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

2025. "Building Sustainable Futures: Lessons from an Indigenous Community in the Margins." In Indigeneity in the Philippines: Studies on Knowledge, Identity, and Rights, edited by  Leah Abayao, Jimmy Fong, and Carolyn Podruchny, 313-35. Honolulu USA: University of Hawaii Press.
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