Latina Evangélicas Quotes

“Anger and tears create the space for the work of the Spirit. They are the groaning of the Spirit for renewal or creation and an expression of compassion thus revealing a deep spiritual well. To fear our tears or to suppress our anger is to block the power of the spirit springing forth from within our spiritual wells to resist death and to sustain and renew life.”
― Elizabeth Conde-Frazier, Latina Evangélicas: A Theological Survey from the Margins

“To claim Jesus as Lord is to say that his sovereignty extends to the economic, the political, the social, the cultural, the aesthetic, the ecological, the personal, and the communal arenas. Nothing is excluded from his sovereignty. And likewise nothing is excluded fro the church's ministry of reconciliation.”
― Elizabeth Conde-Frazier, Latina Evangélicas: A Theological Survey from the Margins

“When someone names you, they have the power to objectify you and create you in whatever image they desire.”
― Loida I. Martell-Otero, Latina Evangélicas: A Theological Survey from the Margins

“Like the eschatological banquet table, the conversation is only complete when all are welcome and all are heard.”
― Loida I. Martell-Otero, Latina Evangélicas: A Theological Survey from the Margins

“The God of Jesús sato [Jesus the mutt] is creator and healer, one who pours out a healing Spirit …, mending the complex fractures that rend not only their bodies but also their communities.”
― Loida I. Martell-Otero, Latina Evangélicas: A Theological Survey from the Margins

“Salvation is the outpouring of God's Spirit, and therefore of abundant life that gives hope to those without hope, and frees those bound and made powerless by the powers and principalities of our day.”
― Loida I. Martell-Otero, Latina Evangélicas: A Theological Survey from the Margins