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January 2018

January 06, 2018

Theophany at the Chinese mission of the Kyivan Church in Richmond

There is nowhere on earth like the Chinese mission of the Kyivan Church, the place...

December 2017

December 25, 2017

On ‘Mary, Did You Know?’

I remember the first time I heard 'Mary, Did You Know?' It was at a concert...

December 12, 2017

My conversion to liberation theology

I was telling a colleague recently that it is a little bit funny that my...

November 2017

November 01, 2017

Metropolitan Andrey’s Prayer for Divine Wisdom

The Latin Church celebrates the Feast of All Saints today, so Eugenia Geisel very appropriately...

October 2017

October 04, 2017

Abba Francis

Today on the New Calendar is the Feast of Our Venerable Father among the Saints...

August 2017

August 15, 2017

The theology of the Dormition (Dormition Fast #15/Dormition Feast)

I started this blog right before the Dormition Fast last year. Because of that, I announced...

July 2017

July 26, 2017

Being Eastern Catholic, writing about evangelicals

I am Eastern Catholic, and I have spent the last week writing about the Protestant...

July 24, 2017

As one adopted into the Church of Kyiv

The first time that I ever stepped foot in an Eastern Catholic temple was for...

July 08, 2017

LAST WEEK’S SERIES: being Cantonese in the church’s service of liberation to the world

On Monday, I wrote a post on Hong Kong, and I was frustrated. Perhaps the uneasiness...

July 03, 2017

Hong Kong, the city that I love, but not where I am from

Though I am not from Hong Kong, it has played a central role in informing...

June 2017

June 24, 2017

I’m back

This is my first post in over two months. With it, I'm happy to say...

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...

January 2017

January 08, 2017

‘Catholics on the Eastside, we gotta stick together’

Yesterday, after posting my 3,744-too-many-words on the autonomy of Eastern Catholics in response to Chase...

January 07, 2017

Practicing ‘autonomy’ with Eastern Catholics: a response to Chase Padusniak

Chase Padusniak has done it again with another hit piece. This time, he's written a primer...

January 05, 2017

Theophany with the Orthodox in the cold

I'm sitting in a coffee shop in Chicago's Old Town waiting for the Vigil for...

December 2016

December 24, 2016

Nativity 2016: God is with us! Understand, all you nations, and submit yourselves, for God is with us!

They say that 2016 was a pretty terrible year, and they (whoever 'they' are) seem to...

December 23, 2016

Late for an Umbrella Movement retreat, I learned makrodiakonia as the art of political discernment by accidentally walking through the deacon door

Shortly after the clergy prayer meeting that I wrote about in my last post, the...

December 12, 2016

Ms Lauryn Hill, the theologian I finally heard

Around late August last year, I was scrolling through my news feed when I saw...

October 2016

October 13, 2016

I haven’t written for a while, I want to write about the elections, I have nothing to say to the multitude, I’m going to put my new chotki to use

I have not written for a while, and I suspect that some might be glad...

August 2016

August 17, 2016

Help the Byzantine monks to burn the mortgage!

On Byzantine internet, there is an appeal that is going around that is well worth...

August 10, 2016

A retraction to my students, some clarifications, a bit of fun, and a hearty introduction

I've been quite quiet on the blog for the last few days because I've been...

August 03, 2016

A Note from My Editor, Sam Rocha

My editor here at Patheos Catholic, Sam Rocha, has a note for all of you...

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 28, 2016

The Black Madonna loved me into Eastern Catholicism

Some people have asked me to craft some of my reflections about why I joined...

July 26, 2016

I’m a person on Patheos!

I'm on Patheos! It is a bit strange to say that, but here I am,...

August 2015

August 21, 2015

To Josh Duggar, from a secular academic, on staying Christian

Dear Josh, We do not know each other, but as part of the reading and...

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