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Awkward Asian TheologiansS2E10 Dreaming of Dumplings: NostalgiaMatt and Dan close out the season by steaming up a conversation on nostalgia. They start with food (of course) and how something as simple as a bowl of congee or a forgotten jar of Lao Gan Ma can open the floodgates of memory. But nostalgia isn’t just about taste - it’s about longing for a home, a church, a culture that might never have existed the way we remember it. From there, they stir-fry their way through questions of identity: Why do so many of us romanticize worlds we’ve never actually known...
2025-11-1426 minAwkward Asian TheologiansS2E9 Pray, Pay & Obey: LaityIn this episode, Matt and Dan do what good Catholics do: overthink their vocations. But this time, they’re not just being Catholic laymen but being Chinese Catholic laymen (yes, it matters, and yes, we’ll unpack that). Matt goes off about the Church’s unspoken two-track economy - one clerical and another lay, while Dan wonders aloud if theology has a built-in side-eye for the laity as “the non-ordained”.Then the two wander into the papal magisterium (because we contain multitudes) and discover not just a grudging nod toward the idea of a theol...
2025-10-3141 minAwkward Asian TheologiansS2E8 Heaven's Tiger Mum: MaryMatt and Dan (yes, the Asians) go full Catholic and talk about Mary, “the tigerest of tiger mums”. The one who said “yes” to God with the kind of fierce loyalty that only an Asian mum could pull off. They dive into how Mary's fiat isn't just a theological yes, it’s the ultimate immigrant mum move: sacrificial, strategic, and quietly revolutionary. From knockoff Marian statues in Chinatown shrines to Our Lady rocking hanfu, we unpack how Mary becomes a cultural chameleon, enfleshing the Gospel in a thousand tongues and ten thousand images. They also...
2025-10-1725 minAwkward Asian TheologiansS2E7 Woe is (Hokkien) Mee: Suffering (Part II)Matt and Dan are back at it again — stir-frying their brains in the theological wok of suffering. This week, they dig deeper into Pope John Paul II’s Salvifici Doloris, a document with more spiritual depth than your Ah Ma’s silent judgment. Why do humans not just suffer, but also spiral into deep thoughts about suffering? Is this a grace, or just another form of divine trolling?Matt and Dan chew over how pain forces us to ask life’s big, messy questions — like char kway teow: greasy, satisfying...
2025-10-0324 minAwkward Asian TheologiansS2E6 Lotus in the Fire: Suffering (Part I)It’s September which, as every Chinese auntie knows, means ghost month is over but the suffering of the long year has just begun. In this episode, Matt and Dan slip into the bitter oolong of theological reflection and sip slowly on the paradox of suffering: the kind that doesn’t go away when you pray harder, and the kind that doesn’t get prettier when you quote Romans 8 at it. Framing the conversation between the minimisers, who deny the pangs in stoic detachment, and the maximisers, who build Chines...
2025-09-1935 minAwkward Asian TheologiansS2E5 Love in Translation: FeelsWelcome to Awkward Asian Theologians, where Matt and Dan embark on their most swoon-worthy, heart-fluttering episode yet - a theological deep dive into love. They unpack why a band called Foreigner penned the immortal anthem “I Want to Know What Love Is” - because, spoiler alert, someone else might just have a better grip on love than we do. But beyond the catchy chorus and cheesy 80s power ballads, Matt and Dan plunge headfirst into the depths of Benedict XVI’s Deus Caritas Est — his first encyclical, the love letter to love itself.
2025-09-0522 minAwkward Asian TheologiansS2E4 Bubble Tea After Mass: MigrantsMatt and Dan sit down with a pot of oolong and a question: What happens when people move – and the Church moves with them? In this episode, they poke around the tangled roots between migration and the makeup of the global and local Church. Like a bamboo grove shaped by wind and soil, the Church grows along the fault lines of human movement, and it’s anything but static. They also untangle a very awkward knot: What does it mean to do things “Asianly” and do things “Christianly”? Are these two different tea leaves, or the same...
2025-08-2233 minAwkward Asian TheologiansS2E3 There Is No Asian, Only Duty! MissionMatt and Dan kick things off by casually showing off their wristwear, channelling peak Asian salaryman energy, before limping valiantly into the Church’s missionary posture (not that posture, you degenerate). Along the way, they acknowledge the burnout risk faced by missionaries, like it’s Lunar New Year and they’re the last firecracker still sparking. In a move bound to disappoint the ancestors, they float a spicy proposition: maybe mission isn’t just about divine task completion and unquestioning obedience. Maybe faith is more than duty. They even dare to talk about love and relationships, concepts complete...
2025-08-0838 minAwkward Asian TheologiansS2E2 How Yellow Was My Mochi? RepresentationMatt and Dan go meta, like two lost dumplings floating in a bowl of hot broth, trying to figure out what it means to do things “Asianly.” They untangle the knots of representation and the elusive “Asian standpoint”, confess to using a smorgasbord of labels - the made-up tags that others love to slap on them - and wonder: could we swap these out for something purely Asian? Maybe a porcelain teapot? Or a bamboo shoot? Somewhere in the chaos, they explore the theological weight of navigating these sticky, pre-pack...
2025-07-2527 minAwkward Asian TheologiansS2E1 Jesus Was What? ChristologyMatt and Dan kick off the new season by going full ying-yang – back to the basics. And by basics, we mean Jesus. That’s right: before we talk Resurrection, redemption, or rewatching Wong Kar-wai films for spiritual insight, we’re starting at the source. Who is Jesus? What’s up with his name? And why does it matter that he’s both God and human, king and servant, fully divine and yet creating awkwardness at first century dinner parties? Related to this, the Asians grapple wi...
