Monday be like... #mondayfeels

View outside my room at Galong retreat Centre, where I will contemplate with the Catholic Education Council on our mission, while watching new scores of new lambs engage in competitive prancing in their paddocks.

Mon-Day be like... #StMonica #FeastDay

Thank you for the shout out Daniel Ang, a fellow Asian in arms!

NEW POST: The Memory, the Eros, the Salvation How can memory, especially the erotic dimension to our memory, be an aid to our salvation rather than damnation? bit.ly/3AGv2b7 #awkwardasiantheologian #theology #memory #eros #eucharist #carthusian

You know you are not Asian enough when you find a chain of Vietnamese artisanal tofu makers and you take a picture in amazement.

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Attention to mystery may also be an education for the imagination, enabling us to think far better about how the mystery of the divine enfolds all, is present to all, and yet transcends all. --Lewis Ayres hubs.la/Q02JjVQF0

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The Holy Father and the Great Immam. An important symbol of friendship in faith.

NEW POST: An Augustinian Theology of Catholic Migrant Identity What can Catholic migrant identity theologically say about everyone else's? My piece at The Catholic Weekly bit.ly/47dCoiw #awkwardasiantheologian #theology #augustine #bonaventure

“Asia is our future. And even in the local Church in Australia.. the faces are becoming more & more Asian, a lot of Filipinos, Indonesians, Vietnamese, Koreans, Indians. That reveals something about the flavour for the Church in Australia” Archbishop Peter A Comensoli vaticannews.va/en/church/news…

Monday be like... #mondayfeels

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As I will be on pilgrimage, I will be taking a pause in regular blog updates, but expect new material when I return in at the beginning of October. In the meantime, a summary of previous highlights. bit.ly/3B3OZJl #awkwardasiantheologian #christian #migrant #identity

Monday be like... #mondayfeels

Two companions as I start the Pathways of St Paul Pilgrimage to Greece and Turkey: St Paul as engaged by Marxists and my Adina Tree Frog Countrymaster. Will be bringing all your intentions to the holy sites. #awkwardasiantheologian #paulwenttoasia #asiaminor