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Pathways of Hope and Faith Among Hispanic Teens
Building on the largest national survey of teenage religion ever conducted, leading Catholic and Protestant experts recount in unprecedented detail the experiences of God, faith, community, youth ministry, and family among the fastest-growing segment of young people in the country--Latinos. Listen as young Hispanics describe their faith and hopes in their own words; gain understanding of the major issues affecting their religious development and life prospects; and improve your ministry or family life with insightful pastoral recommendations. Note: Please allow 7-14 days for delivery.
Latino Catholicism
Discusses the growing population of Hispanic-Americans worshipping in the Catholic Church in the United States.
A Future for the Latino Church
Daniel Rodriguez argues that effective Latino ministry and church planting is now centered in second-generation, English-dominant leadership and congregations. Based on his observation of cutting-edge Latino churches across the country, Rodriguez reports on how innovative congregations are ministering creatively to the next generations of Latinos.
Building Bridges, Not Walls
Are you a leader, clergy or lay, in a Catholic parish wrestling with how to bridge the multiple ethnic, linguistic, and racial communities that increasingly comprise your parish? With these cultural backgrounds frequently come diverse perspectives on everything from how to communicate with each other to how to understand God. In addition, such cultural divisions all too often manifest differences in the access these communities have to parish decision-making structures. In Building Bridges, Not Walls - Construyamos puentes, no muros, John Francis Burke highlights the dramatic impact the growing Latino presence is having in parishes across the country, considers the theology of inculturation ...
But I Don't Speak Spanish
Presents a narrative approach to ministry with young people, emphasizing the narratives of today's U.S.-born and/or -raised Hispanic young people, based on the fundamental proposal: The function of ministry is to uncover and nurture the salvific narratives in the lives of the people in our communities.
The Shared Parish
As faith communities in the United States grow increasingly more diverse, many churches are turning to the shared parish, a single church facility shared by distinct cultural groups who retain their own worship and ministries. The fastest growing and most common of these are Catholic parishes shared by Latinos and white Catholics. Shared parishes remain one of the few institutions in American society that allows cultural groups to maintain their own language and customs while still engaging in regular intercultural negotiations over the shared space. This book explores the shared parish through an in-depth ethnographic study of a Roman Catholic parish in a small Midwestern city demographical...
Human Development and Faith (Second Edition)
Updated with the latest research, this second edition approaches human development from a multidisciplinary perspective. Uniquely inclusive of the moral and faith dimensions of the life cycle, 'Human Development and Faith' examines the interplay of mind, body, family, community, and soul at every stage of development. (Back cover).
Healing God's People
In this age of growing divisions within the Church and society, we need reconciliation and healing now more than ever. Healing GodÆs People brings together the thought of these theologians and pastors: Francine Cardman, M. Shawn Copeland, Frank Desiderio, CSP, Kate Dooley, OP, Peter Fink, SJ, Raymond G. Helmick, SJ, Thomas A. Kane, CSP, Melissa M. Kelley, Michael McGarry, CSP, Hoffsman Ospino, Rodney L. Petersen, Thomas W. Porter, Thomas P. Ryan, CSP, Robert J. Schreiter, CPPS, Thomas Stegman, SJ, The fruit of two conferences held at the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry in 2009 and 2011, this collection of essays aims to introduce the reader to the complexity of the issues and suggest practical pastoral responses. Book jacket.
Pastoral Juvenil
This first book in the Prophets of Life and Hope series: • Presents the definition, goals and principles of Pastoral Juvenil. • Contrasts the main characteristics of Pastoral Juvenil in the United States with Youth Ministry and Young Adult Ministry, which are the two main models in the prevailing culture. • Highlights spirituality as an essential dimension in Pastoral Juvenil, noting the importance of pastoral spirituality. • Contains a chapter on the Prophets of Hope model, as the theological-pastoral framework that guides Pastoral Juvenil and gives consistency to the work of the Instituto Fe y Vida in its mission of empowering teens and jóvenes to be the protagonists of their life...
