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March 2019

March 29, 2019

Psychic connections are neither here nor there: on Susan Howatch and spiritual direction

I first got the idea that I should receive spiritual direction around the time I...

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...

March 02, 2019

By the waters of Babylon: the Sunday of the Prodigal among the Chinese Christian diaspora

At Matins on the Sunday of the Prodigal, we begin to sing 'By the Waters...

September 2018

September 30, 2018

‘That each musical note we emit may blossom into a stream of praise’ (on my Old Calendar baptismal anniversary)

On September 17, 1995, I was baptized by the hand of the Rev. James Ou...

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...

July 2018

July 27, 2018

On my extended adolescence in differentiating from evangelicalism

My spiritual father read my daddy issues post yesterday and began watching Hillsong videos. He...

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 22, 2018

I had another cantoring nightmare last night

The dream started like any other cantoring dream. I was in front, at the temple,...

July 10, 2018

Asian American evangelicals, Eastern Catholics, and the question of uniatism

I don't know what it says about me that the most popular post around here...

October 2017

October 31, 2017

Luther and me: thoughts for Reformation Day on its 500th anniversary

I remember the first time I learned about Martin Luther. My dad came home after...

August 2017

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 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...

August 09, 2017

‘Theologos, save us?! Whaaat?’: through the prayers of the Theotokos (Dormition Fast #7)

Recently, I was at an evangelical Protestant college event as a workshop speaker, and as...

August 08, 2017

‘More Catholic than the Catholics’: a tale of transfiguration (Dormition Fast #6)

By the time I was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Washington, I thought...

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...

July 18, 2017

Eugene Peterson (and ‘evangelicalism,’ more generally) in a world made up only of intentions

Eugene Peterson is a Protestant pastor and theologian. He is an ordained minister in the...

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 25, 2017

Reliving my catechumenate while writing about Protestants

I had an inkling as I went into this year's Great Fast that things were...

March 25, 2017

The Theotokos came to me through the Word #Annunciation

When I was an evangelical, one of the things that everyone kept harping about when...

March 03, 2017

Lord, even as I write about Protestants, drive from me the spirit of sloth, despair, lust for power, and idle chatter

The origins of the Great Fast, I am told, lie in the catechumenate. In anticipation...

December 2016

December 16, 2016

By participating in the Umbrella Movement, the Eastern Catholic Church’s gutsyness inspired Vancouver’s younger Chinese evangelicals

In my last post on first encountering a Chinese Canadian Eastern Catholic Jesuit priest at...

July 2016

July 26, 2016

I’m a person on Patheos!

I'm on Patheos! It is a bit strange to say that, but here I am,...

December 2015

December 09, 2015

Courageously mourning with Eastern Catholics

Recently, I organized an event for an Eastern Catholic parish. I am not Eastern Catholic....

July 2014

July 17, 2014

Should Asian Americans/Canadians care about Hong Kong? Part 4: The UK Question

This is the fourth installment of a series on whether Asian Americans and Asian Canadians...

April 2014

April 24, 2014

Forget Tim Challies

There are two versions of Cee Lo Green's instant classic, that is, his imprecatory...

December 2013

December 31, 2013

Breaking the Curse of Academic (Dis)enchantment

As I prepare to move to Seattle, I am also saying goodbye to a place...

June 2013

June 13, 2013

What’s So Good About Being Anglican? (Part 2)

I've gotten exactly what I wanted. Over the night after I posted my first post,...

June 10, 2013

Preaching Elijah

In the Revised Common Lectionary, today is the third Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 5. The...

May 2013

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...

October 2012

October 31, 2012

A Day for Protestant Jokes

As CaptainThin pointed out, today is Reformation Day and All Hallows' Eve. I think it's...

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