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February 2019

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...

November 2018

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

Social justice symphonia: on Holodomor for the Feast of St Josaphat of Polotsk

By Orthodox standards, the saint of the Kyivan Church, the Holy Hieromartyr Josaphat (Kuntsevych) of...

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...

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 06, 2017

‘Like a weaned child with its mother’: on the ideological nonchalance of doxology (Dormition Fast #5)

I told a rather prominent Anglican ecumenist recently that when I was an Anglican in...

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...

February 2017

February 26, 2017

An Eastern Catholic critique of the ecumenical Vancouver letter regarding Franklin Graham

The coming of the American evangelist Franklin Graham to headline the Festival of Hope in...

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...

May 2014

May 11, 2014

Why Don’t You Want to Build a Snowman?

When I gave the lecture on the Christian Right in my American Religion class, I...

May 31, 2013

Mary is yours, whether you are ‘catholic’ or ‘evangelical’

We call this a Thing, as Churl says, professing to have a meeting of the...

May 15, 2013

No, It Is Not Self-Referential

Addressing an Anglican conference at Holy Trinity Brompton yesterday, Friedrich Cardinal Schörborn declared that the...

May 08, 2013

What I Do Not Mean by the Catholic Thing

It has become a truism of late that some disaffected evangelicals want to become Catholic...

May 07, 2013

Passing the Peace to the Neo-Reformed Crowd

Jesus says in Sunday's Gospel reading: 'Peace I leave with you; my peace I give...

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 31, 2012

Dispatches from the War on Christmas 2012

I've heard an awful lot this Advent season and Christmas octave about keeping "Christ" in...

October 2012

October 31, 2012

A Day for Protestant Jokes

As CaptainThin pointed out, today is Reformation Day and All Hallows' Eve. I think it's...

May 2012

May 02, 2012

Anglophilic about Athanasius: a silent exodus reflection

Today is the Memorial of St. Athanasius of Alexandria. Accordingly, I decided to give his...

April 2012

April 07, 2012

God Is Dead

The T-shirt is tongue-in-cheek. God is dead, it reads that Nietzsche says. And as if...

February 2012

February 26, 2012

We Need a Feminist Theologian (Or Maybe We Don’t)

Today is the First Sunday of Lent, and I thought it might be a good...

February 14, 2012

A Catholic response to Driscoll-phobia

Mark Driscoll scares Churl here on A Christian Thing. In fact, Driscoll scares a lot...

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