Ken Sawyer

Doing Theology Latinamente

History & Biography

“Rivera-Rodríguez expands the archive in this important story of people, ideas, agendas, and institutions. Through a rich and informative synthesis of a remarkable array of interviews, school records, and secondary sources, Rivera-Rodríguez, the historian, describes formative contexts and explains the emergence of coherent but diverse academic forms of Latinx theology. Tracking programs through successive stages, including failed efforts and false starts, Rivera-Rodríguez describes the ways in which Latinx ministries achieved visibility and voice in seminaries and by way of accrediting agency mandates. In this well-crafted work on Protestant theological education, Rivera-Rodríguez has produced the new standard.”

Prison Life and the Aftermath of Thug Living

Church Leadership & Ministry

“Damien Davis invites readers into an important conversation about people in American prisons. By developing a program of care centered in the stories and needs of these people, Davis de-centers older models and re-centers the work by using surveys to ask (and more importantly, to listen) to imprisoned persons themselves. Damien’s method invites us to consider three deceptively simple words: caution, care, and collaboration—each word a world to itself, brought together in a generative method of engagement, agency, and advocacy.”

Witness in the Dust

Fiction

“A needed tract for these times. In this compelling meditation on memory, migration, faith, and belonging Lorrie Reed provides a Haitian migration memoir by turns violent, hopeful, resistant, and resilient. Her fiction underscores the fact that whatever America might still become is carried in the hearts and hands of migrants and the communities of care that sustain them, not in the cynical deployment of ICE squads against the innocent, nor in the cowardly policies of nativist governments. This is a well-wrought and timely story, providing a kind of catechism for a more humane society.”