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April 2017

April 15, 2017

Into the depths: reflections on a catechumenate relived

Great and Holy Saturday is upon us. The Great Fast has been over for a...

April 15, 2017

Hiatus

Today he who hung the earth upon the waters is hung upon the tree. Christ...

April 12, 2017

The face of the Bridegroom in the Gospels

One of the moments when I knew that I had to become Catholic was when...

April 11, 2017

‘Our regular gift before feasts’: Catholic reflections on the New-Martyrs of Palm Sunday of the Church of Holy Mark the Evangelist

It is now two days past Palm Sunday, making my reflections perhaps tardy. To be...

April 03, 2017

There is nothing respectable about Eastern Christianity: a catechumen’s essay on Frederica Matthewes-Green’s Facing East

As I relive my catechumenate during this Great Fast, there's a piece that I want...

April 02, 2017

Great Canon Reflections, Part 3: Holy Mary of Egypt and the erotics of holiness

This is the third in a series of posts on the Great Canon of St Andrew...

April 01, 2017

Great Canon Reflections, Part 2: on Abba Zosima as ‘spiritual father’ and his encounter with Holy Mary of Egypt

This is the second in a series of posts on the Great Canon of St...

April 01, 2017

‘Rejoice, Thou Bride Unwedded!’ #AkathistSaturday

The tradition of our church is to hold the Saturday of the Fifth Week of the...

March 2017

March 30, 2017

Great Canon Reflections, Part 1: on being tricked into doing proper prostrations at the Great Canon of St Andrew of Crete

This is the first in a series of posts on the Great Canon of St...

March 26, 2017

‘When you think you’re there, that’s when you fall’

One of the most memorable things for me at the beginning of this Great Fast...

March 25, 2017

Reliving my catechumenate while writing about Protestants

I had an inkling as I went into this year's Great Fast that things were...

March 25, 2017

Why I Blog (Part 4): Vox Nova in Hong Kong

This is the fourth post in a series on why I blog with no authority....

March 25, 2017

The Theotokos came to me through the Word #Annunciation

When I was an evangelical, one of the things that everyone kept harping about when...

March 15, 2017

Sloth is not hesychasm

Because those of us in the Byzantine churches practice the Prayer of Holy Ephrem the...

March 12, 2017

‘Spirit, lead me where my trust is without borders’

I feel like I have been basking in the Uncreated Light of Tabor on this...

March 12, 2017

I am a terrible hesychast

The Great Fast is supposed to be a yearly revisitation of one's catechumenate, and it...

March 11, 2017

Hesychasm is about the body

In the Byzantine churches, today is the Sunday of Holy Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessaloniki...

March 11, 2017

The Blog in the Economia of Academic Writing

Yesterday, I had an illuminating conversation with a senior colleague who showed me something about...

March 10, 2017

To be intellectually chaste

A trusted friend told me over the last week that my writing - both published...

March 09, 2017

Why I Blog (Part 3): the Chinglican gag on A Christian Thing

This is the third post in a series on why I blog with no authority....

March 08, 2017

I went to a student recital, and the intensity of the music-making destroyed any notion that classical music is about the model minority

It is to the credit of two Northwestern freshmen's social media skills that I ended...

March 08, 2017

Why I Blog (Part 2): I used to have no sense of the public sphere

This is the second part in a series of posts about why I blog with...

March 08, 2017

Why I Blog (Part 1)

Over the weekend, I was told several times by several people from different circles with...

March 05, 2017

Repenting of triumphalism on the Sunday of Orthodoxy

When I was doing my catechumenate, one of the things that my spiritual father got...

March 04, 2017

Listening to the ‘model minority’ because I know too much about it

This week, I have been up to my ears teaching about what is popularly called...

March 03, 2017

Lord, even as I write about Protestants, drive from me the spirit of sloth, despair, lust for power, and idle chatter

The origins of the Great Fast, I am told, lie in the catechumenate. In anticipation...

February 2017

February 26, 2017

I’ll never do that again: reflecting on criticizing Protestants on Forgiveness Sunday

Today is Forgiveness Sunday. For us in the Byzantine churches, today is the start of...

February 18, 2017

Mikrodiakonia, or why it’s important that I’m not having meat for a while

I haven't written for a while, though again this is not due as much to...

January 2017

January 20, 2017

I’m just being a stereotypically boring academic today #Inauguration2017

There is a post for which I got a good deal of flak that I...

January 09, 2017

In high school, I wanted to become a Byzantine historian, but all I became was a Byzantine blogger

Around my sophomore year in high school, my uncle told me that his neighbor was...

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