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No atual turbilhão de incerteza política, os protestantes assumiram um papel central no desdobramento da fusão da política e da religião no Brasil. O livro recente do Dr. Wanderley Pereira Da Rosa, Por uma fé encarnada: uma introdução à história do protestantismo no Brasil (Editora Recriar, 2022), reinterpreta a missão protestante – suas raízes históricas, teológicas e ideológicas – e oferece uma...

In this episode of OP Talks, Dr. Jorge Juan Rodríguez V and Rev. Dr. Lis Valle-Ruiz discuss digital platforms for popular theological education. Drawing from his academic training in history and biblical studies, Dr. Rodríguez V offers tips, such as identifying "the one thing you want people to walk away with," and describes how different digital platforms have shaped his writing. He finds life in...

Everything Black includes rage, love, family, futures, magic, revolution, dignity--as suggested in the table of contents for Black Dignity: The Struggle against Domination (Yale University Press, 2022) by Dr. Vincent Lloyd, Director of Africana Studies at Villanova University. In this episode of OP Talks, Matt Vega talks to Dr, Lloyd about the book, which delineates a new concept of Black dignity,...

Financialized capitalism is “a pattern of accumulation in which profits accrue primarily through financial channels rather than through trade and commodity production,” according to Greta R. Krippner. In this episode of OP Talks, liberation theologians Dr. Jung Mo Sung and Dr. Filipe Maia discuss his recent book Trading Futures: A Theological Critique of Financialized Capitalism (Duke University P...

Can the biblical prophets speak into our world today? In The Lord Roars: Recovering the Prophetic Voice for Today (Baker Publishing Group, 2022), Old Testament ethicist Dr. M. Daniel Carroll Rodas demonstrates that learning from the prophets can make us better prepared for Christian witness. In this episode of OP Talks, Dr. Jean-Pierre M. Ruiz—a Catholic—talks to Dr. Carroll—an evangelical—about t...

Rev. Dr. Doris García-Rivera is former president of the Evangelical Seminary of Puerto Rico (ESPR). The private mainline Protestant seminary in Río Piedras was founded in 1919 by a group of theological schools and biblical institutes of the Protestant denominations that arrived on the island after the Spanish-American War. Nearly a century later, in 2014, Dr. García-Rivera became the first woman p...

Rev. Dr. Tony Lin talks to Miguel Escobar about his new book The Unjust Steward: Wealth, Poverty, and the Church Today (Forward Movement, 2022). "Here is a book that inspires, yes, but also challenges and unsettles all who would take seriously Jesus’s Way of Love,” writes The Most Rev. Michael B. Curry, XXVII Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church and author of Love is the Way (Penguin, 2020). “...

Chicana/o studies scholar Dr. Adriana Nieto talks to Rev. Dr. Kristina Lizardy-Hajbi, Director of the Office of Professional Formation at Iliff School of Theology, about the volume Explore: Vocational Discovery in Ministry (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022), which Rev. Dr. Lizardy-Hajbi co-edited with Matthew Floding. The book is ideal for ministerial leadership students in search of paths to follow. “I...

In this episode of OP Talks, Stephen Di Trolio interviews Chicano educator, administrator, and institutional strategist Dr. Patrick Reyes. He is the host of the Forum for Theological Exploration (FTE) podcast “The Scholar’s Guide to Writing,” a series of guided practices to assist scholars in the art of writing a dissertation. Dr. Reyes is also Senior Director of Learning Design at FTE, a leadersh...

In this episode of OP Talks, doctoral candidate César "CJ" Baldelomar talks to his teacher and mentor Dr. Mark Jordan, whose work focuses on Christian theology, European philosophy, and gender studies. The wide-ranging conversation touches on Dr. Jordan's teaching practice, on what led him to theology, and on his devotion to the act of private writing, which he believes helps him understand God. W...

In this episode of OP Talks, Stephen Di Trolio Coakley talks to theologians Dr. Raimundo Barreto and Dr. João Chaves about the rising strength of Evangelicals in Brazilian politics that led to the 2018 election of far-right presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro, who is currently locked in a runoff race with former left-wing president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The runoff election will take place a...

In this episode of OP Talks, Rev. Dr. Tony Lin talks to friend and colleague Rev. Mickey Correa about his work as a pastor in Washington Heights, preparing the next generation of clergy, and never forgetting about the "humanity of ministry." Rev. Correa is the Chief Program Officer at Blanton-Peale Institute & Counseling Center in New York City and serves as the pastor of Christ Church NYC Washing...

'The Tip of the Pyramid: Cultivating Community Cultural Capital' (University of New Orleans Press, 2022) by writer and activist Tony Diaz, known as El Librotraficante, was published ten years after Arizona officials enforced a ban on Mexican American Studies. Diaz drove throughout the Southwest on his way to Arizona—with a caravan of Houston activists that included poet Lupe Mendez, Liana Lopez, B...

Dr. Vincent Lloyd, Director of Africana Studies at Villanova University, talks to theologian and social theorist Matt Vega about his doctoral research around racial capital, which Vega examines through personal, theological, and academic lenses. Vega’s understanding of the relationship between race and capitalism, he says, was greatly influenced by political scientist Dr. Michael C. Dawson, who ad...

En este episodio de OP Talks, presentado por Stephen Di Trolio Coakley, el Dr. Rafael Vizcaíno comparte cómo su historia como migrante y su deseo de dedicarse a la filosofía lo llevaron a los campos de Estudios Decoloniales y de la Filosofía de Liberación. El tropo de la fetichización es central en la filosofía de liberación latinoamericana y su propuesta de un método “antifetichista,” como lo ana...

The late Msgr. Neil A. Connolly served as a parish priest for close to 60 years. After his ordination at age 24, he spent eight weeks in Ponce, Puerto Rico, taking part in a pioneering New York Archdiocesan language-immersion program in Spanish. The young Irish-American priest quickly adapted to an environment that was predominantly Latino. His priesthood would be defined by the South Bronx and Pu...

READ MORE "The power of divine play at Sophia’s Theme Park" by Lis Valle-Ruiz, The Presbyterian Outlook, 5 October 2021

In honor of Mother’s Day, OP Talks presents a mother-daughter conversation between sociologist and ethnographer Dr. María del Socorro Castañeda and Lupita Tonantzin Castañeda-Liles about keeping the lines of communication open so that we can heal intergenerational trauma. After Lupita faced some challenging times in middle school, they decided to start Becoming Mujeres, a training firm that provid...

In this episode of OP Talks, President of the American Academy of Religion Dr. Mayra Rivera and American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow Dr. Mark D. Jordan discuss his recent book Transforming Fire: Imagining Christian Teaching (Eerdmans, 2021). Among the questions Dr. Jordan engages are: What was Jesus’s teaching pedagogy? Considering that he taught in a variety of ways—parable, discussion, m...