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2017-03-27T09:28:18-07:00

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Why I Blog (Part 5): joining the public blogosophere as Chinglican and Religion Ethnicity Wired

Last updated on: March 27, 2017 at 9:28 am By Justin Tse

This is the fifth post in a series on why I blog with no authority. Previous posts include the first post explaining why I needed to write this series, a second post on how I started out blogging without any concept of what the public sphere was, a third post about being my alter-ego called Chinglican, and a fourth post about reflecting on Catholic social teaching with the democracy movement before the Umbrella Movement was ever in the works. About a year into writing... Read more

Religion Ethnicity Wired

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2017-03-26T10:52:41-07:00

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‘When you think you’re there, that’s when you fall’

Last updated on: March 26, 2017 at 10:52 am By Justin Tse

One of the most memorable things for me at the beginning of this Great Fast was attending Forgiveness Vespers at the Orthodox Church in America (OCA) cathedral in Chicago. The community there is so intimate that some even remembered seeing me around for some of the other feasts; this is because the OCA cathedral is perhaps the most accessible place that I know by public transit to attend some of the feasts. As vespers ended, the bishop transitioned to the... Read more

2017-03-25T23:00:24-07:00

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Reliving my catechumenate while writing about Protestants

Last updated on: March 25, 2017 at 11:00 pm By Justin Tse

I had an inkling as I went into this year’s Great Fast that things were going to be interesting. Last year, my spiritual father had explained to our temple that the origins of the Great Fast lay in the catechumenate, the people who were being taught so that they could join the Church. I was the only catechumen at the temple, so it was particularly meaningful to me. It turns out that the Great Fast started out as a catechumens’... Read more

2017-03-25T22:06:16-07:00

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Why I Blog (Part 4): Vox Nova in Hong Kong

Last updated on: March 25, 2017 at 10:06 pm By Justin Tse

This is the fourth post in a series on why I blog with no authority. Previous posts include the first post explaining why I needed to write this series, a second post on how I started out blogging without any concept of what the public sphere was, and a third post about being my alter-ego called Chinglican. This really should have been a post that should be about the Hong Kong election that happened today in which Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor was... Read more

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2017-03-25T11:18:54-07:00

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The Theotokos came to me through the Word #Annunciation

Last updated on: March 25, 2017 at 11:18 am By Justin Tse

When I was an evangelical, one of the things that everyone kept harping about when conducting Bible studies or preaching or other forms of Christian education was that we had to apply the Bible to our lives. In time, I will perhaps blog more about this, especially when this came to a head when I was in college and I met people who were obsessed with Bill Gothard’s Institute for Biblical Life Principles. On this Feast of the Annunciation, I... Read more

2017-03-16T15:04:26-07:00

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I still believe in the streets of academia

Last updated on: March 16, 2017 at 3:04 pm By Justin Tse

This post was inspired by the convergence of three things that seemed to happen at the same time on social media, which for me is real life as far as the academy is concerned: the open letter from Professors Robert P. George and Cornel West on ‘Truth Seeking, Democracy, and Freedom of Thought and Expression’ regarding the events at Middlebury College (I signed the letter), a spirited debate about the relevance of the academy triggered by an article on The Conversation... Read more

2017-03-16T00:17:50-07:00

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Sloth is not hesychasm

Last updated on: March 16, 2017 at 12:17 am By Justin Tse

Because those of us in the Byzantine churches practice the Prayer of Holy Ephrem the Syrian both in our daily prayers and in the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts, we are accustomed to asking the Lord and Master of our lives to drive from us the spirit of indifference, despair, lust for power, and idle chatter, as is the translation that we in the Greek-Catholic Church of Kyiv usually use according to our Divine Liturgy: An Anthology for Worship. But indifference, I... Read more

Prayer of St Ephrem the Syrian

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2017-03-12T20:34:11-07:00

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

Last updated on: March 12, 2017 at 8:34 pm By Justin Tse

I feel like I have been basking in the Uncreated Light of Tabor on this Sunday of Holy Gregory Palamas. It’s been a rather charismatic day for me: when I took communion today, I felt a deep sense of G-d’s presence within me, and it reminded me a lot of the charismatic moments that permeated my life even before I became Eastern Catholic. Spending the day re-reading part of Palamas’s Triads, I found even more surprising insights about hesychasm and the... Read more

2017-03-12T10:30:14-07:00

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I am a terrible hesychast

Last updated on: March 12, 2017 at 10:30 am By Justin Tse

The Great Fast is supposed to be a yearly revisitation of one’s catechumenate, and it is more than fair to say that I am revisiting mine. It was, after all, during the Great Fast of my catechumenate that I finally stopped being unserious about my possible conversion and got serious. Much of this was because of my attendance during that Great Fast of the Great Canon of St Andrew of Crete, during which the life of St Mary of Egypt... Read more

2017-03-12T16:23:06-07:00

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Hesychasm is about the body

Last updated on: March 12, 2017 at 4:23 pm By Justin Tse

In the Byzantine churches, today is the Sunday of Holy Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessaloniki in the fourteenth century. Among many things, Palamas is often seen as the guy who centered for the Byzantine churches the practice of hesychasm, the stilling of the heart as the intellect (Greek nous) enters into the heart through the negative repetition of the Jesus Prayer to meet with G-d there. Popularly speaking, what seems to mark a conventional conception of hesychasm is that it’s a negative tradition... Read more

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