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July 2019

July 23, 2019

I’ve found my way home: on the unraveling of the private consensus for me

When I was around seven years old, I said something to a family friend that...

March 2019

March 17, 2019

Please do not ask me about Jung: for the Sundays of Orthodoxy and Gregory Palamas

This post, written on the Sunday of Orthodoxy on the Old Calendar and of Gregory...

September 2018

September 03, 2018

The Francis Ideology

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

March 2018

March 01, 2018

‘Your private life is not private’: on the private consensus (Great Fast #11)

I was talking to my friend in Vancouver about my last post, which was on...

February 2018

February 28, 2018

Fremont, the site of my first major intellectual mistake (Great Fast #10)

Last weekend in the Bay Area, I was talking to one of my earliest students...

December 2017

December 17, 2017

The Umbrella Movement exacerbated my mental tension between the ‘politics of the parish’ and the primal personal (My conversion to liberation theology #5)

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

December 14, 2017

To have been so right, and yet so wrong, about the private consensus (My conversion to liberation theology #3)

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

August 2017

August 11, 2017

The private consensus is unraveling (Dormition Fast #10)

In 2013, in the year of the election of Jorge Mario Cardinal Bergoglio SJ as Pope...

September 2014

September 02, 2014

Benny Tai as a political theologian, or what Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig might have to say about Occupy Central #HongKong

When Hong Kong University law professor Benny Tai gave his speech announcing acts of civil...

August 2014

August 21, 2014

The black church taught our family the meaning of han. #Ferguson

This is a post about the private consensus. I'm finally going to say something about...

July 2014

July 30, 2014

Mark Driscoll’s William Wallace posts were already public. #TPCIU

For some reason, my satirical post on how Mark Driscoll is forensically justified after his...

March 2014

March 11, 2014

Who Cares About Megachurch Scandals? Or, a post about private sovereignties

With the recent spate of controversy surrounding megachurch pastors like Mark Driscoll, Steve Furtick, and...

March 08, 2014

Cosmos the in Lost: The Ecumenism of the Private Consensus

Greetings from Seattle. I'm happy to report that I've left Storybrooke and resettled at the...

December 2013

December 20, 2013

Duck Dynasty and the Corporatized State, or ‘The Kimye Hermeneutic’

To be honest, I was not interested in the Duck Dynasty fiasco until Sarah Pulliam...

November 2013

November 20, 2013

TPCIU, Part 2: Guess what? Evangelical social media spats actually matter.

My apologies for the tardiness of this next post. When I started writing about this...

October 2013

October 26, 2013

The Private Consensus Is Unraveling, Part 1: an Asian American open letter and American religion

There are moments in the career of a young academic when choices have to be...

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