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April 2019

April 21, 2019

Sundubu jjigae and the All-Night Vigil on Harvard Avenue: for Palm Sunday

Two Palm Sundays ago, I found myself in Boston for the annual geographers' conference. I...

March 2019

March 27, 2019

Fiat mihi secundum verbum tuum: on the crisis of my Annunciation spirituality

I write these thoughts on the occasion of the Feast of the Annunciation on the...

January 2019

January 15, 2019

Ubi caritas et amor, Deus ibi est: working reflections on the problematic in the postsecular wasteland (for St Sylvester’s Day)

To me, the theology of the Latin Church is encapsulated by the dictum, Ubi caritas et...

December 2018

December 04, 2018

‘You will pray even in Spanish and Chinese’: on the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul (St Philip’s Fast #7)

When I announced to my friends that I was getting chrismated in the Kyivan Church...

September 2018

September 19, 2018

‘Boys will be boys’ and the secularization of the church’s problems: reflections on Anita Hill and Christine Blasey Ford

I was about five years old when I learned the term sexual harassment. It thoroughly confused...

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 03, 2018

The Francis Ideology

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

September 01, 2018

Augustine, #MeToo, and the church

On October 16, 2017, I shared some words on my Facebook regarding the #MeToo 'movement,'...

August 2018

August 24, 2018

Writing to clarity on the abuse crisis in the Latin Church

Over the past week or so, I've been trying to work through what I think...

August 20, 2018

It’s only as good as we practice it: clarifying my Greek Catholic thoughts on the sex abuse crisis

An Eastern Catholic writing colleague of mine wrote after my post last week on the...

August 16, 2018

Nothing surprises me anymore – until it does: reflections on the Pennsylvania grand jury report and bishops’ conferences

As I read the grand jury report from Pennsylvania on the sex crimes of priests...

July 2018

July 26, 2018

‘Call no man father’: daddy issues and the church

It is occasionally offensive to me, when I am in a Big Mood state, to...

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 17, 2018

Ascension and the perfection of ‘all light, all face, all eye’

I was out with a friend who worships and works in the Latin Church last...

March 2018

March 02, 2018

Rebuild my church (Great Fast #12)

Whenever I play hooky from my home Kyivan Church and hang out with the Latins...

December 2017

December 27, 2017

Illich and Ilyich (My conversion to liberation theology #12)

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

December 25, 2017

On ‘Mary, Did You Know?’

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

November 2017

November 01, 2017

Metropolitan Andrey’s Prayer for Divine Wisdom

The Latin Church celebrates the Feast of All Saints today, so Eugenia Geisel very appropriately...

October 2017

October 04, 2017

Abba Francis

Today on the New Calendar is the Feast of Our Venerable Father among the Saints...

August 2017

August 15, 2017

The assumption of the people (Dormition Fast #14)

Recently, a priest of the Latin Church impressed on me the significance for the West...

August 12, 2017

The children of the New Eve have lost their innocence (Dormition Fast #11)

Once, when I was eleven, my mother picked me up from school during lunch. I...

August 04, 2017

Being afraid of the Theotokos as Catholic, charismatic, carnal (Dormition Fast #3)

I attended a school run by an Assemblies of God church in Fremont, California, from...

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...

April 2017

April 12, 2017

The face of the Bridegroom in the Gospels

One of the moments when I knew that I had to become Catholic was when...

September 2016

September 06, 2016

The Missionaries of Charity almost made me miss a flight once because they caused a little explosion of love in my heart

Two days ago, the Latin Church canonized Mother Teresa of Calcutta. As usual, I am late...

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