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June 2019

June 04, 2019

Tiananmen is my first childhood memory: reflections on infantile formation

My mother tells me that I could read before I turned two. I do not...

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 16, 2019

‘Vocatus atque non vocatus deus aderit’: Fr Myron Panchuk and the Kyivan Psychoanalysis Study Group

Last year at Pascha, I went with my sister and brother Summer and Julian, along...

November 2018

November 27, 2018

‘Philip, go south’: revisiting my family history in the Chinese church (for the Feast of the Holy Apostle Philip)

In the autumn of 1999, our family was in a bit of a lurch. My...

September 2018

September 26, 2018

Crossing the rooms of the intellect

Once upon a time, the Jesuit scholar Matteo Ricci impressed the Ming imperial court...

September 23, 2018

Freud’s throne room

As I was going about my day on this fine Sunday Before the Exaltation of...

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 12, 2018

Cantoring, cinematic transference, and chastity (‘I give you three years to narrate yourself’ #6)

This is the sixth in a series reflecting on what I've been doing on the...

September 11, 2018

Writing with psychoanalysis, breaking the mirror (‘I give you three years to narrate yourself’ #5)

This is the fifth in a series reflecting on what I've been doing on the...

September 10, 2018

Liberation theology taught me the meaning of community is to treasure my brothers more than my fathers (‘I give you three years to narrate yourself’ #4)

This is the fourth in a series reflecting on what I've been doing on the...

September 07, 2018

I am not a jook sing because I have a home and am Catholic (‘I give you three years to narrate yourself’ #3)

This is the third in a series reflecting on what I've been doing on the...

September 04, 2018

Another cantoring dream – quilting Greek chant, hipster evangelicalism, and the Anglican realignment

The thing I remember about the beginning of this dream was that it was a...

July 2018

July 30, 2018

First thoughts on Andy Warhol and Eastern Catholicism, with thanks again to Eugenia

Yesterday, we dropped off our dear sister Eugenia Geisel at the train, fresh from a...

July 28, 2018

To have been a child of the nineties: reflections on sex, conservatism, and pop culture

I am a child of the nineties. It has been hard for me to admit...

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 24, 2018

My mother taught me to clean: reflections for another birthday

Yesterday, on the eve of my birthday, I offered some reflections on my mother 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 14, 2018

Transference, mystagogy, and freedom from intellectual second-guessing

Two Fridays ago at the Feast of Ss Peter and Paul on the New Calendar, I...

July 03, 2018

A strange Eastern Catholic cantoring dream

Last night I had the strangest of dreams. The scene begins with our temple...

June 2018

June 22, 2018

Evangelicalism and the pornification of conservative politics in the Americas

It is actually not difficult to understand why it is that evangelicals are now supporting...

May 2018

May 03, 2018

‘I write to save my soul’: thoughts on writing for mid-Pascha

It is mid-Pascha, and I have not blogged for a while. But on Monday, I...

February 2018

February 15, 2018

They call me Prof Yenta

Some former students of mine have joked recently that I am basically 'Prof Yenta.' I...

February 14, 2018

The Freud candle house blessing

A few Sundays ago, I invited the group that I facetiously call the Kyivan Psychoanalysis...

December 2017

December 22, 2017

The ‘suffering’ of the model minority (My conversion to liberation theology #10)

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

December 21, 2017

Liberation psychology and the Kyivan Church’s anti-colonial study group (My conversion to liberation theology #9)

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

December 18, 2017

The problem of ideology in my writing (My conversion to liberation theology #6)

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

August 2017

August 15, 2017

The presence of the Wise Older Women (Dormition Fast #13)

Psychoanalyze me, but I am often given to being taken in by the advice of...

April 2017

April 01, 2017

Great Canon Reflections, Part 2: on Abba Zosima as ‘spiritual father’ and his encounter with Holy Mary of Egypt

This is the second in a series of posts on the Great Canon of St...

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