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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...

December 2018

December 29, 2018

The return of the Mother of Sheshan to my prayer: late reflections for Nativity and the Synaxis of the Theotokos 2018

Atop the Basilica of Our Lady Help of Christians on Sheshan Hill in Shanghai stands...

October 2018

October 14, 2018

Oscar Romero, the scholarship of everyday life, and the omophor of Pokrov for the civilization of love

These are my reflections on the canonization of Archbishop Oscar Romero in our sister Latin...

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...

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...

August 22, 2017

SERIES: Reflections on the Most Holy Theotokos and her Dormition

Over the duration of the Dormition Fast on the New Calendar (August 1-15), I wrote...

August 15, 2017

The theology of the Dormition (Dormition Fast #15/Dormition Feast)

I started this blog right before the Dormition Fast last year. Because of that, I announced...

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...

August 02, 2017

‘I see the Blessed Virgin standing next to you’ (Dormition Fast #2)

A few years ago, when I was very single, I used to see a Filipina...

July 2017

July 31, 2017

Dormition posts on the Theotokos

The Dormition Fast begins tomorrow. I figure that with all this stuff I've been writing...

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...

April 2015

April 15, 2015

‘A Specific “Geography” of Faith’

I'm preparing to go to a few conferences next week. While preparing, I stumbled on...

November 2014

November 30, 2014

We’re Awake

Advent is upon us. In the Gospel text (Mark 13.24-37), Jesus instructs his disciples, 'Keep...

August 2014

August 16, 2014

Assumptions

Hit play first. Then read. The news cycle this week has been nuts. From the...

June 2014

June 24, 2014

Chinglican Christianity: Mother of God, Pray for Us

From what I can tell, Alastair Sterne is one cautious spiritual practitioner. His response to...

March 2014

March 30, 2014

An Open Letter Theology, Part 1: Marian solidarity and Asian American ecumenism

I am writing this post for two reasons. The first is to begin a series...

September 2013

September 07, 2013

Let Us Pray (for Syria)

Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your people, and kindle in them the fire...

May 2013

May 31, 2013

Mary is yours, whether you are ‘catholic’ or ‘evangelical’

We call this a Thing, as Churl says, professing to have a meeting of the...

May 08, 2013

What I Do Not Mean by the Catholic Thing

It has become a truism of late that some disaffected evangelicals want to become Catholic...

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