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Brown Church: Five Centuries of Latina/o Social Justice, Theology, and Identity is unavailable, but you can change that!

Interest in and awareness of the demand for social justice as an outworking of the Christian faith is growing. But it is not new. For five hundred years, the Latina/o culture and identity has been shaped by its challenges to the religious, socio-economic, and political status quo, whether in its opposition to Spanish colonialism, Latin American dictatorships, US imperialism in Central America,...

status. This hateful narrative fuels white nationalist violence, and it inspired the El Paso massacre of August 3, 2019—the worst mass slaughter of Latinas/os in modern times.25 As the Brown Church, we take solace in knowing that Jesus, our Lord, was also Brown. As a working class, young adult, Jewish man living in the colonized territory of Galilee, he also occupied a space of social, political, cultural, and religious liminality.26 Geographically, Galilee was a borderlands region where Jewish,
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