Wherever I am, the world comes after me.
It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it.
Now I understand why the old poets of China went so far
and high into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist.
"The Old Poets of China" by Mary Oliver

BOOK CHAPTERS

BOOK CHAPTERS

2023. "The Elderly in the Filipino Family." In Resilience and Familism: The Dynamic Nature of Families in the Philippines Vol 23 Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research, edited by Veronica Gregorio, Clarence Batan and Sampson Lee Blair, 285-99. UK: Emerald Publishing. (Co-authored with Belen T. Medina).
2023. "Religion in the Public Sphere in the Aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan." In Disasters in the Philippines: Before and After Haiyan, edited by Glenda Tibe Bonifacio and Roxanna Balbido Epe, 317-47. UK: Bristol University Press.

2000. “Dialogue between Faith and Culture and Popular Devotions.” In Filipino Popular Devotions: The Interior Dialogue between Traditional Religion and Christianity, edited by Leonardo Mercado SVB, 11–21. Manila: Logos Publications.

1993. "Rising from the Ashes: The Resettlement of Concepcion." In The Shadow of the Lingering Mt. Pinatubo Disaster, edited by M. Bautista, 2019–29. Quezon City: College of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of the Philippines Diliman