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April 2019

April 24, 2019

A child in Kassiani’s garden: for Great and Holy Wednesday

When I was about four, I once said to my elderly babysitter that my mom...

March 2019

March 18, 2019

‘They are us’: on having no words on Christchurch, Ethiopian Airlines, and the ecological crisis

I have been at a loss for words about the deaths of so many in...

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 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...

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 16, 2019

‘I’ll light a candle for you’: for the Venerable Genevieve of Paris

My wife's name day falls on the commemoration of the Venerable Genevieve of Paris. My...

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 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 23, 2018

The only thing in crisis is the liberal world religions version of Orthodoxy: on Moscow, Constantinople, and Chinatown

In light of the bluster of the Moscow Patriarchate in its claim that its full...

October 12, 2018

One of my bishops on the question of Ukrainian autocephaly and the Greek Catholic Church

My view of my church, the Greek-Catholic Church of Kyiv, may seem radical to those...

October 11, 2018

Ukrainian autocephaly is vindication for those who read

Today is a great day. As Constantinople announces that it will indeed grant autocephaly to...

August 2018

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...

July 2018

July 17, 2018

Ideological promiscuity in two material gifts: reflections on the Feast of Holy Volodymyr Equal-to-the-Apostles

On Sunday, we celebrated the Feast of the Holy Grand Prince of Rus' Volodymyr Equal-to-the-Apostles...

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...

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...

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 30, 2017

Writing as a convert

There has been a little bit of a dust-up in the Latin Church recently about converts...

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...

April 2017

April 15, 2017

Into the depths: reflections on a catechumenate relived

Great and Holy Saturday is upon us. The Great Fast has been over for a...

March 2017

March 15, 2017

Sloth is not hesychasm

Because those of us in the Byzantine churches practice the Prayer of Holy Ephrem the...

January 2017

January 05, 2017

Theophany with the Orthodox in the cold

I'm sitting in a coffee shop in Chicago's Old Town waiting for the Vigil for...

December 2016

December 24, 2016

Nativity 2016: God is with us! Understand, all you nations, and submit yourselves, for God is with us!

They say that 2016 was a pretty terrible year, and they (whoever 'they' are) seem to...

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...

June 2014

June 30, 2014

Chinglican Christianity: Sanctorum Communio

Roger Revell has hit the nail right on the head. There is nothing like full-bodied...

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