Soundtracking ‘Blue Beetle’
Listen alongside Sudabée Lotfian-Mena for theological imagery in the superhero movie
Exegeting Bad Bunny
Stephen Adubato and Rev. Alex Evangelista hold a conversation and listening party around the music of the Puerto Rican artist and producer
Theologies That Resemble Our People
Emanuel Padilla on theology, cultural memory, and Latina memes
Songs of Songs
Stephen Adubato listens for the sacred in secular music
Queer and Apostolic
Felipe Agredano talks to Abel Alvarado about writing his play Arena: A House MUSIC-al, inspired by growing up gay in a devout Christian family in 1990s Los Angeles
Arena: A House MUSIC-al
Abel Alvarado presents three scenes from the musical about a gay man growing up in a devout Apostolic family in 1990s Los Angeles
On Music, Justice, and Hope
Dr. Leopoldo A. Sánchez M. serenades Instituto Nacional de Panamá Class of 1966 alumni: his father Carlos Sánchez, musical artists Basilio Fergus and Rubén Blades
How DMX Prayed
César “CJ” Baldelomar eulogizes the late rapper
¡Red Alert!
Dr. Neomi De Anda claims red lipstick as a Latina expression of resistance and empowerment
OPMMXXI: Divine Playlist 2021
Usher in the new year with divinely inspired music selections by Open Plaza Contributors
God’s Cantos y Cuentos
Dr. Matilde Moros listens for an excess of possibility
"A Latino Classical Musician?"
Dr. Leopoldo A. Sánchez M. on mestizaje in the world of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms
Of Chords and Scars: Musical Musings of a Border Crosser
Dr. Néstor Medina takes us on a musical journey from Guatemala to Canada