2025-07-1132 minAwkward Asian TheologiansS1E10 What Christians Believe: Faith (Part II)In this second instalment of the two-part meditation on faith, Matt and Dan move from Asia’s unique spiritual terrain toward a more universal grammar of belief.Defying the expectations of tiger mums, they explore faith not as a possession or passport, but as a living rhythm—more pilgrimage than property. Along the way, they challenge some sticky assumptions: that faith is an identity badge, a doctrinal treasure chest, or a battleground of truth claims.They also sit with the Church’s role as a kind of guardian - both temple gatekeeper and matern...
2025-05-1633 minAwkward Asian TheologiansS1E9 Making Asians Great Again: Faith (Part I)Our most Asian episode yet! Matt extols the hidden mystery of Australian country Chinese cuisine, while Dan riffs on the situation of Christians across Asia. He debunks the myth that Christian faith in the region has simply been a proxy for colonialism or a late addition to the Chinese religious menu. They end by asking what it means to be fully Christian and fully Asian, concluding it is an increasing urgent question for Asians and non-Asians (and likely has something to do with steaming fish).Daniel Ang: Bearing Witness in...
2025-05-0230 minAwkward Asian TheologiansSPECIAL The Pope Who Shook Our Aunties: FrancisMatt and Dan light a joss stick for the ancestors and crack open a very special (and slightly spicy) episode of Awkward Asian Theologians - this time, in memory of the dearly departed Pope Francis. Yes, the Argentinian Pope who said “Pachamama” out loud in the Vatican and lived to tell the tale. They reflect on a papacy that was as chaotically beautiful as your auntie's home altar: a bit cluttered, deeply sincere, occasionally controversial, and full of incendiary content. Matt takes a detour into the legacy of Luigi Giussani - no, not a K-drama villa...
2025-04-2344 minAwkward Asian TheologiansS1E8 Aren't We There Already: Mystery (Part II)This is the second installment of a two-parter on the theme of mystery.Matt and Dan use more big words to talk about how divine mystery makes itself incarnate into our experience. They also talk about how Christian grappling of divine mystery should lead to a certain posture, one that brings us to our knees rather than inflates our heads.Look out for the use of the term "sacramental ontology".
2025-04-1832 minAwkward Asian TheologiansS1E7 Are We There Yet: Mystery (Part I)Matt and Dan begin a two-parter on what mystery is and entails. They use big words like "epistemology", and warn us about the risk of reducing mystery to a jingoistic stopping of further reflection on the life of faith. They also warn us about the conceit of thinking one's way to salvation, instead of truly encountering the complexity of reality and God's working his way through our lived experience.Graham Ward: The UnimaginablePope Francis: Address to Participants in the International Congress on the Future of Theology
2025-04-0434 minAwkward Asian TheologiansS1E6 Asian Flexing: EvangelisationMatt and Dan talk about the finer details of asian dinner conversations, before speaking about the Christian task of evangelisation. They clarify the important distinction between evangelisation and "flexing" (and why one does not equate with the other). They also talk about the link between parish life and the imperative for evangelisation, and the important place of divine gift, journeying and communion in the proclamation of the Gospel.Pope Francis, Evangelii Gaudium
2025-03-2134 minAwkward Asian TheologiansS1E5 The Ancestors!!!!: TraditionIn this episode, Matt confesses to being a sedevacantist, discusses with Dan why Catholic tradition matters, and how it can be the cause of maximum emotional damage for the Asian. They also look at change and faithfulness, engaging the analogy of the body.Second Vatican Council:Dei Verbum (esp 7-9)Anne Carpenter’s article onMaurice Blondel & the Fights Over Catholic Tradition.
2025-03-0732 minAwkward Asian TheologiansS1E4 This Time With Feeling: SacramentsIn this episode, Matt and Dan talk about the sacraments, try not to offend Protestants (and like good Asians, fail), and ponder if mere culture can save us (Spoiler: it can't).They also look at why evangelisation matters, involves each of us and why Asians make parishes complex.Escencia Life CentreAlpha in a Catholic Context
2025-02-2131 minAwkward Asian TheologiansS1E3 Karaoke With Sacraments: ParishesMatt and Dan discuss what to order at Yum Cha. They also speak of other things good, true and beautiful, jumping off their previous episode on Theology and focusing on the spiritual life of parishes, the fundamental building block of most Catholics' spiritual lives.
They explain and speak of the centrality of missionary discipleship for the local community of faith, and in so doing, bust a big myth about what parishes are meant to do.
They also declare that Asians make bad hymns good, and demonstrate why Catholics should get off the sacramental treadmill, and...
2025-02-0835 minAwkward Asian TheologiansS1E2 Asians Seeking Understanding: TheologyIn this episode, Dan incurs Matt's jealousy by discussing his favourite dim sum, and also laying claim to all things Asian.
They also discuss other steamy goods like theology. They define what it is, what it is not, and what good it does to us intellectually, pastorally and spiritually. They also discuss why Catholics (Asian or otherwise) should care and reflect theologically in order to better engage with the reality, time and space in which they live, as well as deepen their relationship with Jesus.
SPOILER ALERT: They also talk about why one cannot think...
2025-01-2832 minAwkward Asian TheologiansS1E1 Dishonouring Cows Since 2025: PilotLeave your shoes at the door!
Matt and Dan introduce themselves, the podcast and, like good Asians, justify their own existence.
They also speak of the importance of history and mystery and introduce a special third guest.
Robert Imbelli: A Wondrous Adventure
2025-01-1230 min
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