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Buddhism and the Real World

Dr. Donald S. Lopez, Jr. on what the dharma might offer in the domain of social action

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Seventy Years Since

Dr. Efraín Agosto narrates a first-generation Puerto Rican migration story in honor of his parents

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Expiration Date

A devotional by Rev. Dr. Loida Martell

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Santa Lucía de Siracusa…y de Las Matas de Farfán

Joel Andrés Ramírez pinta un contexto político, social y religioso de la virgen y mártir, patrona religiosa de un pueblo dominicano

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Nuestra Señora De Las Nieves

Beatriz Terrazas seeks a saint in the heart of a war zone

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Calavera Images and José Guadalupe Posada

Jim Nikas digs up how the 19th-century Mexican graphic artist popularized the skull imagery associated with Día de Los Muertos

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What Cancer Did Not Take

Jackie Cruz holds strong

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Benedictine Blackboard

High-school religion teacher Stephen Adubato illuminates the cracks in postmodernism

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Facing Nihilism with High School Seniors

Stephen Adubato develops a syllabus to confront the big questions

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Learning Useless Things

Stephen Adubato touches on incarnational learning in Catholic schools with a letter to his Benedictine-high school students

College Orientation and the Long Loneli</a>ness

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College Orientation and the Long Loneliness

Stephen Adubato remembers his freshman year

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Complex Dynamics

Mathematician Dr. Robert D. Ogden reflects on being an Anglo in Anglican Hispanic ministry

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A Coyolxauhqui Imperative

César “CJ” Baldelomar ruminates on writing, memory, and death

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World Christianity, Urbanization, and Identity

Dr. Raimundo Barreto, Rev. Dr. Moses Biney, and Dr. Kenneth Ngwa introduce the third book in the six-volume series World Christianity and Public Religion

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The Wafers

Angie Cruz presents an excerpt from her novel Dominicana

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Hostias

Angie Cruz presenta un extracto de su novela Dominicana, traducida por Kianny N. Antigua

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Symbols of Latinidades in the 2020 Election

Dr. Michael DeAnda decodes signs of the times

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Say Their Names

Rev. Joanne Rodríguez calls for support of the Open Letter from the Association of Theological Schools Latinx Presidents and Deans. Photo: Mateo Zapata

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The Harlem Lynching Tree, with Poems for Alma

Taylor Alexis Baker presents inspired excerpts from her novel in progress

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Decolonize

Sharon Lee De La Cruz presents a spirited chapter from her graphic memoir I’m a Wild Seed