Stability in Times of Change
“A case can be made that someone with a strong, confident religious identity is better qualified to survive in a globalizing world of shifting and collapsing identities.” Philip Jenkins
Pave Your Way Past Pain
By David Ramos Old San Juan, Puerto Rico I grew up in Sunset Park, Brooklyn and have many fond and painful memories of my childhood running around the streets of Brooklyn playing stickball, “Skelzies,” and “Cocolevio.” On 37th Street between 4th and 5th Avenue I recall that this block had a unique feature—it was still …
Nothing can Keep Us from Our Loving Father’s Reach
“I know what you are like! But I will heal you, lead you, and give you comfort, until those who are mourning start singing praises. No matter where you are, I, the Lord, will heal you and give you peace.” Isaiah 57:18–19 Contemporary English Version
Island Fever
Gigi and I will be traveling to Puerto Rico tomorrow for about a week. I won’t have e-mail access in the mountains of Moca. Touch base with you all when I get back. Devo
"Expect Greatness." Belinda Passafaro
Paine on Counterintuitive Peacemaking
"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for it he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." Thomas Paine
“Losing My Religion”
By David Ramos One summer, years ago, I remember going to this club at Ramey Base in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico called Cocomo’s with my little nephew. What the club lacked in size it more than made up with an outstanding DJ and no cover charge. I sat at a table and waxed philosophical as the …
Film to Address HIV/AIDS in the Latino Community and Church
Dear co-laborer in the Lord’s vine, The world just passed the 25th anniversary of the first reported case of HIV/AIDS. Still, after a quarter-century of battling what many call "the greatest humanitarian crisis of our time," the stigma attached to AIDS remains and the epidemic has yet to let up after infecting more than 65 …
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NYC Emergent Cohort
Yesterday I had the privilege of meeting with the NYC Emergent cohort led by Jeff Kursonis. About ten of us gathered at Origins where we discussed the lost art of listening as well as how the Emergent dialogue has created spaces of discussion that transcend denomination, ethnicity, and other categories. Over crackers and cheese we …
Soul Rest
“You made our hearts for thee, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in thee.” Augustine