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March 2019

March 29, 2019

Psychic connections are neither here nor there: on Susan Howatch and spiritual direction

I first got the idea that I should receive spiritual direction around the time I...

March 06, 2019

The morality of the closet: for Cheesefare Week after the Latins’ Ash Wednesday

For those who are among the cheeky in the Latin Church, Ash Wednesday is what...

March 02, 2019

The truth is, I didn’t know them as well as I should have: for the Saturday of the Dead

I was a freshman in high school when my friend Sean died. He was the...

November 2018

November 30, 2018

‘Mary, what are you thinking about?’: on the Oranta of Kyiv and the Theotokos of Belz-Częstochowa (St Philip’s Fast #3)

I grew up evangelical. Things make sense to me in the theological register of evangelicalism,...

November 28, 2018

‘…that I may carry out your holy and true command’: on the San Damiano Cross and the theologia crucis (St Philip’s Fast #1)

I was having a conversation recently with a Korean American friend of mine who finds...

October 2018

October 23, 2018

The only thing in crisis is the liberal world religions version of Orthodoxy: on Moscow, Constantinople, and Chinatown

In light of the bluster of the Moscow Patriarchate in its claim that its full...

September 2018

September 30, 2018

‘That each musical note we emit may blossom into a stream of praise’ (on my Old Calendar baptismal anniversary)

On September 17, 1995, I was baptized by the hand of the Rev. James Ou...

September 19, 2018

‘Boys will be boys’ and the secularization of the church’s problems: reflections on Anita Hill and Christine Blasey Ford

I was about five years old when I learned the term sexual harassment. It thoroughly confused...

September 18, 2018

The long-form email, redeemed as letter

At least for me, an easy misunderstanding of the literary theorist Michael Warner's first book, The...

September 10, 2018

Liberation theology taught me the meaning of community is to treasure my brothers more than my fathers (‘I give you three years to narrate yourself’ #4)

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

September 07, 2018

I am not a jook sing because I have a home and am Catholic (‘I give you three years to narrate yourself’ #3)

This is the third 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...

September 03, 2018

The Francis Ideology

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

July 2018

July 25, 2018

The pop psychoanalysis posse and the popular culture of Ida

The following post contains spoilers for the film Ida. On the occasion of my birthday...

July 10, 2018

Asian American evangelicals, Eastern Catholics, and the question of uniatism

I don't know what it says about me that the most popular post around here...

June 2018

June 04, 2018

The Wound of History

In my first childhood memory, I am standing by the fireplace. It's made of brick,...

October 2017

October 31, 2017

Luther and me: thoughts for Reformation Day on its 500th anniversary

I remember the first time I learned about Martin Luther. My dad came home after...

August 2017

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...

June 2017

June 29, 2017

‘It’s how love works, man’

The day after my chrismation - on the proper feast day of Ss Peter and...

April 2017

April 15, 2017

Into the depths: reflections on a catechumenate relived

Great and Holy Saturday is upon us. The Great Fast has been over for a...

March 2017

March 02, 2017

Against the Franklin Graham blackmail

I am starting to feel like writing about the slow-moving trainwreck that is the imminent...

December 2016

December 16, 2016

By participating in the Umbrella Movement, the Eastern Catholic Church’s gutsyness inspired Vancouver’s younger Chinese evangelicals

In my last post on first encountering a Chinese Canadian Eastern Catholic Jesuit priest at...

August 2016

August 19, 2016

Most Holy Theotokos, save us (Catholicity: Identity and Its Discontents)

This is the first post on my blog to mention the forum 'Catholicity: Identity and...

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...

July 21, 2016

ADDENDUM: stuff I remember reading in Catholic high school

This is an addendum post to the third post in a blog series tentatively titled (pending a...

July 21, 2016

Catholic school contorted my ‘conservatism’ because we had to read closely

This is the third post in a blog series tentatively titled (pending a better title)...

November 2015

November 01, 2015

The Subject of the Big Jesuit Plot

I've recently begun seeing a Jesuit spiritual director. In light of the big Catholic Twitter...

March 2015

March 05, 2015

End the Death Penalty

Even though I am not Catholic, I am joining with the joint editorials in the...

August 2014

August 16, 2014

Assumptions

Hit play first. Then read. The news cycle this week has been nuts. From the...

July 2014

July 08, 2014

Chinglicans in Communion: in defence of Occupy Central with Love and Peace

It has come to my attention that I need to respond to Archbishop Paul Kwong's recent...

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