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September 2018

September 24, 2018

The chastity of the writing chamber

I want to write a little more about the writing chamber that I have been...

September 21, 2018

Of the many brilliant lines in the Internet scholar Yasmin Nair's lengthy critique of the...

September 20, 2018

The depression of men of letters

When I was about seven years old, I sat with my grandfather as he drank...

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 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...

August 2018

August 24, 2018

Writing to clarity on the abuse crisis in the Latin Church

Over the past week or so, I've been trying to work through what I think...

July 2018

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 04, 2018

The anti-orientalism of Asian American evangelicalism is far from complete: Eugene Cho, Eastern Orthodoxy, and ecclesial death

My dear friend, the Claremont ethicist Grace Kao, nominated me last week on facebook to...

February 2018

February 28, 2018

Fremont, the site of my first major intellectual mistake (Great Fast #10)

Last weekend in the Bay Area, I was talking to one of my earliest students...

February 26, 2018

Lady Bird and the transfiguration of everyday life (Great Fast #8)

There are necessarily spoilers for what I am about to write. But it is fair...

February 16, 2018

On process and preparation

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

December 2017

December 19, 2017

The spiritual direction of Eastern Catholic materialism (My conversion to liberation theology #7)

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

August 2017

August 30, 2017

Writing as a convert

There has been a little bit of a dust-up in the Latin Church recently about converts...

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...

July 2017

July 08, 2017

LAST WEEK’S SERIES: being Cantonese in the church’s service of liberation to the world

On Monday, I wrote a post on Hong Kong, and I was frustrated. Perhaps the uneasiness...

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...

March 2017

March 11, 2017

The Blog in the Economia of Academic Writing

Yesterday, I had an illuminating conversation with a senior colleague who showed me something about...

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