Open Plaza 6/26/23 Open Plaza 6/26/23

Hold It Together and Keep Going

Erasmo Guerra reflects on two decades of writing from his many borderlands

Open Plaza 6/12/23 Open Plaza 6/12/23

Intervenxions

Selections from the online publication of The Latinx Project at NYU

Open Plaza 5/22/23 Open Plaza 5/22/23

Ode to OLG, San Bernardino

liz gonzález presents poetry and prose that celebrate Our Lady of Guadalupe and life in Southern California

Open Plaza 4/17/23 Open Plaza 4/17/23

American Jesus

Richard Vargas presents excerpts from his five collections of poetry

Open Plaza 4/3/23 Open Plaza 4/3/23

Far and Near

Rev. Dr. Harold J. Recinos presents excerpts from his latest collection of poetry The Looking Glass

Open Plaza 3/27/23 Open Plaza 3/27/23

Sacred Fields, Sacred Nostalgia

Dr. Lloyd D. Barba presents excerpts from his recent book on Mexican Pentecostal farmworkers in California

Open Plaza 3/20/23 Open Plaza 3/20/23

Turn Back and Look

Seminarian Amanda Calderón gives voice to Lot’s Wife

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Theologies That Resemble Our People

Emanuel Padilla on theology, cultural memory, and Latina memes

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Virgin of Altagracia Medallions

Dr. Jennifer A. Baez on how the popular votives helped model black piety and community membership within a hierarchical socioracial order in 18th-century Dominican Republic

Open Plaza 1/16/23 Open Plaza 1/16/23

Marking Time

José A. Pérez presents ten poems

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The Lord Roars

Dr. M. Daniel Carroll Rodas presents excerpts from his new book on recovering the prophetic voice for today

Open Plaza 11/14/22 Open Plaza 11/14/22

Songs of Songs

Stephen Adubato listens for the sacred in secular music

Open Plaza 10/31/22 Open Plaza 10/31/22

The Days You Bring

Rev. Dr. Harold J. Recinos presents excerpts from his newest collection of poetry

Open Plaza 10/10/22 Open Plaza 10/10/22

Penitential Pilgrimage

Anthropologists Dr. Valentina Napolitano and Dr. Kristin Norget on Pope Francis, reconciliation, and the state

Open Plaza 10/3/22 Open Plaza 10/3/22

Thank You, Earth Angels

Jackie Cruz recounts their ways

Open Plaza 9/12/22 Open Plaza 9/12/22

The Tip of the Pyramid

El Librotraficante Tony Diaz presents excerpts from his new book on Cultivating Community Cultural Capital

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Fruit of the Vine

Wine columnist Gus Clemens offers notes on sacramental/altar and kosher, mevushal wines

Open Plaza 7/11/22 Open Plaza 7/11/22

The Needle and the Thread

Victor Mancilla and Jim Nikas on their forthcoming film about the Jumano-Apache people and 17th-century Franciscan nun Sor María de Ágreda

Open Plaza 7/4/22 Open Plaza 7/4/22

37 Weeks and 38 Hours

Elyssa Salinas-Lazarski on pregnancy, labor, and choice as sacred spaces

Open Plaza 6/27/22 Open Plaza 6/27/22

Arena: A House MUSIC-al

Abel Alvarado presents three scenes from the musical about a gay man growing up in a devout Apostolic family in 1990s Los Angeles

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