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February 2019

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...

November 2018

November 30, 2018

‘Mary, what are you thinking about?’: on the Oranta of Kyiv and the Theotokos of Belz-Częstochowa (St Philip’s Fast #3)

I grew up evangelical. Things make sense to me in the theological register of evangelicalism,...

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 08, 2018

The spear against the shield: the fear of sex and icons in my Chinese Protestant childhood

The rediscovery of my Chineseness after my conversion to Eastern Catholicism, which seems to be...

September 2018

September 29, 2018

Sitting with the negations: for the Feast of the Exaltation and the beginning of the school year

The past Thursday was the Feast of the Universal Exaltation of the Holy and Life-giving...

August 2018

August 15, 2018

The kairos of the Dormition and the death of superstition

The Orthodox theologian John Panteleimon Manoussakis has a fascinating passage in his first book God After...

July 2018

July 04, 2018

The anti-orientalism of Asian American evangelicalism is far from complete: Eugene Cho, Eastern Orthodoxy, and ecclesial death

My dear friend, the Claremont ethicist Grace Kao, nominated me last week on facebook to...

February 2018

February 25, 2018

The triumph of the icons against the theological paranoia of men of integrity (for the Sunday of Orthodoxy – Great Fast #7)

The icon that hangs at the doorway of my home is the Theotokos of Iveron....

April 2017

April 03, 2017

There is nothing respectable about Eastern Christianity: a catechumen’s essay on Frederica Matthewes-Green’s Facing East

As I relive my catechumenate during this Great Fast, there's a piece that I want...

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 07, 2016

I’m getting my chrismation icons blessed!

I was chrismated on the Vigil of Ss Peter and Paul on June 28. It...

August 06, 2016

I was late to the Vigil of the Transfiguration, but I finally heard it

I was late to our temple's Vigil of the Transfiguration last night, which in our church's...

July 2016

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...

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