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Creating Meaning and Purpose

Dr. Robin Owens and Dr. Patrick Reyes offer perspective

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The Stories We Tell Each Other

Stephen Adubato talks to Angie Cruz about the theological themes and imagery in her novel Dominicana

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Theological Education between the Times

Dr. Antonio Eduardo Alonso, Lucila Crena, and Rev. Dr. Ted A. Smith introduce a project out of HTI member school Emory University Candler School of Theology

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Complicated Grief in Extraordinary Times

Rev. Dr. Loida Martell and psychologist Rev. Dr. Yvonne Martínez Thorne discuss coping strategies and how caring for the whole matters

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Faith, Justice, and Immigration

Rev. Miluska Aquije touches base with her mentors Rev. Maritza Crespo and Rev. Dr. Orlando Crespo

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Prof. Felipe Agredano talks to California-based medical professionals Prof. Dr. Lenny Lopez, Dr. Maricela M. Luján Maffey, and Hon. Dr. Sandra Salazar

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Our Lady of Lactation

Dr. Neomi De Anda and artist Alicia Sosa-Provencio discuss La Virgen de Guadalupe and the divine power of breastfeeding

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Brown in Red Orange County

Dr. João Chaves talks to Dr. Jonathan Calvillo about his research on faith and ethnicity in Santa Ana, a Mexican-majority city in one of California’s most conservative counties

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Predicadores

Dr. João Chaves and Rev. Dr. Tito Madrazo discuss his latest book on Hispanic preaching and immigrant identity

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Race, Religion, and The Republic

Felipe Agredano talks to Rev. Evang Freda Morrison, Dr. Andrea Johnson, and Dina Cervantes about the intersections

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‘I Am Not Your Virus’: COVID-19 and Creation Care

Rev. Dr. Loida Martell and Alex Zareth break down emergent diseases and the viral nature of racism in a globalized world

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Cuban Literature in the Age of Black Insurrection

Dr. Elías Ortega-Aponte and Dr. Matthew Pettway discuss his debut book on how two 19th-century Cuban writers envisioned emancipation through the lens of African spirituality

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Apostles of Change

Jorge Juan Rodríguez V and Dr. Felipe Hinojosa discuss his new book on Latino radical politics, church occupations, and the fight to save the barrio