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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...

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 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 31, 2017

Le surnaturel is a mess: everyday musings on the Feast of St Ignatius

My spiritual father is a Jesuit, and he has invited me as well as this...

July 22, 2017

Retracing My Footsteps in the City of Saints (#6a): A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Catholic: Part 1 – by Eugenia Geisel

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

July 09, 2017

Sam Rocha told me something beautiful

Sam Rocha told me recently that I am not a geographer. You are a geometer, he...

June 2017

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...

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 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

Into the depths: reflections on a catechumenate relived

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

March 2017

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...

February 2017

February 20, 2017

Retracing My Footsteps in the City of Saints #5: He Makes All Things New: St. Maximilian Kolbe, Martyr of Auschwitz – Eugenia Geisel

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

December 2016

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 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....

November 2016

November 15, 2016

For the Least of These: St. Albert Chmielowski – Eugenia Geisel (Retracing My Footsteps in the City of Saints #4)

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

September 2016

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 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 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...

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