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May 2019

May 14, 2019

The secular does not stop when your drive dies: mystagogy for Bright and Thomas Weeks

I was in Madison for Great and Holy Week because every year, the Association of...

March 2019

March 16, 2019

‘Vocatus atque non vocatus deus aderit’: Fr Myron Panchuk and the Kyivan Psychoanalysis Study Group

Last year at Pascha, I went with my sister and brother Summer and Julian, along...

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...

February 04, 2019

‘Unbow your head, sister’: working at womanism after Baldwin

Halfway into the film If Beale Street Could Talk, I said to myself: this is probably...

January 2019

January 20, 2019

The appearance of God in a time of post-truth fantasy: Kyivan reflections for Theophany 2019

The Tomos of autocephaly for the Orthodox Church in Ukraine came out from the Ecumenical...

January 01, 2019

I’m just another Chinese Christian: Eastern Catholic reflections for the secular New Year 2019

My sister Joanna, the one actually born of the same mother in the flesh as...

December 2018

December 31, 2018

Hong Kong borscht with beets restored: a recipe

I was around nine when the first Hong Kong tea café in the Fremont-Union City-Newark...

December 25, 2018

The humor of domestic mercy: for the Feast of the Holy Great-Martyr Eugenia at the end of St Philip’s Fast

The day that most people know as Christmas Eve is for us on the New...

December 02, 2018

Under her omophor: a brief note on the spirituality of the Chicago mission

Speaking of the prayer and social justice spirituality of our Chicago mission, our pastor in...

December 02, 2018

For Ukraine and for the peace of the world: our Chicago mission’s prayer services last week

Over the last week, our Chicago mission has been praying through the events in Ukraine...

December 01, 2018

‘Break your détente with death’: on Sinai Pantocrator and the Dormition (St Philip’s Fast #4)

I was having a think recently about whether the icons in my beautiful corner are...

November 2018

November 30, 2018

I had an Asian American evangelical uniate dream last night

Last night, I had the Asian American evangelical uniate dream to own them all. I...

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 25, 2018

From the Stepenni Hymns this morning, for such dangerous times as these

At Matins just this morning, parts of the first song of ascents were sung. In...

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...

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 30, 2018

‘That each musical note we emit may blossom into a stream of praise’ (on my Old Calendar baptismal anniversary)

On September 17, 1995, I was baptized by the hand of the Rev. James Ou...

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...

September 17, 2018

The competence of the laity: reflections on a summer of unofficial cantoring

Yesterday I served my last Sunday as the unofficial cantor until December at our temple...

September 14, 2018

The moral, the theological, and the political (Series Recap: ‘I give you three years to narrate yourself’)

Sam Rocha gave me three years to narrate myself on this blog, and I made...

September 13, 2018

Where there are people, there are politics, and I write about church politics (‘I give you three years to narrate yourself #7)

This is the seventh and final post in a series reflecting on what I've been...

September 09, 2018

Chinese Christianity is about heart: reflections on Faith’s chrismation

Today, we received my friend Faith by chrismation into our Eastern Catholic church. She took...

September 09, 2018

To be received as Eastern Catholic in Richmond, to be among the Lord’s inheritance (Sunday Before the Exaltation of the Cross)

On this Sunday Before the Exaltation of the Cross, our temple in Richmond will receive...

September 07, 2018

I am not a jook sing because I have a home and am Catholic (‘I give you three years to narrate yourself’ #3)

This is the third 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...

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 10, 2018

Asian American evangelicals, Eastern Catholics, and the question of uniatism

I don't know what it says about me that the most popular post around here...

July 03, 2018

A strange Eastern Catholic cantoring dream

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

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