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Help My Unbelief, Brett C. Hoover
Lost And Found: Immigrant Conversion Stories, The New Evangelization, And Parish Life, Brett C. Hoover
Lost And Found: Immigrant Conversion Stories, The New Evangelization, And Parish Life, Brett C. Hoover
Brett Hoover
The author reflects on a conversion narrative that emerged in the context of a yearlong ethnographic study of a Catholic parish in the Midwest. The study was intended to uncover the practices and understandings of parish life in a shared parish, that is, a parish with two or more distinct cultural communities with their own masses and ministries but sharing the same parish facilities. The “lost and found” narrative of conversion that emerged in the parish’s Latino/a community has roots in Latin American manifestations of the new evangelization but has taken particular form here in the United States. It frames …
Human Capacities And The Problem Of Universally Equal Dignity: Two Philosophical Test Cases And A Theistic Response, Brett C. Hoover
Human Capacities And The Problem Of Universally Equal Dignity: Two Philosophical Test Cases And A Theistic Response, Brett C. Hoover
Brett Hoover
No abstract provided.
Memory And Ministry: Young Adult Nostalgia, Immigrant Amnesia, Brett C. Hoover
Memory And Ministry: Young Adult Nostalgia, Immigrant Amnesia, Brett C. Hoover
Brett Hoover
A problem with memory occurs in two ways that directly affect pastoral issues: when we reconstruct our history as a community of faith in a way that romanticizes the past and anathematizes the present (nostalgia) or when we reconstruct the past eliminating crucial information we would rather ignore (amnesia), particular for ministry to and with the young and immigrants. Drawing on J. B. Metz’s approach to Christian memory, ministers can engage the dangerous memory in a way that coincides with the needs of young people and our nation’s newest residents.
Blaming The Stranger: Parishes Must Resist The Myth Of The Latino Threat, Brett C. Hoover
Blaming The Stranger: Parishes Must Resist The Myth Of The Latino Threat, Brett C. Hoover
Brett Hoover
No abstract provided.
Virtual Church For Young Adults, Brett C. Hoover, Michael Hayes
Virtual Church For Young Adults, Brett C. Hoover, Michael Hayes
Brett Hoover
No abstract provided.