Carmen Nanko-Fernandez

Being in Ministry

Church Leadership & Ministry

“Artist, minister, scholar, and teacher, Douglas Purnell creates an integrated portrait of what an implicated ministry looks like amidst painful and challenging circumstances. He skillfully interweaves image and text in a healing narrative that reveals the heart of ministry in daily living within community.”

Latina Evangélicas

Theology

“A welcome and necessary addition to the theological table, and in particular to la mesa latina. This labor of love is a spirited and spirit-filled example of teologia en conjunto. These three authors, Latinas evangelicas, rooted in the richness and diversity of their daily places and communities, expand theological vocabulary and offer fresh perspectives on traditional systematic themes by drawing on lived experience latinamente.”

Wading in the River

Arts & Literature

“Wading in the River is animated by a theopoetics of lo cotidiano. Rooted in our precarious and pandemic times, the poems of Harold Recinos chronicle the intensity of daily living from social and racial unrest in our cities to state-sanctioned cruelty at our southern border. He lays bare the damage done to bodies marginalized by the machinations of a dysfunctional president and reveals resistance unleashed from unexpected cyberspaces by ‘TikTok teens and K-Pop fans.’ Composed in barrio beats of his familiar streets en el Bronx, and with lyrical Latin@ì playfulness with dos lenguas, ‘a sofrito English, refried words with a taste of órale people,’ Recinos calls us together ‘to weep for the God who has been driven into exile!’”