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May 2019

May 14, 2019

The secular does not stop when your drive dies: mystagogy for Bright and Thomas Weeks

I was in Madison for Great and Holy Week because every year, the Association of...

May 10, 2019

I’m flattered to be named an Asian American theologian

A student messaged me about a month ago to tell me that she had read...

April 2019

April 15, 2019

‘She’s relatable’: on St Mary of Egypt Social Justice Fellowship

A few weeks ago, those of us who compose our mission group in Chicago, St...

April 12, 2019

On the perversion of the eucharistic body: the pornographic society in Benedict XVI’s letter on sex abuse

It goes without saying that Benedict XVI's recently published letter on sex abuse is terrible....

January 2019

January 15, 2019

Ubi caritas et amor, Deus ibi est: working reflections on the problematic in the postsecular wasteland (for St Sylvester’s Day)

To me, the theology of the Latin Church is encapsulated by the dictum, Ubi caritas et...

September 2018

September 29, 2018

Sitting with the negations: for the Feast of the Exaltation and the beginning of the school year

The past Thursday was the Feast of the Universal Exaltation of the Holy and Life-giving...

September 25, 2018

Organization is about infrastructure: possibly a review of the secular

It will be hilarious if, by the end of this blogging journey of self-narration, this...

September 19, 2018

‘Boys will be boys’ and the secularization of the church’s problems: reflections on Anita Hill and Christine Blasey Ford

I was about five years old when I learned the term sexual harassment. It thoroughly confused...

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...

May 2018

May 20, 2018

Mission Day #3: God is with us – we belong to God

Lord, I am here. Lord, I am yours. 'A human being today feels the need...

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,...

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...

June 2013

June 22, 2013

Wired by the Law

If you look at the Who's Who of American High School Students in 2002, you'll...

June 21, 2013

Apologizing for the culture wars, moving toward secular sexualities

The apology of Exodus International's Alan Chambers toward LGBTQ+ populations yesterday and the Exodus board's...

May 2013

May 31, 2013

Mary is yours, whether you are ‘catholic’ or ‘evangelical’

We call this a Thing, as Churl says, professing to have a meeting of the...

May 27, 2013

Sovereign Clashes and the Obstruction of Justice

Trigger warning: abuse, sexual abuse, Sovereign Grace; obscenely verbose and lengthy post The blogosphere has...

May 26, 2013

The Curses of Trinity Sunday

You could say that Trinity Sunday is a day of curses. Traditionally, after all, it...

December 2012

December 31, 2012

Dispatches from the War on Christmas 2012

I've heard an awful lot this Advent season and Christmas octave about keeping "Christ" in...

June 2012

June 30, 2012

The Liberty of “China Wine”

The recent uproar over investigations over the misuse of funds at City Harvest Church in...

April 2012

April 07, 2012

God Is Dead

The T-shirt is tongue-in-cheek. God is dead, it reads that Nietzsche says. And as if...

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