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February 2018

February 14, 2018

The Freud candle house blessing

A few Sundays ago, I invited the group that I facetiously call the Kyivan Psychoanalysis...

February 13, 2018

Tolstoy and my model minority mirror

Yesterday I wrote about how I recently read Tolstoy's 'Kreutzer Sonata' during this Preparation period...

February 12, 2018

Writing myself to a sea-change

I said in my last post that last year's Great Fast helped me to discover...

February 11, 2018

A preparation for new reflections on the everyday supernatural (for Meatfare Sunday 2018)

This is the week. Scrolling down my Facebook wall, I see the familiar ritual. I have...

January 2018

January 14, 2018

The young bishops, the people’s theosis, and my academic praxis (for Zacchaeus Sunday)

For those of us on the New Calendar, Zacchaeus Sunday has come too soon. Just...

January 08, 2018

Lipstick on my relics

Eugenia Geisel is one of my former students at the University of Washington and is...

January 07, 2018

From Richmond to Evanston, Christ is among us – for Christ is baptized!

Today, I went straight from liturgy to the airport. I live between two suburbs, Richmond...

January 06, 2018

Theophany at the Chinese mission of the Kyivan Church in Richmond

There is nowhere on earth like the Chinese mission of the Kyivan Church, the place...

December 2017

December 21, 2017

Liberation psychology and the Kyivan Church’s anti-colonial study group (My conversion to liberation theology #9)

This is the ninth in a series of posts testifying about my conversion to liberation theology. For...

December 19, 2017

The spiritual direction of Eastern Catholic materialism (My conversion to liberation theology #7)

This is the seventh in a series of posts testifying about my conversion to liberation theology. For...

December 12, 2017

My conversion to liberation theology

I was telling a colleague recently that it is a little bit funny that my...

November 2017

November 23, 2017

On Dreher, Peterson, and intellectual life

My family is in Canada, and I've already celebrated Thanksgiving with them in October. Accordingly,...

October 2017

October 31, 2017

Luther and me: thoughts for Reformation Day on its 500th anniversary

I remember the first time I learned about Martin Luther. My dad came home after...

October 04, 2017

Abba Francis

Today on the New Calendar is the Feast of Our Venerable Father among the Saints...

October 03, 2017

My pilgrimage for Pokrov last year

On September 30, 2016, I got on a Greyhound from Chicago up to Ann Arbor....

September 2017

September 29, 2017

Grounding theologies: owning my personhood three years out from the Umbrella Movement

A day after the Umbrella Movement began on 28 September 2014, I sat down to...

September 28, 2017

More reflections on the Internet, thanks to Zoë Quinn’s new book

I just finished reading Zoë Quinn's very new book Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My...

September 26, 2017

Online humiliation and the pedagogy of the Holy Cross

Many years ago, I sent a note to a person who was a mentor of...

September 09, 2017

‘Do you know why Hannah was so hurt?’: reflections on the Holy Ancestors

The story of Hannah that opens the Prophecy of Samuel has been one of my...

September 08, 2017

And I, I did not even know it: on the Nativity of the Theotokos

Last night, I walked to Great Vespers for the Nativity of the Theotokos at the...

September 01, 2017

Geography, the writing of the earth: reflections for the beginning of the Byzantine Year

I have a PhD in geography, so it follows that I should have something to...

August 2017

August 31, 2017

In appreciation of Artur Rosman’s Catholic imagination

My friend Artur Rosman got a job. I don't know why so many of us...

August 30, 2017

Writing as a convert

There has been a little bit of a dust-up in the Latin Church recently about converts...

August 28, 2017

Race and the passions: musings on the Feast of St Moses the Black, St Augustine of Hippo, and Blessed Gebremichael

Today on the Newer Calendar of the Kyivan Church, we commemorate three African saints: our...

August 22, 2017

SERIES: Reflections on the Most Holy Theotokos and her Dormition

Over the duration of the Dormition Fast on the New Calendar (August 1-15), I wrote...

August 15, 2017

The theology of the Dormition (Dormition Fast #15/Dormition Feast)

I started this blog right before the Dormition Fast last year. Because of that, I announced...

August 15, 2017

The assumption of the people (Dormition Fast #14)

Recently, a priest of the Latin Church impressed on me the significance for the West...

August 15, 2017

The presence of the Wise Older Women (Dormition Fast #13)

Psychoanalyze me, but I am often given to being taken in by the advice of...

August 14, 2017

The conversion of the goddesses (Dormition Fast #12)

My friend, the journalist and filmmaker Julian Hayda, has written a paper that he let...

August 12, 2017

The children of the New Eve have lost their innocence (Dormition Fast #11)

Once, when I was eleven, my mother picked me up from school during lunch. I...

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