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May 2019

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 26, 2019

I was born in the year of Chornobyl: for Great and Holy Friday

Fr Myron Panchuk used to draw a lot of significance out of the fact that...

April 20, 2019

Christian atheism as orthodox liberation from the tragic farce of privilege: for Lazarus Saturday

The next time some chump in any of the Christian communions says to me that...

March 2019

March 18, 2019

‘They are us’: on having no words on Christchurch, Ethiopian Airlines, and the ecological crisis

I have been at a loss for words about the deaths of so many in...

March 11, 2019

The death of the father: for Forgiveness Sunday

I was just sitting down at an intentional Christian community's arts sharing night when I...

March 06, 2019

The morality of the closet: for Cheesefare Week after the Latins’ Ash Wednesday

For those who are among the cheeky in the Latin Church, Ash Wednesday is what...

December 2018

December 31, 2018

Hong Kong borscht with beets restored: a recipe

I was around nine when the first Hong Kong tea café in the Fremont-Union City-Newark...

October 2018

October 28, 2018

Flower Drum Song is probably the most uniate film I’ve ever seen

Tonight, in a fit of course preparation for my Chinese American studies course, I finally...

September 2018

September 23, 2018

Freud’s throne room

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

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 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...

July 2018

July 25, 2018

The pop psychoanalysis posse and the popular culture of Ida

The following post contains spoilers for the film Ida. On the occasion of my birthday...

June 2018

June 04, 2018

The Wound of History

In my first childhood memory, I am standing by the fireplace. It's made of brick,...

February 2018

February 19, 2018

What neoconservatives want (Great Fast #1)

The most frequent words out of the mouth of Olivia Pope, played by Kerry Washington...

February 17, 2018

The way of the imbecile

The philosopher Avital Ronell says that we have been having a 'war on stupid.' Stupidity,...

December 2017

December 28, 2017

‘…and suburban place I’ve been, make me recall my name in the New Jerusalem’ (My conversion to liberation theology #13)

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

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 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...

September 2017

September 01, 2017

Geography, the writing of the earth: reflections for the beginning of the Byzantine Year

I have a PhD in geography, so it follows that I should have something to...

July 2017

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'...

November 2016

November 11, 2016

I went from having nothing to say about the elections to realizing that making sense of this Trump thing is going to take some agonizing discernment in agonistic dialogue

As the election results came trickling in on Tuesday night indicating that Donald Trump would...

July 2016

July 30, 2016

I’m planning to write about World Youth Day, but I can’t chase this ambulance

I said in my last post that I want to write about World Youth Day,...

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 21, 2016

ADDENDUM: stuff I remember reading in Catholic high school

This is an addendum post to the third post in a blog series tentatively titled (pending a...

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