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GOOD DOCS

Selections from the award-winning collection of documentaries that do good in the world

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Pura vida: La voz de Queen Nzinga

La poeta y ensayista costarricense-panameña Dlia McDonald Woolery celebra la literatura afro escrita por mujeres

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Forget-Me-Not: Mati in memoriam

The Hispanic Theological Initiative commemorates theological social ethicist Dr. Matilde Kathleen Moros

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Liminal Theology

Selections from the online space of practical theology that explores the boundaries, transitions, and the in-between

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Finding La Negrita

Dr. Natasha Gordon-Chipembere presents excerpts from her recent novel, a retelling of Costa Rica’s Black Madonna narrative

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Intervenxions

Selections from the online publication of The Latinx Project at NYU

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Far and Near

Rev. Dr. Harold J. Recinos presents excerpts from his latest collection of poetry The Looking Glass

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Turn Back and Look

Seminarian Amanda Calderón gives voice to Lot’s Wife

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Theologies That Resemble Our People

Emanuel Padilla on theology, cultural memory, and Latina memes

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Virgin of Altagracia Medallions

Dr. Jennifer A. Baez on how the popular votives helped model black piety and community membership within a hierarchical socioracial order in 18th-century Dominican Republic

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Marking Time

José A. Pérez presents ten poems

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Songs of Songs

Stephen Adubato listens for the sacred in secular music

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The Days You Bring

Rev. Dr. Harold J. Recinos presents excerpts from his newest collection of poetry

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Neruda on the Park

Cleyvis Natera presents excerpts from her debut novel

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Where the Sidewalks Meet a Time Before Water

Poet Rev. Dr. Harold J. Recinos and photographer Danny R. Peralta present excerpts from their Bronx-inspired books

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The Grand Silence, 1929

An excerpt from Song of the Water Saints by Nelly Rosario on the novel’s 20th anniversary

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Ode to [Elegies]

Poet Robert Carlos García explores the complexities of modern life and death

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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

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After Dark/Nueva Luz

Rev. Dr. Harold J. Recinos presents excerpts from his latest poetry collection / En Foco, Inc. illuminates with photography from their journal archives

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World Christianity, Urbanization, and Identity

Dr. Raimundo Barreto, Rev. Dr. Moses Biney, and Dr. Kenneth Ngwa introduce the third book in the six-volume series World Christianity and Public Religion