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July 2018

July 03, 2018

A strange Eastern Catholic cantoring dream

Last night I had the strangest of dreams. The scene begins with our temple...

June 2018

June 29, 2018

Intellectual renewal among the people of God: reflections for Ss Peter and Paul on the second anniversary of my reception into the Kyivan Church

I will always remember the moment I was received into the Kyivan Church. After I...

June 27, 2018

Anti-authoritarian martyrs and passion-bearers: thoughts at the end of the Apostles’ Fast 2018

In my icon corner in Chicago hangs three 'group icons' of holy martyrs: the Holy...

June 04, 2018

The Wound of History

In my first childhood memory, I am standing by the fireplace. It's made of brick,...

May 2018

May 29, 2018

Repenting of the postmodern politics of the pure heart

Sister Vassa (Larin) has begun a podcast series on Psalm 50. When I was a...

May 28, 2018

The All-Purpose Tone: for Monday of the Holy Spirit

On Pentecost, we in the Byzantine churches have Kneeling Vespers. To the extent that we...

May 20, 2018

Mission Day #3: God is with us – we belong to God

Lord, I am here. Lord, I am yours. 'A human being today feels the need...

May 19, 2018

Mission Day #2: Liberation from Sin

Come, O faithful, let us climb the Mount of Olives with the apostles, let us...

May 18, 2018

If I were in the Latin Church, I’d be pretentious af (Album Challenge #6)

I am not in the Latin Church because I would be pretentious af. I cannot...

May 18, 2018

Mission Day #1: A Divine Love That Brings Joy

When You had fulfilled Your plan for us and united things on earth with those...

May 17, 2018

The Mission Days of the Kyivan Church

Patriarch Sviatoslav has issued an invitation. The Greek-Catholic Church of Kyiv, also known as the...

May 17, 2018

Ascension and the perfection of ‘all light, all face, all eye’

I was out with a friend who worships and works in the Latin Church last...

May 16, 2018

‘…it was more than likely that you were a Gould fan as well’ (Album Challenge #4)

The music critic Tim Page describes the Canadian pianist extraordinaire Glenn Gould in a 2003 essay...

May 16, 2018

I didn’t want to listen to music about sex (Album Challenge #3)

When I was taking trumpet lessons as a teen, my teacher made suggestions every so...

May 15, 2018

Fire and wind (Album Challenge #2)

My first encounter with the violin was the day that I also learned about Kumon....

May 13, 2018

‘The Lord is calling me to the trumpet’ (Album Challenge #1)

When I was nine, the music teacher at our Christian school told us that we...

May 03, 2018

‘I write to save my soul’: thoughts on writing for mid-Pascha

It is mid-Pascha, and I have not blogged for a while. But on Monday, I...

March 2018

March 31, 2018

PASCHA [New Calendar]: Richmond Eastern Catholic Church, 31 March, 10:30 pm

Arise, O G-d, and judge the earth, for to you belong all the nations! In...

March 11, 2018

RICHMOND: Great Canon of St Andrew of Crete, Wed, 14 Mar, 7 pm

For those in Richmond/Vancouver: Our temple will be having the Great Canon of St Andrew...

March 02, 2018

Rebuild my church (Great Fast #12)

Whenever I play hooky from my home Kyivan Church and hang out with the Latins...

February 2018

February 28, 2018

Fremont, the site of my first major intellectual mistake (Great Fast #10)

Last weekend in the Bay Area, I was talking to one of my earliest students...

February 25, 2018

The triumph of the icons against the theological paranoia of men of integrity (for the Sunday of Orthodoxy – Great Fast #7)

The icon that hangs at the doorway of my home is the Theotokos of Iveron....

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 23, 2018

Billy, Bob, Dick, Mark, Tom, and me (Great Fast #5)

My Clean Week has been occupied by dirty politics. The preceding posts have been on...

February 22, 2018

On learning about ‘church politics’ when I was seven (Great Fast #4)

I am following the train of thought I've taken for these first few days of...

February 21, 2018

‘Politics is very close to your soul,’ or, how I learned about the Kyivan Church Study Group (Great Fast #3)

Early on in my catechumenate, my spiritual father told me about the Kyivan Church Study...

February 19, 2018

What neoconservatives want (Great Fast #1)

The most frequent words out of the mouth of Olivia Pope, played by Kerry Washington...

February 18, 2018

The broken mirror of social media (for Forgiveness Sunday)

Byung-chul Han despises social media. Part of it is that this form of self-publication is...

February 17, 2018

The way of the imbecile

The philosopher Avital Ronell says that we have been having a 'war on stupid.' Stupidity,...

February 15, 2018

They call me Prof Yenta

Some former students of mine have joked recently that I am basically 'Prof Yenta.' I...

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