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August 2014

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...

August 04, 2014

Justin’s Big BC Politics Primer, Part 2: A BC Day Review

The best day to start our Big British Columbia Politics Primer again is British Columbia...

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...

July 17, 2014

Should Asian Americans/Canadians care about Hong Kong? Part 4: The UK Question

This is the fourth installment of a series on whether Asian Americans and Asian Canadians...

July 16, 2014

Should Asian Americans/Canadians care about Hong Kong? Part 3: What’s Political Agency For?

You can follow earlier installations of this series in the following posts: Part 1: The...

July 15, 2014

Should Asian Americans/Canadians care about Hong Kong? Part 2: The Asian American/Canadian answer.

This series began yesterday with this more personal post here. I also have previous posts...

July 14, 2014

Should Asian Americans/Canadians care about Hong Kong? Part 1: The Preschool Answer

Previously, I've posted on Taiwan's student movement, Hong Kong's Occupy Central movement, and the Tiananmen...

July 03, 2014

Yes to Tiananmen invocations, but no, not what you think. #OccupyCentral #CongressOccupied

What I hear most about the recent democratic happenings in Hong Kong and Taiwan is...

July 02, 2014

‘We Are Pissed Off Too!’ #HongKong #OccupyCentral #TPCIU

On March 3, 2012, I marched from Hong Kong's Victoria Park with a bunch of...

June 2014

June 30, 2014

We are now all sociologists of religion. #HobbyLobby

Today's decision hot off the Supreme Court of the United States's press presents a compelling...

June 11, 2014

Justin’s Big BC Politics Primer, Part 1: Lawyers and Teachers and Strikes, Oh My!

When I first moved to British Columbia, I spoke like an American, I thought like...

June 10, 2014

The Road to Exegesis is Paved with Intentions

The recent news about the forced retirement of Doug Green from Westminster Theological Seminary (WTS)...

May 2014

May 13, 2014

Monica Lewinsky made me think of my 1990s childhood

Last Thursday was the feast day of the fourteenth-century visionary and theologian Julian of Norwich....

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...

May 06, 2014

Considering and Contesting Calvin

Whenever I write about controversies, say, at Sovereign Grace Ministries or Mars Hill Church, I...

May 03, 2014

#SourcesoftheSelfie, or my students taught me how to run a secular classroom

It's a cliché to say that one's students will teach a teacher more than a...

April 2014

April 27, 2014

The Canonization of Vatican II on Divine Mercy Sunday

Deus misericordiæ sempiteranæ, qui in ipso paschali festi recursu fidem sacratæ tibi plebis accendis auge...

April 05, 2014

Will the Mars Hill case be a religious freedom case?

#TPCIU just got real. After following all the drama unfolding around Mars Hill Church on...

March 2014

March 24, 2014

Pay attention, people. Taiwan matters. Hong Kong matters.

Consider this post a placeholder. I am writing this post simply to signal that we...

March 11, 2014

Who Cares About Megachurch Scandals? Or, a post about private sovereignties

With the recent spate of controversy surrounding megachurch pastors like Mark Driscoll, Steve Furtick, and...

March 08, 2014

Cosmos the in Lost: The Ecumenism of the Private Consensus

Greetings from Seattle. I'm happy to report that I've left Storybrooke and resettled at the...

December 2013

December 31, 2013

Breaking the Curse of Academic (Dis)enchantment

As I prepare to move to Seattle, I am also saying goodbye to a place...

December 24, 2013

A Liberal on an Evangelical on Christmas Eve

I cannot tell you how happy I am that the Vancouver Sun's spirituality and diversity...

December 20, 2013

Duck Dynasty and the Corporatized State, or ‘The Kimye Hermeneutic’

To be honest, I was not interested in the Duck Dynasty fiasco until Sarah Pulliam...

December 18, 2013

‘Because of the biblical manner in which Pastor Driscoll has handled this situation…’

Mark Driscoll has broken his silence. Embedded in a statement released by Tyndale House publishers...

December 12, 2013

Contesting the Americas with Our Lady of Guadalupe

Despite my efforts to get back to the evangelical material with #TPCIU (though it is...

December 08, 2013

Why My Catholic Colleagues Should Care About Chinatown

It occurred to me when I mentioned Artur Rosman and Cosmos the in Lost in...

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