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2017-07-09T00:11:06-07:00

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Sam Rocha told me something beautiful

Last updated on: July 9, 2017 at 12:11 am By Justin Tse

Sam Rocha told me recently that I am not a geographer. You are a geometer, he said. Meter precedes writing. Among the many things he has told me, this is the most recent, I think. He has actually been telling me things for a long time, from before the time we met (online, as it happened). This is because, as I’ve said before, I devoured everything on Vox Nova back in the day. Sam wrote on Vox Nova. He wrote about schooling and... Read more

2017-07-08T09:22:57-07:00

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LAST WEEK’S SERIES: being Cantonese in the church’s service of liberation to the world

Last updated on: July 8, 2017 at 9:22 am By Justin Tse

On Monday, I wrote a post on Hong Kong, and I was frustrated. Perhaps the uneasiness had begun on Sunday, when I had written on St John the Wonderworker of Shanghai and San Francisco. By the end of the week, my restlessness had turned into a weeklong blog series. My uneasiness lay in the fact that I had declared that I would be using this blog for makrodiakonia, the service the church performs for the world in discerning, challenging, and even dismantling... Read more

2017-07-07T11:50:07-07:00

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To write Cantonese, to write the truth, to write in the Spirit who renews the face of the earth

Last updated on: July 7, 2017 at 11:50 am By Justin Tse

I am finding these days that whenever I write something, I usually get pulled despite my best attempts at discipline toward unexpected rabbit trails that I feel compelled to follow. Sometimes, as I was trained since elementary school, I have a plan – an outline, a mental map, or something – that I’m trying to follow. Other times, I just begin a piece and have an idea of where I want it to go. But usually, things do not end... Read more

2017-07-06T09:47:55-07:00

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To be Cantonese in a colonized church

Last updated on: July 6, 2017 at 9:47 am By Justin Tse

A few weeks ago, I was having pizza and beer with a group of people in Chicago who can perhaps be described as some of the intellectuals of the Greek-Catholic Church of Kyiv. A lot was said that I do not remember, but I do remember one of the things I said. For some reason, I was standing up either to get another slice or a refill on the beer, and as I was sitting down, I said, almost as... Read more

Ukrainian Greco-Catholic Church

uniatism

2017-07-05T16:33:28-07:00

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On my bad jook sing translation of the ‘air of righteousness’ (Cantonese, yi-hei 義氣)

Last updated on: July 5, 2017 at 4:33 pm By Justin Tse

In my last post, I sort of let the cat out of the bag on how I’ve been translating the term 義氣, which is pronounced yi-hei in Cantonese and yiqi in Mandarin. I have been calling it the air of righteousness, with ‘righteousness’ for 義 and ‘air’ for 氣. Yi-hei 義氣 refers to an essence of a person who is considered ‘righteous’ in a sort of Chinese martial tradition, expressed at least in South China in Cantonese street tales, opera, martial arts studios,... Read more

2017-07-04T22:20:03-07:00

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When I say that I am Cantonese, this is where I am and am not from

Last updated on: July 4, 2017 at 10:20 pm By Justin Tse

I remember the first time I crossed the Tsing Ma Bridge from Lantau Island. I had this feeling that I had been here – Hong Kong – before, but I hadn’t. All my life, I had grown up on the West Coast, first in the San Francisco Bay Area, then in Metro Vancouver. It wasn’t until I was 24 that I took my first trip to Asia. The problem is that I should have felt like a foreigner, but I did... Read more

2017-07-03T16:52:12-07:00

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Hong Kong, the city that I love, but not where I am from

Last updated on: July 3, 2017 at 4:52 pm By Justin Tse

Though I am not from Hong Kong, it has played a central role in informing my theological, political, and intellectual practice. At the end of this post, I’ll list some of my previous writing here and elsewhere online on Hong Kong. I have to write this boldfaced introduction because when I wrote this post, it was not clear until halfway through that an integral reflection on Hong Kong theologically, politically, and intellectually is what I’m after. This is a blog post,... Read more

one country two systems

Umbrella Movement

Xi Jinping

2017-07-02T21:57:03-07:00

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Wonderworker of the latter times

Last updated on: July 2, 2017 at 9:57 pm By Justin Tse

Over the weekend, folks at our temple in Richmond joined in the Orthodox celebration of the Holy Hierarch John Maximovitch of Shanghai and San Francisco the Wonderworker by adding his tropar, kondak, theotokion, prokeimen, and epistle reading to our Divine Liturgy. I have a hodgepodge of thoughts I want to get out about St John of Shanghai, possibly for further reflection and reworking in the future. Broadly speaking, they revolve around him being a wonderworker of the latter times, as he... Read more

St John of Shanghai and San Francisco

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2017-06-30T15:18:24-07:00

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Two pieces on the Trump Era

Last updated on: June 30, 2017 at 3:18 pm By Justin Tse

I’ve written two pieces on the Trump Era that I’ve published online outside of this blog. As some of my readers (and critics) will remember, I have also made my interest in the Trump Era very apparent on this blog, as it relates to the practice of ‘makrodiakonia,’ a Byzantine Christian way of understanding how the church can serve the world by challenging its structures of injustice. The two pieces are: ‘At least we know what evangelicalism is now’ – in... Read more

2017-06-29T13:08:09-07:00

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‘It’s how love works, man’

Last updated on: June 29, 2017 at 1:08 pm By Justin Tse

The day after my chrismation – on the proper feast day of Ss Peter and Paul – I was driving, and I had a sudden feeling that I needed to be a better husband. It wasn’t in reference to anything big; marriage, after all, is about the small things. But it was also the first sudden resolve of holiness I had after my chrismation, so I think it was a pretty big deal. I noticed that the gas was running dangerously low, so... Read more

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