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September 2018

September 22, 2018

‘I cannot run from his mercy’: reflections on the 2018 summer quarter

I depart from Richmond for Chicago today after a long and productive summer. I leave...

September 18, 2018

The long-form email, redeemed as letter

At least for me, an easy misunderstanding of the literary theorist Michael Warner's first book, The...

September 17, 2018

The competence of the laity: reflections on a summer of unofficial cantoring

Yesterday I served my last Sunday as the unofficial cantor until December at our temple...

September 15, 2018

Shu, awaremeyo: reflections on Paul-san’s reception and the baptism of his son

In this time of the postfeast of the Universal Exaltation of the Holy and Life-Giving...

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...

September 12, 2018

Cantoring, cinematic transference, and chastity (‘I give you three years to narrate yourself’ #6)

This is the sixth in a series reflecting on what I've been doing on the...

September 11, 2018

Writing with psychoanalysis, breaking the mirror (‘I give you three years to narrate yourself’ #5)

This is the fifth in a series reflecting on what I've been doing on the...

September 09, 2018

Chinese Christianity is about heart: reflections on Faith’s chrismation

Today, we received my friend Faith by chrismation into our Eastern Catholic church. She took...

September 09, 2018

To be received as Eastern Catholic in Richmond, to be among the Lord’s inheritance (Sunday Before the Exaltation of the Cross)

On this Sunday Before the Exaltation of the Cross, our temple in Richmond will receive...

September 08, 2018

My wife is not ‘my Virgin Mary’ (Nativity of the Theotokos)

What do I say about Mary Godbearer on this Feast of her Nativity, the first...

September 07, 2018

I am not a jook sing because I have a home and am Catholic (‘I give you three years to narrate yourself’ #3)

This is the third in a series reflecting on what I've been doing on the...

September 06, 2018

My Asian American evangelical oedipal complex (‘I give you three years to narrate yourself’ #2)

This is the second in a series reflecting on what I've been doing on the...

September 05, 2018

Blogging as hysteric confession (‘I give you three years to narrate yourself’ #1)

This is the first in a series reflecting on what I've been doing on the...

September 04, 2018

Another cantoring dream – quilting Greek chant, hipster evangelicalism, and the Anglican realignment

The thing I remember about the beginning of this dream was that it was a...

September 01, 2018

Augustine, #MeToo, and the church

On October 16, 2017, I shared some words on my Facebook regarding the #MeToo 'movement,'...

September 01, 2018

Justin’s Apology

My patron saint is Holy Justin the Philosopher and Martyr. Every morning I ask him...

August 2018

August 20, 2018

It’s only as good as we practice it: clarifying my Greek Catholic thoughts on the sex abuse crisis

An Eastern Catholic writing colleague of mine wrote after my post last week on the...

August 16, 2018

Nothing surprises me anymore – until it does: reflections on the Pennsylvania grand jury report and bishops’ conferences

As I read the grand jury report from Pennsylvania on the sex crimes of priests...

August 15, 2018

The kairos of the Dormition and the death of superstition

The Orthodox theologian John Panteleimon Manoussakis has a fascinating passage in his first book God After...

August 02, 2018

I study publics

I remember the first time I solicited advice from a colleague - an equal,...

July 2018

July 30, 2018

First thoughts on Andy Warhol and Eastern Catholicism, with thanks again to Eugenia

Yesterday, we dropped off our dear sister Eugenia Geisel at the train, fresh from a...

July 27, 2018

On my extended adolescence in differentiating from evangelicalism

My spiritual father read my daddy issues post yesterday and began watching Hillsong videos. He...

July 26, 2018

‘Call no man father’: daddy issues and the church

It is occasionally offensive to me, when I am in a Big Mood state, to...

July 24, 2018

My mother taught me to clean: reflections for another birthday

Yesterday, on the eve of my birthday, I offered some reflections on my mother to...

July 22, 2018

I had another cantoring nightmare last night

The dream started like any other cantoring dream. I was in front, at the temple,...

July 17, 2018

Ideological promiscuity in two material gifts: reflections on the Feast of Holy Volodymyr Equal-to-the-Apostles

On Sunday, we celebrated the Feast of the Holy Grand Prince of Rus' Volodymyr Equal-to-the-Apostles...

July 14, 2018

Transference, mystagogy, and freedom from intellectual second-guessing

Two Fridays ago at the Feast of Ss Peter and Paul on the New Calendar, I...

July 10, 2018

Asian American evangelicals, Eastern Catholics, and the question of uniatism

I don't know what it says about me that the most popular post around here...

July 04, 2018

The anti-orientalism of Asian American evangelicalism is far from complete: Eugene Cho, Eastern Orthodoxy, and ecclesial death

My dear friend, the Claremont ethicist Grace Kao, nominated me last week on facebook to...

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