Buddhist Catholic Contemplative Evangelical General Christian Hindu Jewish Latter-day Saint Muslim New Visions Progressive Christian

Beliefs

Topics

Columnists

Resource Library

Research Tools

Video

Podcasts

Thought Readers

Faith In Media Tracker

Newsletters

Ad-Free & Subscriber Log-In Subscription Support

Follow Patheos

Eastern Catholic Person

Home
Catholic

Protestant

Select a Category Academia Anglican Communion anti-racism Aristotle Asia-Pacific Asian American Asian Canadian BlackLivesMatter Cantonese Catholic China Chinglican church politics Church-State Politics Civil Society Conservative Eastern Christianity Evangelical Evangelical Left Feminist/Womanist Theology Food Greek-Catholic Church of Kyiv Hong Kong Housekeeping Kyivan Church Latin Catholicism Law Liberal Liberation Theology New Calvinism Pentecostal/Charismatic Protestant Psychoanalysis Publics Religion Ethnicity Wired Secular Sovereignty TPCIU Uncategorized

Select a Month July 2019 June 2019 May 2019 April 2019 March 2019 February 2019 January 2019 December 2018 November 2018 October 2018 September 2018 August 2018 July 2018 June 2018 May 2018 March 2018 February 2018 January 2018 December 2017 November 2017 October 2017 September 2017 August 2017 July 2017 June 2017 April 2017 March 2017 February 2017 January 2017 December 2016 November 2016 October 2016 September 2016 August 2016 July 2016 January 2016 December 2015 November 2015 October 2015 August 2015 April 2015 March 2015 February 2015 December 2014 November 2014 September 2014 August 2014 July 2014 June 2014 May 2014 April 2014 March 2014 December 2013 November 2013 October 2013 September 2013 August 2013 July 2013 June 2013 May 2013 April 2013 March 2013 February 2013 January 2013 December 2012 October 2012 June 2012 May 2012 April 2012 February 2012 January 2012

April 2019

April 22, 2019

Teaching Genesis: for Great and Holy Monday

If there is a text by which my teaching career has been defined, it is...

November 2018

November 28, 2018

‘…that I may carry out your holy and true command’: on the San Damiano Cross and the theologia crucis (St Philip’s Fast #1)

I was having a conversation recently with a Korean American friend of mine who finds...

November 27, 2018

‘Philip, go south’: revisiting my family history in the Chinese church (for the Feast of the Holy Apostle Philip)

In the autumn of 1999, our family was in a bit of a lurch. My...

November 09, 2018

‘God’s approach to you is very strict’: a Chinese Christian child’s testimony of everyday life

My introduction to Asian martial traditions began when I was eight. My dad and I...

November 08, 2018

The spear against the shield: the fear of sex and icons in my Chinese Protestant childhood

The rediscovery of my Chineseness after my conversion to Eastern Catholicism, which seems to be...

September 2018

September 26, 2018

Crossing the rooms of the intellect

Once upon a time, the Jesuit scholar Matteo Ricci impressed the Ming imperial court...

September 13, 2018

Where there are people, there are politics, and I write about church politics (‘I give you three years to narrate yourself #7)

This is the seventh and final post in a series reflecting on what I've been...

September 08, 2018

My wife is not ‘my Virgin Mary’ (Nativity of the Theotokos)

What do I say about Mary Godbearer on this Feast of her Nativity, the first...

July 2018

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...

May 2018

May 29, 2018

Repenting of the postmodern politics of the pure heart

Sister Vassa (Larin) has begun a podcast series on Psalm 50. When I was a...

October 2017

October 31, 2017

Luther and me: thoughts for Reformation Day on its 500th anniversary

I remember the first time I learned about Martin Luther. My dad came home after...

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 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 09, 2017

‘Theologos, save us?! Whaaat?’: through the prayers of the Theotokos (Dormition Fast #7)

Recently, I was at an evangelical Protestant college event as a workshop speaker, and as...

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...

July 2017

July 26, 2017

Being Eastern Catholic, writing about evangelicals

I am Eastern Catholic, and I have spent the last week writing about the Protestant...

July 21, 2017

Richard Mouw and the Chinese church

At least among the friends I keep, the piece that the Reformed evangelical theologian Richard...

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 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...

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...

March 2017

March 25, 2017

Reliving my catechumenate while writing about Protestants

I had an inkling as I went into this year's Great Fast that things were...

March 12, 2017

‘Spirit, lead me where my trust is without borders’

I feel like I have been basking in the Uncreated Light of Tabor on this...

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 03, 2017

Lord, even as I write about Protestants, drive from me the spirit of sloth, despair, lust for power, and idle chatter

The origins of the Great Fast, I am told, lie in the catechumenate. In anticipation...

February 2017

February 26, 2017

An Eastern Catholic critique of the ecumenical Vancouver letter regarding Franklin Graham

The coming of the American evangelist Franklin Graham to headline the Festival of Hope in...

December 2016

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...

July 2016

July 26, 2016

I’m a person on Patheos!

I'm on Patheos! It is a bit strange to say that, but here I am,...

December 2015

December 09, 2015

Courageously mourning with Eastern Catholics

Recently, I organized an event for an Eastern Catholic parish. I am not Eastern Catholic....

November 2015

November 01, 2015

The Subject of the Big Jesuit Plot

I've recently begun seeing a Jesuit spiritual director. In light of the big Catholic Twitter...

Related posts from Eastern Catholic Person

Catholic

I've found my way home: on the unraveling...

Eastern Catholic Person

Catholic

Patriyarkhat: 'Attending to the movements of my heart'

Eastern Catholic Person

Catholic

I'm flattered to be named an Asian American...

Eastern Catholic Person

Catholic

The secular does not stop when your drive...

Eastern Catholic Person

Ad-Free & Subscriber Log-In Subscription Support

Subscription Support Ad-Free & Subscriber Log-In

Follow Patheos