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May 2019

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,...

April 2019

April 28, 2019

The meat of Pascha: theological commentary on the resurrection

Pascha, I often joke, is the first day after the Great Fast and Great and...

March 2019

March 02, 2019

By the waters of Babylon: the Sunday of the Prodigal among the Chinese Christian diaspora

At Matins on the Sunday of the Prodigal, we begin to sing 'By the Waters...

February 2019

February 28, 2019

To sing the world in a career: on Asian American poetry slowly finding me

Recently, I was at a talk given by the poetry professor Timothy Yu, and while...

February 06, 2019

Oikoumēnē is not ekklesia: my conversion from evangelical ecclesiology

As I've been working through much of my old work on Cantonese Protestants and getting...

February 01, 2019

A face faced by others: for the Venerable Macarius the Great of Egypt

One of the murmurings of discontent that has long followed me from critics of this...

January 2019

January 22, 2019

‘I call you to teach’: my first Theophany

As this postfeast of Theophany this year continues apace, I recall my first Theophany celebration,...

January 20, 2019

The appearance of God in a time of post-truth fantasy: Kyivan reflections for Theophany 2019

The Tomos of autocephaly for the Orthodox Church in Ukraine came out from the Ecumenical...

January 16, 2019

‘I’ll light a candle for you’: for the Venerable Genevieve of Paris

My wife's name day falls on the commemoration of the Venerable Genevieve of Paris. My...

January 01, 2019

I’m just another Chinese Christian: Eastern Catholic reflections for the secular New Year 2019

My sister Joanna, the one actually born of the same mother in the flesh as...

December 2018

December 31, 2018

‘Clearly green light, turn eye became red light’: non-uniate loving as a secret ‘honger’ (for the Eve of the Circumcision and the Feast of the Holy Hierarch Basil)

I was having Hong Kong breakfast with my newly chrismated Hongkonger neophyte friends in Richmond over...

December 31, 2018

Hong Kong borscht with beets restored: a recipe

I was around nine when the first Hong Kong tea café in the Fremont-Union City-Newark...

December 05, 2018

Living between theology and religious studies: on the Holy Apostle Thomas and the Holy Apostle Jude (St Philip’s Fast #8)

I received a package of icons that I ordered when I was first setting up...

December 04, 2018

‘You will pray even in Spanish and Chinese’: on the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul (St Philip’s Fast #7)

When I announced to my friends that I was getting chrismated in the Kyivan Church...

November 2018

November 29, 2018

‘Come, the table is prepared; come, join the feast’: on Rublev’s Trinity as the Hospitality of Abraham (St Philip’s Fast #2)

My friend Abraham used to bake cranberry bread for communion at an evangelical church that...

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...

November 25, 2018

From the Stepenni Hymns this morning, for such dangerous times as these

At Matins just this morning, parts of the first song of ascents were sung. In...

September 2018

September 09, 2018

Chinese Christianity is about heart: reflections on Faith’s chrismation

Today, we received my friend Faith by chrismation into our Eastern Catholic church. She took...

September 03, 2018

The Francis Ideology

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

August 2018

August 24, 2018

Writing to clarity on the abuse crisis in the Latin Church

Over the past week or so, I've been trying to work through what I think...

July 2018

July 17, 2018

Ideological promiscuity in two material gifts: reflections on the Feast of Holy Volodymyr Equal-to-the-Apostles

On Sunday, we celebrated the Feast of the Holy Grand Prince of Rus' Volodymyr Equal-to-the-Apostles...

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...

July 03, 2018

A strange Eastern Catholic cantoring dream

Last night I had the strangest of dreams. The scene begins with our temple...

June 2018

June 29, 2018

Intellectual renewal among the people of God: reflections for Ss Peter and Paul on the second anniversary of my reception into the Kyivan Church

I will always remember the moment I was received into the Kyivan Church. After I...

May 2018

May 29, 2018

Repenting of the postmodern politics of the pure heart

Sister Vassa (Larin) has begun a podcast series on Psalm 50. When I was a...

May 18, 2018

If I were in the Latin Church, I’d be pretentious af (Album Challenge #6)

I am not in the Latin Church because I would be pretentious af. I cannot...

March 2018

March 31, 2018

PASCHA [New Calendar]: Richmond Eastern Catholic Church, 31 March, 10:30 pm

Arise, O G-d, and judge the earth, for to you belong all the nations! In...

March 11, 2018

RICHMOND: Great Canon of St Andrew of Crete, Wed, 14 Mar, 7 pm

For those in Richmond/Vancouver: Our temple will be having the Great Canon of St Andrew...

February 2018

February 20, 2018

The feeling behind ‘the kids are all Democrats’ (Great Fast #2)

I read yet another hot take on how Trump is destroying Republicanism and how most...

January 2018

January 07, 2018

From Richmond to Evanston, Christ is among us – for Christ is baptized!

Today, I went straight from liturgy to the airport. I live between two suburbs, Richmond...

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