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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...

April 24, 2019

A child in Kassiani’s garden: for Great and Holy Wednesday

When I was about four, I once said to my elderly babysitter that my mom...

April 22, 2019

Teaching Genesis: for Great and Holy Monday

If there is a text by which my teaching career has been defined, it is...

March 2019

March 11, 2019

The death of the father: for Forgiveness Sunday

I was just sitting down at an intentional Christian community's arts sharing night when I...

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...

January 2019

January 24, 2019

North by Northwest at Northwestern: on the Catholic gaze

About a month ago, I finally got around to watching the classic Hitchcock film North by...

December 2018

December 22, 2018

Friendship is a material thing: on not finishing my icon corner series

As St Philip's Fast draws to a close, I am beginning to accept that I...

December 04, 2018

‘Out of the fish’s belly’: on the Holy Prophets Moses, Elias, Jonah, and the Forerunner John (St Philip’s Fast #6)

Back when I was an evangelical, a number of my sisters and brothers would refer...

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 23, 2018

‘Glory to God in all things’: forthcoming mystagogical reflections on the postsecular

Last night, on the eve of Thanksgiving, I prayed the Akathist of Thanksgiving, Glory to...

October 2018

October 09, 2018

Theology is the exegesis of love (for the repose of Holy John the Theologian)

I have long reflected on why, mysteriously, the Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian...

September 2018

September 08, 2018

My wife is not ‘my Virgin Mary’ (Nativity of the Theotokos)

What do I say about Mary Godbearer on this Feast of her Nativity, the first...

September 04, 2018

Another cantoring dream – quilting Greek chant, hipster evangelicalism, and the Anglican realignment

The thing I remember about the beginning of this dream was that it was a...

July 2018

July 27, 2018

On my extended adolescence in differentiating from evangelicalism

My spiritual father read my daddy issues post yesterday and began watching Hillsong videos. He...

July 22, 2018

I had another cantoring nightmare last night

The dream started like any other cantoring dream. I was in front, at the temple,...

July 03, 2018

A strange Eastern Catholic cantoring dream

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

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

Mission Day #1: A Divine Love That Brings Joy

When You had fulfilled Your plan for us and united things on earth with those...

May 17, 2018

The Mission Days of the Kyivan Church

Patriarch Sviatoslav has issued an invitation. The Greek-Catholic Church of Kyiv, also known as the...

February 2018

February 23, 2018

Billy, Bob, Dick, Mark, Tom, and me (Great Fast #5)

My Clean Week has been occupied by dirty politics. The preceding posts have been on...

January 2018

January 14, 2018

The young bishops, the people’s theosis, and my academic praxis (for Zacchaeus Sunday)

For those of us on the New Calendar, Zacchaeus Sunday has come too soon. Just...

December 2017

December 29, 2017

To work on fantasy

When I was five, I had a nightmare. My parents rushed into the room because I was...

December 25, 2017

On ‘Mary, Did You Know?’

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

August 2017

August 09, 2017

‘Theologos, save us?! Whaaat?’: through the prayers of the Theotokos (Dormition Fast #7)

Recently, I was at an evangelical Protestant college event as a workshop speaker, and as...

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 24, 2016

Taking the secret of the Nativity everywhere with the portable icon I got at my chrismation

A Byzantine priest told me recently that Nativity is not as great of a feast...

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...

February 2015

February 09, 2015

Nobody expects Reinhold Niebuhr

It seems that there has been a bit of a Reinhold Niebuhr renaissance. It began...

August 2014

August 28, 2014

In praise of Vicky Beeching, evangelical Anglican (Part 2)

In the spirit of more ancient texts that Churl will appreciate more than the average...

August 23, 2014

In praise of Vicky Beeching, evangelical Anglican (Part 1)

This post was inspired by evangelical Anglican theologian and worship leader Vicky Beeching's coming out...

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