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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...

February 2019

February 28, 2019

To sing the world in a career: on Asian American poetry slowly finding me

Recently, I was at a talk given by the poetry professor Timothy Yu, and while...

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 11, 2019

The Catholic far-right’s fantasies of education: on the online mobbing of Stephen Lewis

As far as I understand it, there is currently a hubbub over at Franciscan University...

November 2018

November 24, 2018

Stock, broth, and the scholarship of everyday life: a theory of soup after Thanksgiving

Two nights ago, I was at my dear friend and mentor Ji-Yeon Yuh's house...

November 11, 2018

‘Still love you’: revisiting the Cantonese Protestant dissertation in everyday life

Perhaps the scariest thing for a young scholar is to revisit the dissertation. It is...

November 08, 2018

The spear against the shield: the fear of sex and icons in my Chinese Protestant childhood

The rediscovery of my Chineseness after my conversion to Eastern Catholicism, which seems to be...

October 2018

October 13, 2018

The Bishops of Rome and the Hieromartyr Óscar Romero: on Paul Elie in The Atlantic

Paul Elie's piece in The Atlantic on the Bishops of Rome and the Holy New-Hieromartyr Óscar...

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 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 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...

September 05, 2018

Blogging as hysteric confession (‘I give you three years to narrate yourself’ #1)

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

September 03, 2018

The Francis Ideology

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

August 2018

August 02, 2018

I study publics

I remember the first time I solicited advice from a colleague - an equal,...

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...

May 16, 2018

I didn’t want to listen to music about sex (Album Challenge #3)

When I was taking trumpet lessons as a teen, my teacher made suggestions every so...

February 2018

February 16, 2018

On process and preparation

When I wrote my 'conversion to liberation theology' series last December, Sam Rocha wrote to...

January 2018

January 08, 2018

Lipstick on my relics

Eugenia Geisel is one of my former students at the University of Washington and is...

December 2017

December 27, 2017

Illich and Ilyich (My conversion to liberation theology #12)

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

December 15, 2017

On my encounter with erotic Catholic personalism (My conversion to liberation theology #4)

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

July 2017

July 31, 2017

Le surnaturel is a mess: everyday musings on the Feast of St Ignatius

My spiritual father is a Jesuit, and he has invited me as well as this...

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'...

July 09, 2017

Sam Rocha told me something beautiful

Sam Rocha told me recently that I am not a geographer. You are a geometer, he...

July 07, 2017

To write Cantonese, to write the truth, to write in the Spirit who renews the face of the earth

I am finding these days that whenever I write something, I usually get pulled despite...

April 2017

April 02, 2017

Great Canon Reflections, Part 3: Holy Mary of Egypt and the erotics of holiness

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

August 2016

August 03, 2016

A Note from My Editor, Sam Rocha

My editor here at Patheos Catholic, Sam Rocha, has a note for all of you...

July 2016

July 29, 2016

Does Being Catholic Change How I Write About Pope Francis?

I used to write about Pope Francis from the vantage point of a secular academic who...

July 27, 2016

Growing Up Conservative

I'm still doing some housekeeping on this blog to get myself situated and organized, but...

July 19, 2016

Sure, I’ll write about growing up conservative

This is the first post in a blog series tentatively titled (pending a better title) ‘Growing...

November 2014

November 19, 2014

An Ignatian meditation on why Artur Rosman was defamed

The piece is cross-posted as a guest post on Artur Rosman's Patheos Catholic blog, Cosmos...

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