The Work Is Never Done
Dear Abbie and Liz, Given your love for theology, I thought I’d share the following reflections on someone you should at least be acquainted with. His name is Helder Camara, former archbishop of Recife, Brazil…
Category: Latin America
How Offended the Bourgeoisie Were after the Revolution
As an example of bourgeois mentality: some aunts of his wife (otherwise excellent ladies) when the Revolution began to nationalize the private clubs, came home telling about the countless indignities that they had to endure…
Share the Wealth: Love and Other Lessons Learned from Ecuador
From July 2013 to August 2014, Chelsea Jaeger was a volunteer in the Rostro de Cristo program, living in intentional community with six other volunteers near Guayaquil, Ecuador. As a group and as individuals, they…
Word of the Day
Disponibilidade, noun, Portuguese A disposition of openness In which one is accessible Available and willing To be inconvenienced By the needs or requests Of another person or event –adapted from Mev Puleo, The Struggle Is…
Fidel on Che
He had a gift for people. He was one of those people that everyone immediately cares about—it was his naturalness, his simplicity, his sense of comradeship and all his virtues. He was a doctor; he…
Facing the Facts
My life is mapped out: it is my destiny to take a bullet by the Mafia some day. The only thing I don’t know is when. —Giovanni Falcone See how the accusations against the…
Books Can Be Subversive
Somoza’s guards burned the 10,000 volumes of the Solentiname library –from Prophets in Combat: The Nicaraguan Journal of Bishop Pedro Casaldáliga [1986]
“This is, because that is; this is not, because that is not…”
A young Sandinista combatant Said to Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Miguel d’Escoto: “If there had been more Christians like you, there would be fewer atheists like me.” from Prophets in Combat: The Nicaraguan Journal of Bishop Pedro Casaldáliga [1986]
Focused
When I decided to really buckle down and study, I’d study fifteen or sixteen hours a day. I’d have breakfast, lunch, and dinner with a book in front of me, never taking my eyes off…
What It’s Going to Take
Mev: Did you suffer any threats? Ilza Mendes: Yes, they would harass me on the streets or encircle our house. Sometimes I’d come home and find 30 men standing outside my house, all with revolvers…