In this conversation we found ourselves discussing Japan’s outsiders—the Burakumin, Yakuza and tattoos, and the like. The conversation was completely unscripted, unplanned, and free flowing, and oddly enough, one of our best ever. We hope you enjoy. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit liturgicalasia.substack.com

In this episode we interview author and speaker Walt Mussell, a mathematician by trade, but a historian of Japan by night. Walt focuses his talks on “Japan’s Christian century,” the hundred years or so between the 1540s to the 1640s when Christianity was legal and spreading in early Edo Japan. Walt also writes fiction based on this period.Walt's books This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit liturgicalasia.substack.com

In this episode Sean, Riki and I discuss our Easter 2025 experienes. Riki talks about her first time at an Eastern Orthodox Pascha (Easter) service, and I talk about my first experience of serving at the altar as an acolyte during Old Catholic Holy Week and Easter. Sean chimes in helpfully. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit liturgicalasia.substack.com

In the session of the podcast, recorded on X Spaces, we spent time with Jacob, a college student who is running a highly successful X account dedicated to the Catholic history of East Asia. Jacob was a breath of fresh air and it was a pleasure spending time with somewho who is simply using the X platform to explore a topic that is meaningful to them, and precisely because of this has been able to reach and inform many others on X with the same interest. Join us in this serendiptious crossing of paths. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit liturgicalasia.substack.com

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit liturgicalasia.substack.com

This is a long over due publication of an episode recorded back in the Autumn. It’s so rich in detail, that we are putting out there anyway! Hope you all find it interesting too. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit liturgicalasia.substack.com

St Basil the Great--Address to Young Men on the Right Use of Greek Literature https://archive.org/details/BasilLitUse This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit liturgicalasia.substack.com

Cleric Sean and Dr. Todd interview Fr. Dominic Rooney OP, on the interaction between Catholic and Confucian thought, both in the modern day and in Medieval China. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit liturgicalasia.substack.com

After centuries of mission and colonisation, the Philippines remain overwhelmingly Roman Catholic, but up in the Mountain Province, the Igorot people remained pagan until just over a hundred years ago. That was when the Anglican missionaries came. Not wanting to evangelise on Rome’s turf, they limited their activity to those as yet unreached by the Gospel, and the Igorot people welcomed them. What made the Igorots see the new missionaries differently? How was their own native spirituality treated by the missionaries? How does it continue to inform their Christian lives today? These are just some of the questions addressed by our guest, Bishop Ray Frenzel Piluden, Anglican Bishop of Santiago and proud Igorot. Be sure to tune in to find out about Christian inculturation in perhaps a less familiar part of Asia - and to hear some Igorot gongs! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit liturgicalasia.substack.com

Dr. Todd, Fr. Tom and Cleric Sean interview Berek Smith, an Anglican priest in Japan, on the importance of the tea ceremony, understanding Japanese culture, and the hospitality of God. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit liturgicalasia.substack.com