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June 2019

June 10, 2019

This time, I have a tradition: on solidarity with the Hong Kong extradition protests in Chicago

I was holding my icon of the Holy Martyrs of China on my heart at...

April 2019

April 20, 2019

Christian atheism as orthodox liberation from the tragic farce of privilege: for Lazarus Saturday

The next time some chump in any of the Christian communions says to me that...

February 2019

February 11, 2019

‘Don’t know much about geography’: Sam Cooke in a Seattle postdoc

My wife and I were on the lower story of Seattle's Pike Place Market, the...

January 2019

January 21, 2019

A shirt for Martin Luther King, Jr Day

I wore this shirt for this year's secular Feast of our Brother among the Saints...

October 2018

October 13, 2018

Reading Sobrino on Óscar Romero and the glory of God

I confess, and do not deny, that I have had difficulty reading the works of...

October 13, 2018

The Non-Alignment of the People of God

Tomorrow, Archbishop Oscar Romero, the martyred Latin hierarch of El Salvador in the 1980s, will...

September 2018

September 14, 2018

The moral, the theological, and the political (Series Recap: ‘I give you three years to narrate yourself’)

Sam Rocha gave me three years to narrate myself on this blog, and I made...

September 12, 2018

Cantoring, cinematic transference, and chastity (‘I give you three years to narrate yourself’ #6)

This is the sixth in a series reflecting on what I've been doing on the...

September 10, 2018

Liberation theology taught me the meaning of community is to treasure my brothers more than my fathers (‘I give you three years to narrate yourself’ #4)

This is the fourth in a series reflecting on what I've been doing on the...

September 03, 2018

The Francis Ideology

Years ago, my friend Sam Rocha wrote a piece on the then-newly elected Pope Francis...

June 2018

June 04, 2018

The Wound of History

In my first childhood memory, I am standing by the fireplace. It's made of brick,...

May 2018

May 03, 2018

‘I write to save my soul’: thoughts on writing for mid-Pascha

It is mid-Pascha, and I have not blogged for a while. But on Monday, I...

December 2017

December 28, 2017

‘…and suburban place I’ve been, make me recall my name in the New Jerusalem’ (My conversion to liberation theology #13)

This is the thirteenth entry in a series of posts testifying about my conversion to liberation theology....

December 27, 2017

Illich and Ilyich (My conversion to liberation theology #12)

This is the twelfth entry in a series of posts testifying about my conversion to liberation theology....

December 24, 2017

The therapeutic excess of white evangelical psychology in Chinese evangelicalism (My conversion to liberation theology #11)

This is the eleventh in a series of posts testifying about my conversion to liberation theology. For previous...

December 22, 2017

The ‘suffering’ of the model minority (My conversion to liberation theology #10)

This is the tenth in a series of posts testifying about my conversion to liberation theology....

December 21, 2017

Liberation psychology and the Kyivan Church’s anti-colonial study group (My conversion to liberation theology #9)

This is the ninth in a series of posts testifying about my conversion to liberation theology. For...

December 20, 2017

Theological agency in Asian American studies (My conversion to liberation theology #8)

This is the eighth in a series of posts testifying about my conversion to liberation theology. For previous...

December 19, 2017

The spiritual direction of Eastern Catholic materialism (My conversion to liberation theology #7)

This is the seventh in a series of posts testifying about my conversion to liberation theology. For...

December 18, 2017

The problem of ideology in my writing (My conversion to liberation theology #6)

This is the sixth in a series of posts testifying about my conversion to liberation theology. For...

December 17, 2017

The Umbrella Movement exacerbated my mental tension between the ‘politics of the parish’ and the primal personal (My conversion to liberation theology #5)

This is the fifth in a series of posts testifying about my conversion to liberation theology....

December 15, 2017

On my encounter with erotic Catholic personalism (My conversion to liberation theology #4)

This is the fourth in a series of posts testifying about my conversion to liberation theology....

December 14, 2017

To have been so right, and yet so wrong, about the private consensus (My conversion to liberation theology #3)

This is the third in a series of posts testifying about my conversion to liberation theology....

December 13, 2017

On the ‘good politics’ of Radical Orthodoxy, by which I mean Anglicanism (My conversion to liberation theology #2)

This is the second in a series of posts testifying about my conversion to liberation theology....

December 12, 2017

My conversion to liberation theology

I was telling a colleague recently that it is a little bit funny that my...

September 2017

September 29, 2017

Grounding theologies: owning my personhood three years out from the Umbrella Movement

A day after the Umbrella Movement began on 28 September 2014, I sat down to...

July 2017

July 10, 2017

‘Dead white guys,’ Asian style

Among Sam Rocha's essays in Tell Them Something Beautiful, one of the ones that most resonates with...

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...

December 2016

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...

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