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August 2017

August 11, 2017

The private consensus is unraveling (Dormition Fast #10)

In 2013, in the year of the election of Jorge Mario Cardinal Bergoglio SJ as Pope...

August 10, 2017

The primal catholicity of the Immovable Wall (Dormition Fast #9)

Of all the scary things that an Eastern Catholic can say to someone in the...

August 09, 2017

My D-I-Y Rosary (Dormition Fast #8)

The first time I prayed the rosary was in a class on Christian spirituality at the...

August 09, 2017

‘Theologos, save us?! Whaaat?’: through the prayers of the Theotokos (Dormition Fast #7)

Recently, I was at an evangelical Protestant college event as a workshop speaker, and as...

August 08, 2017

‘More Catholic than the Catholics’: a tale of transfiguration (Dormition Fast #6)

By the time I was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Washington, I thought...

August 06, 2017

‘Like a weaned child with its mother’: on the ideological nonchalance of doxology (Dormition Fast #5)

I told a rather prominent Anglican ecumenist recently that when I was an Anglican in...

August 04, 2017

Being afraid of the Theotokos as Catholic, charismatic, carnal (Dormition Fast #3)

I attended a school run by an Assemblies of God church in Fremont, California, from...

August 02, 2017

‘I see the Blessed Virgin standing next to you’ (Dormition Fast #2)

A few years ago, when I was very single, I used to see a Filipina...

August 01, 2017

The bearing of God, the death of triumphalism (Dormition Fast #1)

There is a story about Constantinople that makes the inner evangelical in me wince. It's...

July 2017

July 31, 2017

Dormition posts on the Theotokos

The Dormition Fast begins tomorrow. I figure that with all this stuff I've been writing...

July 26, 2017

Being Eastern Catholic, writing about evangelicals

I am Eastern Catholic, and I have spent the last week writing about the Protestant...

July 24, 2017

As one adopted into the Church of Kyiv

The first time that I ever stepped foot in an Eastern Catholic temple was for...

July 08, 2017

LAST WEEK’S SERIES: being Cantonese in the church’s service of liberation to the world

On Monday, I wrote a post on Hong Kong, and I was frustrated. Perhaps the uneasiness...

July 07, 2017

To write Cantonese, to write the truth, to write in the Spirit who renews the face of the earth

I am finding these days that whenever I write something, I usually get pulled despite...

July 06, 2017

To be Cantonese in a colonized church

A few weeks ago, I was having pizza and beer with a group of people...

July 05, 2017

On my bad jook sing translation of the ‘air of righteousness’ (Cantonese, yi-hei 義氣)

In my last post, I sort of let the cat out of the bag on...

July 04, 2017

When I say that I am Cantonese, this is where I am and am not from

I remember the first time I crossed the Tsing Ma Bridge from Lantau Island. I had...

July 03, 2017

Hong Kong, the city that I love, but not where I am from

Though I am not from Hong Kong, it has played a central role in informing...

July 02, 2017

Wonderworker of the latter times

Over the weekend, folks at our temple in Richmond joined in the Orthodox celebration of...

June 2017

June 30, 2017

Two pieces on the Trump Era

I've written two pieces on the Trump Era that I've published online outside of this...

June 29, 2017

‘It’s how love works, man’

The day after my chrismation - on the proper feast day of Ss Peter and...

June 28, 2017

Some not-very-profound musings on my chrismation anniversary

It is my chrismation anniversary today. I was chrismated on the Vigil of Ss Peter...

June 24, 2017

I’m back

This is my first post in over two months. With it, I'm happy to say...

April 2017

April 27, 2017

To make philosophia my way of life in the academy

Yesterday night, I went home to discover in my mailbox that Dariusz Karłowicz's new book Socrates...

April 21, 2017

Receiving Pulpit and Pen’s apology toward the ‘Eastern Orthodox community’

Christ is risen! Dear Mr Hall, Thank you for writing your apology to 'the Eastern...

April 20, 2017

We have a new bishop!

Christ is risen! Христос воскрес! 基督復活了! I am so excited. I woke up to news this...

April 19, 2017

A response to the hit piece on Hank Hanegraaf’s Greek Orthodox temple

Christ is risen! Dear Mr Maples, I have read your piece describing your attempt...

April 17, 2017

Full communion in the fire of the Spirit: Kyivan, Latin, Anglican, Irish, Pascha

I've made no secret that I attended the Easter Vigil at a Latin parish in...

April 16, 2017

Christ is risen from the dead, trampling death by death #Pascha2017

Christ is risen! Христос Воскрес! I have much more to say tomorrow about the Latin service...

April 15, 2017

Arise, O G-d, and judge the earth! #HolySaturday

Holy Saturday is interrupted. During the Holy Saturday Liturgy, the Byzantine churches read passages from...

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