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May 2019

May 24, 2019

Home is where your food is: a speech for JubilAsian 2019 (APIDA Heritage Month)

Every year, in the month of May, the Multicultural Student Affairs' office at Northwestern puts...

May 11, 2019

Patriyarkhat: ‘Attending to the movements of my heart’

It's out in English! Greek Catholic theological reflections as Asian American theology! The magazine Часопис Патріярхат,...

May 10, 2019

I’m flattered to be named an Asian American theologian

A student messaged me about a month ago to tell me that she had read...

February 2019

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...

February 10, 2019

Model minority repentance: for Zacchaeus Sunday

The first thing I learned about Zacchaeus when I was in Sunday school was that...

November 2018

November 30, 2018

I had an Asian American evangelical uniate dream last night

Last night, I had the Asian American evangelical uniate dream to own them all. I...

October 2018

October 28, 2018

Flower Drum Song is probably the most uniate film I’ve ever seen

Tonight, in a fit of course preparation for my Chinese American studies course, I finally...

October 01, 2018

Back to Asian American basics

Today was my first day back on the job teaching. The quarter officially started on...

September 2018

September 17, 2018

The competence of the laity: reflections on a summer of unofficial cantoring

Yesterday I served my last Sunday as the unofficial cantor until December at our temple...

September 12, 2018

Cantoring, cinematic transference, and chastity (‘I give you three years to narrate yourself’ #6)

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

September 06, 2018

My Asian American evangelical oedipal complex (‘I give you three years to narrate yourself’ #2)

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

September 03, 2018

The Francis Ideology

Years ago, my friend Sam Rocha wrote a piece on the then-newly elected Pope Francis...

February 2018

February 28, 2018

Fremont, the site of my first major intellectual mistake (Great Fast #10)

Last weekend in the Bay Area, I was talking to one of my earliest students...

December 2017

December 14, 2017

To have been so right, and yet so wrong, about the private consensus (My conversion to liberation theology #3)

This is the third in a series of posts testifying about my conversion to liberation theology....

August 2017

August 28, 2017

Race and the passions: musings on the Feast of St Moses the Black, St Augustine of Hippo, and Blessed Gebremichael

Today on the Newer Calendar of the Kyivan Church, we commemorate three African saints: our...

August 11, 2017

The private consensus is unraveling (Dormition Fast #10)

In 2013, in the year of the election of Jorge Mario Cardinal Bergoglio SJ as Pope...

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 09, 2017

Sam Rocha told me something beautiful

Sam Rocha told me recently that I am not a geographer. You are a geometer, he...

July 06, 2017

To be Cantonese in a colonized church

A few weeks ago, I was having pizza and beer with a group of people...

March 2017

March 08, 2017

I went to a student recital, and the intensity of the music-making destroyed any notion that classical music is about the model minority

It is to the credit of two Northwestern freshmen's social media skills that I ended...

March 08, 2017

Why I Blog (Part 2): I used to have no sense of the public sphere

This is the second part in a series of posts about why I blog with...

March 08, 2017

Why I Blog (Part 1)

Over the weekend, I was told several times by several people from different circles with...

August 2014

August 28, 2014

Sam Rocha: Love always comes too late.

Let me tell you about my friend Sam Rocha. He has a stellar soul/jazz album...

August 21, 2014

The black church taught our family the meaning of han. #Ferguson

This is a post about the private consensus. I'm finally going to say something about...

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...

July 2014

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 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...

March 2014

March 30, 2014

An Open Letter Theology, Part 1: Marian solidarity and Asian American ecumenism

I am writing this post for two reasons. The first is to begin a series...

December 2013

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...

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