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January 2019

January 12, 2019

Even if not: the witness of a Nativity spirituality

One of the pleasures of being on two calendars at the same time -- the...

January 03, 2019

Icons, postsecular practice, and the prepolitical: working reflections

In the divergence of my academic work and my popular reflection, the common integrated theme...

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...

September 2018

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 03, 2018

The Francis Ideology

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

May 2018

May 17, 2018

‘Not by might, not by power, but by the Spirit of God,’ or, how I play the piano like a trashy Pentecostal (Album Challenge #5)

Around the time I entered junior high, my mom decided that it was time that...

February 2018

February 24, 2018

The supernatural in the Sunset (Great Fast #6)

My dad booked me on a flight to San Francisco so that I could see...

February 22, 2018

On learning about ‘church politics’ when I was seven (Great Fast #4)

I am following the train of thought I've taken for these first few days of...

February 21, 2018

‘Politics is very close to your soul,’ or, how I learned about the Kyivan Church Study Group (Great Fast #3)

Early on in my catechumenate, my spiritual father told me about the Kyivan Church Study...

February 20, 2018

The feeling behind ‘the kids are all Democrats’ (Great Fast #2)

I read yet another hot take on how Trump is destroying Republicanism and how most...

December 2017

December 13, 2017

On the ‘good politics’ of Radical Orthodoxy, by which I mean Anglicanism (My conversion to liberation theology #2)

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

July 2017

July 27, 2017

On the ‘West’: a perverse defence of politics

There has been a considerable amount of popular interest in the concept of the 'West'...

April 2017

April 15, 2017

Arise, O G-d, and judge the earth! #HolySaturday

Holy Saturday is interrupted. During the Holy Saturday Liturgy, the Byzantine churches read passages from...

December 2016

December 23, 2016

Late for an Umbrella Movement retreat, I learned makrodiakonia as the art of political discernment by accidentally walking through the deacon door

Shortly after the clergy prayer meeting that I wrote about in my last post, the...

July 2014

July 31, 2014

Nobody cares about the Mars Hill protest. #TPCIU

Since writing my last post, I have learned that there is a planned protest by...

June 2014

June 18, 2014

Chinglican Christianity: Infallibility Is Political

Stuff circulates when you're having a good time. Over the last day or so, my...

July 2013

July 08, 2013

Organizational Chaos and Original Sin

I preached yesterday on the Sunday Gospel lectionary text, Luke 10:1-11, 16-20. The passage concerns...

December 2012

December 16, 2012

Joy: a defiant sermon

[I did not preach today, and I do not envy those who must. However, in...

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