We thank you so much for all of your comments, please keep them coming! Today was a full day, an emotional day. Here’s the scoop, dear reader… You know what’s weird? Hearing someone proclaim your native country to be an “imperial nation” to your face. That’s what happened yesterday during our history of El Salvador [...]
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El Salvador Day 02: Two Red Books on Holy Ground, the High Price of Immigration, and Meeting Jon Sobrino
Posted in El Salvador 2010, tagged chapel, coffee, econonmics, immigration, jesuit, luther, martyr, meeting sobrino, red books, romero, sobrino, vatican ii, violence on 03.20.2010 | 2 Comments »
El Salvador Day 01: Airports, Buses, and Arrivals
Posted in El Salvador 2010, tagged bus, El Salvador 2010, espousa, fmln, fourteen families, guacamole, guest house, international flight, Pop´s ice cream, reagan, romero, sobrino, travel drama on 03.18.2010 | 4 Comments »
I’ll start off by saying the wifi internet access in our guest house isn’t doing much for us (okay, it isn’t doing anything). My posts will come as frequently as possible, pending other internet access is found here and there. And with that, on to the main event… Our trip to El Salvador began this [...]
Our Group T-Shirts Are Ready
Posted in El Salvador 2010, tagged romero, Sesame Street, sobrino, Spanish, t-shirt on 03.17.2010 | 2 Comments »
Jackie F. has passed along to me the image of the t-shirts our group will have during the trip. Click the pic to see it enlarged: The only Spanish I know is what I learned on Sesame Street over twenty years ago. Anyone care to enlighten me on what the t-shirt reads in the comments [...]
Pre-Trip Reading: Witnesses to the Kingdom
Posted in El Salvador 2010, tagged job sobrino, martyr, martyrdom, romero, satire, sobrino, witnesses to the kingdom, writing style on 03.15.2010 | Leave a Comment »
Students going to El Salvador have been assigned a handful of books to read before the trip and after the trip, each requiring a brief written reaction piece. Here’s one of mine: Witnesses to the Kingdom: Martyrs of El Salvador and the Crucified Peoples by Jon Sobrino A figurehead of liberation theology, Jon Sobrino is [...]
