godforsaken geographies
Justin Tse is a cultural geographer of the transpacific who is using this site to log his reading of Balthasar’s triptych. For his actual work (meaning, neither blogging nor being Catholic are his actual work), see his other wordpress. For what he used to write on Patheos Catholic, see Eastern Catholic Person, because he’s still Eastern Catholic (Kyivan Church, preferably with Galician chant sung like Mariah Carey, thanks). For the influence of Fr Harry Cronin CSC on his reading of Balthasar, see here.
Also, the reason the Bay Area poet and scientist Diana Fu is on the epigraph is because Justin gave a talk on how a (post)secular person living in the transpacific region like her might be engaged by Pope Francis’s encyclical letter Fratelli tutti to an interreligious gathering organized by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Singapore on Pentecost 2021. He’s working on getting that piece published. When it’s ready, the link will be here. Justin will be quoting many more Asian American, transpacific, and Sinophone writers and artists, in English (whether original or in translation), who are usually not Catholic and probably not even religious, in his engagements with Balthasar, because why not? Wasn’t the Community of St John, as he and Adrienne von Speyr, supposed to be a secular community?
godforsaken geographies 