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March 2019

March 27, 2019

Fiat mihi secundum verbum tuum: on the crisis of my Annunciation spirituality

I write these thoughts on the occasion of the Feast of the Annunciation on the...

February 2019

February 16, 2019

The body exists, and I am one: the mystagogy of the time of Nativity

One of the graces of the Byzantine churches is our habit of echo-feasts. The Feast...

December 2018

December 29, 2018

The return of the Mother of Sheshan to my prayer: late reflections for Nativity and the Synaxis of the Theotokos 2018

Atop the Basilica of Our Lady Help of Christians on Sheshan Hill in Shanghai stands...

November 2018

November 30, 2018

‘Mary, what are you thinking about?’: on the Oranta of Kyiv and the Theotokos of Belz-Częstochowa (St Philip’s Fast #3)

I grew up evangelical. Things make sense to me in the theological register of evangelicalism,...

October 2018

October 14, 2018

Oscar Romero, the scholarship of everyday life, and the omophor of Pokrov for the civilization of love

These are my reflections on the canonization of Archbishop Oscar Romero in our sister Latin...

October 09, 2018

Theology is the exegesis of love (for the repose of Holy John the Theologian)

I have long reflected on why, mysteriously, the Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian...

September 2018

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 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...

August 2018

August 15, 2018

The kairos of the Dormition and the death of superstition

The Orthodox theologian John Panteleimon Manoussakis has a fascinating passage in his first book God After...

July 2018

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...

June 2018

June 27, 2018

Anti-authoritarian martyrs and passion-bearers: thoughts at the end of the Apostles’ Fast 2018

In my icon corner in Chicago hangs three 'group icons' of holy martyrs: the Holy...

December 2017

December 25, 2017

On ‘Mary, Did You Know?’

I remember the first time I heard 'Mary, Did You Know?' It was at a concert...

September 2017

September 08, 2017

And I, I did not even know it: on the Nativity of the Theotokos

Last night, I walked to Great Vespers for the Nativity of the Theotokos at the...

August 2017

August 22, 2017

SERIES: Reflections on the Most Holy Theotokos and her Dormition

Over the duration of the Dormition Fast on the New Calendar (August 1-15), I wrote...

August 15, 2017

The assumption of the people (Dormition Fast #14)

Recently, a priest of the Latin Church impressed on me the significance for the West...

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...

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 10, 2017

The primal catholicity of the Immovable Wall (Dormition Fast #9)

Of all the scary things that an Eastern Catholic can say to someone in the...

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 06, 2017

On my fundamentalist feminist theology (Dormition Fast #4)

It is a truism within Chinese evangelical circles that whatever is not its brand of...

August 04, 2017

Being afraid of the Theotokos as Catholic, charismatic, carnal (Dormition Fast #3)

I attended a school run by an Assemblies of God church in Fremont, California, from...

August 02, 2017

‘I see the Blessed Virgin standing next to you’ (Dormition Fast #2)

A few years ago, when I was very single, I used to see a Filipina...

August 01, 2017

The bearing of God, the death of triumphalism (Dormition Fast #1)

There is a story about Constantinople that makes the inner evangelical in me wince. It's...

July 2017

July 31, 2017

Dormition posts on the Theotokos

The Dormition Fast begins tomorrow. I figure that with all this stuff I've been writing...

April 2017

April 27, 2017

To make philosophia my way of life in the academy

Yesterday night, I went home to discover in my mailbox that Dariusz Karłowicz's new book Socrates...

April 01, 2017

‘Rejoice, Thou Bride Unwedded!’ #AkathistSaturday

The tradition of our church is to hold the Saturday of the Fifth Week of the...

March 2017

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...

December 2016

December 12, 2016

Ms Lauryn Hill, the theologian I finally heard

Around late August last year, I was scrolling through my news feed when I saw...

August 2016

August 19, 2016

Most Holy Theotokos, save us (Catholicity: Identity and Its Discontents)

This is the first post on my blog to mention the forum 'Catholicity: Identity and...

August 15, 2016

Dormition is the name of the temple where I was assumed by Eastern Catholics

As the Feast of the Dormition wraps up, I feel like I have some explaining...

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