Pantocrator and the Dormition (St Philip’s Fast #4)

I was having a think recently about whether the icons in my beautiful corner are...

November 2018

November 30, 2018

‘Mary, what are you thinking about?’: on the Oranta of Kyiv and the Theotokos of Belz-Częstochowa (St Philip’s Fast #3)

I grew up evangelical. Things make sense to me in the theological register of evangelicalism,...

November 29, 2018

‘Come, the table is prepared; come, join the feast’: on Rublev’s Trinity as the Hospitality of Abraham (St Philip’s Fast #2)

My friend Abraham used to bake cranberry bread for communion at an evangelical church that...

November 28, 2018

‘…that I may carry out your holy and true command’: on the San Damiano Cross and the theologia crucis (St Philip’s Fast #1)

I was having a conversation recently with a Korean American friend of mine who finds...

November 27, 2018

‘Philip, go south’: revisiting my family history in the Chinese church (for the Feast of the Holy Apostle Philip)

In the autumn of 1999, our family was in a bit of a lurch. My...

November 25, 2018

Social justice symphonia: on Holodomor for the Feast of St Josaphat of Polotsk

By Orthodox standards, the saint of the Kyivan Church, the Holy Hieromartyr Josaphat (Kuntsevych) of...

November 24, 2018

Stock, broth, and the scholarship of everyday life: a theory of soup after Thanksgiving

Two nights ago, I was at my dear friend and mentor Ji-Yeon Yuh's house...

November 23, 2018

‘Glory to God in all things’: forthcoming mystagogical reflections on the postsecular

Last night, on the eve of Thanksgiving, I prayed the Akathist of Thanksgiving, Glory to...

November 20, 2018

On the Mercy Hospital shootings in Chicago

I originally posted this on Facebook when I was able to process the news that...

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...

November 09, 2018

‘God’s approach to you is very strict’: a Chinese Christian child’s testimony of everyday life

My introduction to Asian martial traditions began when I was eight. My dad and I...

November 08, 2018

The spear against the shield: the fear of sex and icons in my Chinese Protestant childhood

The rediscovery of my Chineseness after my conversion to Eastern Catholicism, which seems to be...

November 02, 2018

Honoring my ancestors on this Day of the Dead

They tell me that this generation does not honor their elders and that Christians do...

November 02, 2018

The souls of those who pray for me

Earlier this week, I was in our shared Latina/Latino Studies and Asian American Studies seminar...

November 01, 2018

Jin Yong taught me the ethics of everyday life

It was funny. My biological clock has been a little off because of a recent...

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 27, 2018

‘Walking, stumbling, on these shadowfeet’: re-visiting the ‘postevangelical’ as ‘postsecular’

Two nights ago, I went on a whim to see what Brooke Fraser is doing...

October 23, 2018

The only thing in crisis is the liberal world religions version of Orthodoxy: on Moscow, Constantinople, and Chinatown

In light of the bluster of the Moscow Patriarchate in its claim that its full...

October 14, 2018

Oscar Romero, the scholarship of everyday life, and the omophor of Pokrov for the civilization of love

These are my reflections on the canonization of Archbishop Oscar Romero in our sister Latin...

October 13, 2018

The Non-Alignment of the People of God

Tomorrow, Archbishop Oscar Romero, the martyred Latin hierarch of El Salvador in the 1980s, will...

October 12, 2018

One of my bishops on the question of Ukrainian autocephaly and the Greek Catholic Church

My view of my church, the Greek-Catholic Church of Kyiv, may seem radical to those...

October 11, 2018

Ukrainian autocephaly is vindication for those who read

Today is a great day. As Constantinople announces that it will indeed grant autocephaly to...

October 09, 2018

Theology is the exegesis of love (for the repose of Holy John the Theologian)

I have long reflected on why, mysteriously, the Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian...

October 07, 2018

Stopped in at my spiritual home, reflected on the secular

I stopped home in Richmond for Liturgy. It is Canadian Thanksgiving weekend, and my dear...

September 2018

September 30, 2018

‘That each musical note we emit may blossom into a stream of praise’ (on my Old Calendar baptismal anniversary)

On September 17, 1995, I was baptized by the hand of the Rev. James Ou...

September 29, 2018

Sitting with the negations: for the Feast of the Exaltation and the beginning of the school year

The past Thursday was the Feast of the Universal Exaltation of the Holy and Life-giving...

September 26, 2018

Crossing the rooms of the intellect

Once upon a time, the Jesuit scholar Matteo Ricci impressed the Ming imperial court...

September 25, 2018

Organization is about infrastructure: possibly a review of the secular

It will be hilarious if, by the end of this blogging journey of self-narration, this...

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