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July 2019

July 22, 2019

The Bay Area of the nineties is where I’m from: reflections on Always Be My Maybe

My wife and I finally watched the new Netflix rom com Always Be My Maybe. Her reaction...

June 2019

June 10, 2019

This time, I have a tradition: on solidarity with the Hong Kong extradition protests in Chicago

I was holding my icon of the Holy Martyrs of China on my heart at...

April 2019

April 20, 2019

The death of a grandfather: on the raising of Lazarus from the dead

I was eleven when my grandpa died. He was not doing well when he did....

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...

October 2018

October 07, 2018

Stopped in at my spiritual home, reflected on the secular

I stopped home in Richmond for Liturgy. It is Canadian Thanksgiving weekend, and my dear...

September 2018

September 28, 2018

The fourth anniversary of the Umbrella Movement

Today is the day. Actually, I am a little late to post. But this is...

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 03, 2018

The Francis Ideology

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

December 2017

December 17, 2017

The Umbrella Movement exacerbated my mental tension between the ‘politics of the parish’ and the primal personal (My conversion to liberation theology #5)

This is the fifth in a series of posts testifying about my conversion to liberation theology....

September 2017

September 29, 2017

Grounding theologies: owning my personhood three years out from the Umbrella Movement

A day after the Umbrella Movement began on 28 September 2014, I sat down to...

August 2017

August 08, 2017

‘More Catholic than the Catholics’: a tale of transfiguration (Dormition Fast #6)

By the time I was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Washington, I thought...

July 2017

July 21, 2017

Richard Mouw and the Chinese church

At least among the friends I keep, the piece that the Reformed evangelical theologian Richard...

July 04, 2017

When I say that I am Cantonese, this is where I am and am not from

I remember the first time I crossed the Tsing Ma Bridge from Lantau Island. I had...

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...

March 2017

March 27, 2017

Why I Blog (Part 5): joining the public blogosophere as Chinglican and Religion Ethnicity Wired

This is the fifth post in a series on why I blog with no authority....

March 25, 2017

Why I Blog (Part 4): Vox Nova in Hong Kong

This is the fourth post in a series on why I blog with no authority....

March 08, 2017

Why I Blog (Part 1)

Over the weekend, I was told several times by several people from different circles with...

January 2017

January 20, 2017

I’m just being a stereotypically boring academic today #Inauguration2017

There is a post for which I got a good deal of flak that I...

August 2016

August 05, 2016

Reading Cardinal Tong amidst rumors of a China-Vatican deal

There's an 8,000 word piece that just landed in Hong Kong's Catholic newspaper, the Kung Kao...

August 04, 2016

REPOST: Only Useful Idiots Would Say That Cardinal Zen Is Calling for Schism

NOTE: This post originally appeared on Artur Rosman's blog on 7 July 2016. For some...

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...

December 2014

December 31, 2014

I really thought I didn’t do China studies until 2014

If New Year's Eve is a time to take stock of what went down in...

September 2014

September 30, 2014

If you are not informed about Vancouver solidarity, don’t comment. #HongKongProtests

Last night, I attended the solidarity protest at Vancouver's Chinese Consulate organized by the Vancouver...

September 29, 2014

It has always been the students – and the clergy — and Catholic social teaching #HongKongProtests

I've been blogging plenty lately about the recent occupation of Hong Kong. As the movement...

September 28, 2014

The World Is Watching. #OccupyCentral #HongKong

I once wrote on Facebook that if the government cracks down on nonviolent protesters in...

September 28, 2014

Cascadian Privates and Occupy Central

I've just gotten done with a conference called Christ and Cascadia. Just this morning, Pacific...

August 2014

August 29, 2014

EXAM REVIEW: Hong Kong’s Occupy Central with Love and Peace

Things are heating up over there in Hong Kong over the movement known as Occupy...

July 2014

July 16, 2014

Should Asian Americans/Canadians care about Hong Kong? Part 3: What’s Political Agency For?

You can follow earlier installations of this series in the following posts: Part 1: The...

July 14, 2014

Should Asian Americans/Canadians care about Hong Kong? Part 1: The Preschool Answer

Previously, I've posted on Taiwan's student movement, Hong Kong's Occupy Central movement, and the Tiananmen...

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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