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April 2019

April 24, 2019

A child in Kassiani’s garden: for Great and Holy Wednesday

When I was about four, I once said to my elderly babysitter that my mom...

February 2019

February 16, 2019

The body exists, and I am one: the mystagogy of the time of Nativity

One of the graces of the Byzantine churches is our habit of echo-feasts. The Feast...

February 12, 2019

The passion of finding just one theologian to satiate theological desire: for the Three Holy Hierarchs

The evangelical preacher John Piper often relates the advice that he received when he attended...

February 06, 2019

Oikoumēnē is not ekklesia: my conversion from evangelical ecclesiology

As I've been working through much of my old work on Cantonese Protestants and getting...

December 2018

December 04, 2018

‘Out of the fish’s belly’: on the Holy Prophets Moses, Elias, Jonah, and the Forerunner John (St Philip’s Fast #6)

Back when I was an evangelical, a number of my sisters and brothers would refer...

December 03, 2018

Angels and archangels, all night, all day: on Holy Michael the Archangel and my guardian angel (St Philip’s Fast #5)

I don't know how it is for Protestants in communities in which I did not...

November 2018

November 30, 2018

I had an Asian American evangelical uniate dream last night

Last night, I had the Asian American evangelical uniate dream to own them all. I...

November 30, 2018

‘Mary, what are you thinking about?’: on the Oranta of Kyiv and the Theotokos of Belz-Częstochowa (St Philip’s Fast #3)

I grew up evangelical. Things make sense to me in the theological register of evangelicalism,...

November 29, 2018

‘Come, the table is prepared; come, join the feast’: on Rublev’s Trinity as the Hospitality of Abraham (St Philip’s Fast #2)

My friend Abraham used to bake cranberry bread for communion at an evangelical church that...

October 2018

October 27, 2018

‘Walking, stumbling, on these shadowfeet’: re-visiting the ‘postevangelical’ as ‘postsecular’

Two nights ago, I went on a whim to see what Brooke Fraser is doing...

October 09, 2018

Theology is the exegesis of love (for the repose of Holy John the Theologian)

I have long reflected on why, mysteriously, the Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian...

September 2018

September 04, 2018

Another cantoring dream – quilting Greek chant, hipster evangelicalism, and the Anglican realignment

The thing I remember about the beginning of this dream was that it was a...

July 2018

July 30, 2018

First thoughts on Andy Warhol and Eastern Catholicism, with thanks again to Eugenia

Yesterday, we dropped off our dear sister Eugenia Geisel at the train, fresh from a...

July 28, 2018

To have been a child of the nineties: reflections on sex, conservatism, and pop culture

I am a child of the nineties. It has been hard for me to admit...

July 27, 2018

On my extended adolescence in differentiating from evangelicalism

My spiritual father read my daddy issues post yesterday and began watching Hillsong videos. He...

July 26, 2018

‘Call no man father’: daddy issues and the church

It is occasionally offensive to me, when I am in a Big Mood state, to...

July 14, 2018

Transference, mystagogy, and freedom from intellectual second-guessing

Two Fridays ago at the Feast of Ss Peter and Paul on the New Calendar, I...

July 10, 2018

Asian American evangelicals, Eastern Catholics, and the question of uniatism

I don't know what it says about me that the most popular post around here...

July 04, 2018

The anti-orientalism of Asian American evangelicalism is far from complete: Eugene Cho, Eastern Orthodoxy, and ecclesial death

My dear friend, the Claremont ethicist Grace Kao, nominated me last week on facebook to...

June 2018

June 22, 2018

Evangelicalism and the pornification of conservative politics in the Americas

It is actually not difficult to understand why it is that evangelicals are now supporting...

May 2018

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 17, 2018

‘Not by might, not by power, but by the Spirit of God,’ or, how I play the piano like a trashy Pentecostal (Album Challenge #5)

Around the time I entered junior high, my mom decided that it was time that...

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 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...

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 27, 2018

i was a man of god dreaming of manic pixie dream girls (Great Fast #9)

I became a self-described 'man of god' because I was rejected by a girl. It...

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...

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...

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