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December 2017

December 29, 2017

To work on fantasy

When I was five, I had a nightmare. My parents rushed into the room because I was...

December 25, 2017

On ‘Mary, Did You Know?’

I remember the first time I heard 'Mary, Did You Know?' It was at a concert...

August 2017

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...

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...

July 2017

July 19, 2017

‘Today, I am going to teach you how to fall in love’: on I Kissed Dating Goodbye

A Protestant friend of mine told me recently that I have ‘an oedipal thing with...

July 18, 2017

Eugene Peterson (and ‘evangelicalism,’ more generally) in a world made up only of intentions

Eugene Peterson is a Protestant pastor and theologian. He is an ordained minister in the...

April 2017

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 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...

March 2017

March 31, 2017

Pence’s pattycake prohibition and postevangelical phantasies

There has been a good deal of attention being paid to the Vice President of...

March 27, 2017

Why I Blog (Part 5): joining the public blogosophere as Chinglican and Religion Ethnicity Wired

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

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 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 02, 2017

Against the Franklin Graham blackmail

I am starting to feel like writing about the slow-moving trainwreck that is the imminent...

December 2016

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...

July 2016

July 27, 2016

The Parastas That Became for Père Jacques

Yesterday afternoon at the Eastern Catholic Church in Richmond, we said a parastas. The Order of Parastas...

August 2015

August 21, 2015

To Josh Duggar, from a secular academic, on staying Christian

Dear Josh, We do not know each other, but as part of the reading and...

February 2015

February 10, 2015

Vancouver food recommendations for Josh Harris

I am late. Very late. On the day that Josh Harris announced to Covenant Life...

September 2014

September 29, 2014

It has always been the students – and the clergy — and Catholic social teaching #HongKongProtests

I've been blogging plenty lately about the recent occupation of Hong Kong. As the movement...

September 28, 2014

Cascadian Privates and Occupy Central

I've just gotten done with a conference called Christ and Cascadia. Just this morning, Pacific...

August 2014

August 28, 2014

In praise of Vicky Beeching, evangelical Anglican (Part 2)

In the spirit of more ancient texts that Churl will appreciate more than the average...

August 14, 2014

If #WeAreN, then solidarity with the dispossessed is a must

I have been reluctant to join #WeAreN because I am not sure that the Islamic...

August 08, 2014

Because Seattle is not as ‘secular’ as Mark Driscoll thinks, help is available. #TPCIU

In 2006, Mark Driscoll became the subject of both national and local Seattle controversy. Responding...

August 05, 2014

Justin’s Big BC Politics Primer, Part 3: Where You Think You’re Going, Baby?

This post is part of a series called Justin's Big BC Politics Primer. The first...

July 2014

July 31, 2014

Nobody cares about the Mars Hill protest. #TPCIU

Since writing my last post, I have learned that there is a planned protest by...

July 30, 2014

Mark Driscoll’s William Wallace posts were already public. #TPCIU

For some reason, my satirical post on how Mark Driscoll is forensically justified after his...

June 2014

June 19, 2014

Chinglican Christianity: Practicing Jesus-style Decolonization

My hat's off to Roger Revell for his third installment in the St. Peter's Fireside...

June 18, 2014

Chinglican Christianity: Infallibility Is Political

Stuff circulates when you're having a good time. Over the last day or so, my...

June 17, 2014

Chinglican Christianity: Nice Work

There's no fun like theological fun. Once upon a time, I thought that only the...

May 2014

May 11, 2014

Why Don’t You Want to Build a Snowman?

When I gave the lecture on the Christian Right in my American Religion class, I...

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