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Prayers for the New Year II
Listen - Feb 5, 2025

Prayers for the New Year II

Rev. Dr. Joanne Rodríguez, Rev. Dr. García-Rivera and vocalist/composer Imani Uzuri offer more prayers to bless 2025

Author HTI Community & Friends
11 min listen
Siempreviva Ceremony
Read - Jan 29, 2025

Siempreviva Ceremony

Inspired by her Lukumí, Taino, and Quaker traditions, Quiara Alegría Hudes takes us through the ceremony where she celebrated the published script and adaptation of her memoir, My Broken Language, A Theatre Jawn

Author Quiara Alegría Hudes
10 min read
Cultural Memory from the Margins
Read - Jan 22, 2025

Cultural Memory from the Margins

Isabel Gonzalez breathes in religious tradition

Author Isabel Gonzalez
12 min read
Walking You Home
Listen - Jan 15, 2025

Walking You Home

Spiritual Care Counselor Rev. David Ramos talks with HTI Open Plaza’s managing editor and poet Marta Lucía Vargas on pastoral work, death and faith during the COVID-19 pandemic

Author Marta Lucía Vargas
33 min listen
Self-Portrait in the Zone of Silence
Read - Jan 8, 2025

Self-Portrait in the Zone of Silence

A workshop on integrating liberatory practices into educational spaces and community formation processes.

Author Homero Aridjis
15 min read
Prayers for the New Year
Listen - Jan 1, 2025

Prayers for the New Year

Sr. Alexandra Bonilla Leonel, Rev. Dr. Eric Barreto, Sr. Fatima Santiago, Sr. Iselande Surlin, Juan Carlos Ruiz, Marimene Antoine, and Dr. Xochitl Alvizo offer prayers to initiate 2025

Author HTI Community & Friends
26 min listen
Landing a Dove
Listen - Dec 25, 2024

Landing a Dove

Rev. Dr. Joanne Rodríguez talks with Dr. Leopoldo A. Sánchez M. about Spirit Christology and what scripture says about the Holy Spirit in the life of Christ

Author Rev. Dr. Joanne Rodríguez
29 min listen
Faith and Flight: A Trip to the Border
Read - Dec 18, 2024

Faith and Flight: A Trip to the Border

Miriam Guadalupe Juárez, a doctoral candidate at NYU, presents the first dispatch of “Faith and Flight: Latinx Migration in the Art of Belief,” a Historias project of The Clemente Center

Author Miriam Guadalupe Juárez
20 min read
Inclusivity and Institutional Change in Education
Listen - Dec 11, 2024

Inclusivity and Institutional Change in Education

Dr. Ish Ruiz and Dr. Colleen Mary Mallon, a Dominican Sister, discuss her latest book, which examines the intersection of theology, education, and social justice, with a specific focus on race and LGBTQ+ inclusion

Author Dr. Ish Ruiz
46 min listen
Words Chosen for the Wall
Read - Dec 4, 2024

Words Chosen for the Wall

Harold Recinos presents seven poems

Author Rev. Dr. Harold J. Recinos
15 min read
Home Among the Clouds
Read - Nov 27, 2024

Home Among the Clouds

A new short film by Kogi screenwriter Jacinto Zarabata and the Tairona Heritage Trust for the Sierra Nevada of Colombia

Author Alan Ereira
10 min read
Meditation space
Listen - Nov 20, 2024

La Iglesia Que Migra

Father Brian Strassburger and Father Flavio Bravo discuss the Jesuits' efforts on behalf of migrants in the Rio Grande Valley with artist and anthropologist Cinthya Santos Briones

Author Cinthya Santos Briones
47 min listen
Revisión de pura vida
Watch - Jan 29, 2024

Revisión de pura vida

“El Profe” Yonar Brenes Masís entrevista a Hernán Ramírez, al P. Federico Carrasquilla y a Benedito de Queiroz en Medellín, Colombia

Author Yonar Brenes Masís
50 min watch
The Hope of the Gospel
Watch - Sep 26, 2022

The Hope of the Gospel

Dr. M. Daniel Carroll Rodas talks to Dr. Mark S. Young about his book on theological education and the next evangelicalism

Author Dr. M. Daniel Carroll Rodas
41 min watch
Descolonizando la educación teológica latinoamericana
Watch - October 5, 2023

Descolonizando la educación teológica latinoamericana

Stephen DiTrolio Coakley habla con el Dr. Nicolás Panotto acerca de su próximo libro sobre ‘religión, educación y teología con acento poscolonial’

Author Stephen DiTrolio Coakley
31 min watch
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