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April 2019

April 26, 2019

Betrayal is not redemptive: for Great and Holy Thursday

One of the lines that struck me very deeply when I first heard it in...

April 21, 2019

Sundubu jjigae and the All-Night Vigil on Harvard Avenue: for Palm Sunday

Two Palm Sundays ago, I found myself in Boston for the annual geographers' conference. I...

March 2019

March 04, 2019

The place of the problematic: for the Sunday of the Last Judgment

For much of my life, I have felt that I have inhabited two separate worlds...

February 2019

February 17, 2019

Ego and the complicities of the Jesus Prayer: for the Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee

A wise monastic in our church said to me last year in a context outside...

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 30, 2019

The email about the poor among us: for the Venerable and Godbearing Anthony the Great in the Chicago cold

The email came in the middle of Reader's Vigil, right before the Matins Canon. Classes...

January 29, 2019

I am giving in to the pleasures of scholarship: on the falseness of neoliberal asceticism

There is a dimension to scholarship that is often left undiscussed in the present milieu...

January 11, 2019

The Catholic far-right’s fantasies of education: on the online mobbing of Stephen Lewis

As far as I understand it, there is currently a hubbub over at Franciscan University...

November 2018

November 11, 2018

‘Still love you’: revisiting the Cantonese Protestant dissertation in everyday life

Perhaps the scariest thing for a young scholar is to revisit the dissertation. It is...

September 2018

September 11, 2018

Writing with psychoanalysis, breaking the mirror (‘I give you three years to narrate yourself’ #5)

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

September 05, 2018

Blogging as hysteric confession (‘I give you three years to narrate yourself’ #1)

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

January 2018

January 14, 2018

The young bishops, the people’s theosis, and my academic praxis (for Zacchaeus Sunday)

For those of us on the New Calendar, Zacchaeus Sunday has come too soon. Just...

March 2017

March 16, 2017

I still believe in the streets of academia

This post was inspired by the convergence of three things that seemed to happen at...

March 11, 2017

The Blog in the Economia of Academic Writing

Yesterday, I had an illuminating conversation with a senior colleague who showed me something about...

July 2016

July 29, 2016

Does Being Catholic Change How I Write About Pope Francis?

I used to write about Pope Francis from the vantage point of a secular academic who...

November 2014

November 30, 2014

We’re Awake

Advent is upon us. In the Gospel text (Mark 13.24-37), Jesus instructs his disciples, 'Keep...

June 2013

June 12, 2013

Solutions for Asians in the property market? Give me a break.

Yesterday, the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC) covered a panel at Metro Vancouver's Simon Fraser University...

June 02, 2013

Yes, I’m a Chinglican Who Celebrates Corpus Christi

Today is Corpus Christi Sunday. The evangelical Anglican church that I attend probably doesn't care...

April 2013

April 09, 2013

Academic Love and the Critical Space of Academia

I want to write a quick response to Churl's post yesterday on love in academia. ...

February 2013

February 28, 2013

Talking with two abdicating academics

We are re-launching Religion Ethnicity Wired again today. That's right: the same day that the...

January 2013

January 25, 2013

Theological Education and the Public Pastor

On January 22, 2013, Barack Hussein Obama was inaugurated for a second term as President...

December 2012

December 04, 2012

A PhD Hermeneutic for a Few Pop Songs

Today is St. Francis Xavier Day, and in the spirit of engaging "the world" as...

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