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January 2017

January 08, 2017

‘Catholics on the Eastside, we gotta stick together’

Yesterday, after posting my 3,744-too-many-words on the autonomy of Eastern Catholics in response to Chase...

January 07, 2017

Practicing ‘autonomy’ with Eastern Catholics: a response to Chase Padusniak

Chase Padusniak has done it again with another hit piece. This time, he's written a primer...

January 06, 2017

Some of my Cantonese friends seem superstitious about holy water, and I don’t think that’s anything to mock

It's Theophany today, and that has me thinking about the holy water that is sanctified...

January 05, 2017

The baptism of Christ chases the dragons out of the water, freeing me from my obsession with identity

I am so glad to have gone to the Vigil of Theophany at our local...

January 05, 2017

Theophany with the Orthodox in the cold

I'm sitting in a coffee shop in Chicago's Old Town waiting for the Vigil for...

January 01, 2017

For 2017: what the Holy Hierarch Basil taught me about ‘economia’ in 2016

Last year just before midnight on New Year's Eve, I wanted to post something clever...

December 2016

December 24, 2016

Taking the secret of the Nativity everywhere with the portable icon I got at my chrismation

A Byzantine priest told me recently that Nativity is not as great of a feast...

December 24, 2016

Nativity 2016: God is with us! Understand, all you nations, and submit yourselves, for God is with us!

They say that 2016 was a pretty terrible year, and they (whoever 'they' are) seem to...

December 23, 2016

Late for an Umbrella Movement retreat, I learned makrodiakonia as the art of political discernment by accidentally walking through the deacon door

Shortly after the clergy prayer meeting that I wrote about in my last post, the...

December 16, 2016

By participating in the Umbrella Movement, the Eastern Catholic Church’s gutsyness inspired Vancouver’s younger Chinese evangelicals

In my last post on first encountering a Chinese Canadian Eastern Catholic Jesuit priest at...

December 15, 2016

My first personal encounter with an Eastern Catholic priest was during the Umbrella Movement

A few weeks ago, a friend and I were having a conversation during which I...

December 12, 2016

Ms Lauryn Hill, the theologian I finally heard

Around late August last year, I was scrolling through my news feed when I saw...

December 08, 2016

What’s So Good About Being Eastern Catholic?

When I was blogging as Chinglican at Table at a group blog called A Christian...

December 08, 2016

Immanuel Moleben in Richmond reminded me that Eastern Catholicism is a social justice tradition

Tonight I got to go to Immanuel Moleben. It was awesome. For those who are...

December 07, 2016

Maybe doubt sown by the Trumping of Taiwan can be productive for Catholics

Every so often, some areas of my academic research agenda become of interest to Americans....

October 2016

October 13, 2016

I haven’t written for a while, I want to write about the elections, I have nothing to say to the multitude, I’m going to put my new chotki to use

I have not written for a while, and I suspect that some might be glad...

September 2016

September 20, 2016

Rublev’s Trinity helps me remember what I’m building with hospitality (Icons in my Asian American studies office – #2)

I'm blogging through my office decor this week, even though Byzantine icons are so much...

September 19, 2016

Icons in my Asian American studies office

I haven't blogged for a little bit because I've been getting ready for the beginning...

September 12, 2016

A prayer for Chase Padusniak, on the Leave-Taking of the Nativity of the Theotokos

By now, I'm sure everyone has read the story of my friend Chase Padusniak, who...

September 08, 2016

Kissing my Mom, the Theotokos and Ever-Virgin, on Her birthday

After I posted once on the Theotokos of Częstochowa, I recently got called out on...

September 06, 2016

The Missionaries of Charity almost made me miss a flight once because they caused a little explosion of love in my heart

Two days ago, the Latin Church canonized Mother Teresa of Calcutta. As usual, I am late...

August 2016

August 26, 2016

Logging what I saw on the web on the Theotokos on this Latin Feast of the Lady of Częstochowa

I am grateful both to my student Eugenia Geisel and my friends at Steel Magnificat for...

August 25, 2016

Jezu ufam Tobie: Apostle of Divine Mercy, St. Faustina Kowalska – Eugenia Geisel (Retracing My Footsteps in the City of Saints #3)

This is the third in a series of posts entitled Retracing My Footsteps in the City...

August 24, 2016

‘He loved you, and he prayed for you’: I’m not Ukrainian, but my bishops are Ukrainian Catholic (Catholicity: Identity and Its Discontents)

This is my second post in the Patheos Catholic forum 'Catholicity: Identity and Its Discontents.'...

August 19, 2016

Most Holy Theotokos, save us (Catholicity: Identity and Its Discontents)

This is the first post on my blog to mention the forum 'Catholicity: Identity and...

August 19, 2016

Encompass us beneath the precious veil of your protection

The Gospel in Wednesday's lectionary readings on the New Calendar is a familiar story; the...

August 17, 2016

Help the Byzantine monks to burn the mortgage!

On Byzantine internet, there is an appeal that is going around that is well worth...

August 15, 2016

Dormition is the name of the temple where I was assumed by Eastern Catholics

As the Feast of the Dormition wraps up, I feel like I have some explaining...

August 10, 2016

A retraction to my students, some clarifications, a bit of fun, and a hearty introduction

I've been quite quiet on the blog for the last few days because I've been...

August 07, 2016

I’m getting my chrismation icons blessed!

I was chrismated on the Vigil of Ss Peter and Paul on June 28. It...

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