Chew Lin’s Signs of Life

Gratitude and Surprise

This is a version of what I prepared for the Billings Prize Preaching competition. The original idea was seeded by Madhu and Jie Hui, in a conversation about what has surprised us so far about our experience of the coronavirus that we’d like to carry into the future. I’m sharing the…

Endings, Beginnings, Continuations

Who knows where the arrow leads? Or what happens after the wall ends?

The kingdom of the sick, the kingdom of the well

Every Thursday at noon, the Dooley Chapel on the West Campus of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center hosts a short service, as a way to lift up and hear the prayers that people have left over the week. This past week, I was the presiding…

Dispatches from the (Near) Future

This is edited from a paper submitted for a class on comparative monasticisms. Part of that class involved visiting with several monastic, or monastically-inspired communities from Christian and Buddhist traditions in the Massachusetts area.

Who’s (not) there?

“You’ll definitely meet your mother here.”

I don’t do hope

Someone was reflecting that I was putting a lot of work into an internship application and asked, “what do you hope to get out of…

Midterm update

Signs of life, after the regret of not writing over summer (apparently the lack of writing and the stacks of unread good intentions is a common thing):

• I might add makeup/skincare people to a list of informal chaplains: from the enthusiastic SA at CVS who recommended me my…

Devotion and Discipline

The word for this year seems to shaping up to be “devotion”.