Tag: Latin America

In Honor of Samuel Escobar

I am happy to share this invitation to honor the legacy of Samuel Escobar.

Friday, October 10, 2025 | 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Billy Graham Hall, Wilson Suite, Room 432

You are warmly invited to a special afternoon event to celebrate the life, ministry, and enduring legacy of J. Samuel Escobar (1934–2025) — Peruvian theologian, pastor, and leading voice in Latin American evangelicalism. For more than five decades, Dr. Escobar shaped missiological understanding and evangelism trends through his work with the Fraternidad Teológica Latinoamericana, the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, and other global evangelical networks and seminaries.

The program will feature tributes from family members, colleagues, and ministry partners, a presentation of a special double issue of the Journal of Latin American Theology: Christian Reflections from the Latino South, dedicated to Dr. Escobar, and a curated exhibit showcasing highlights from the newly acquired J. Samuel Escobar Papers. A generous gift from the Escobar family, the Escobar Papers include personal correspondence, photographs, and original manuscripts from the 1950s onward. The collection is now housed in the Wheaton Archives & Special Collections and is open for research.

A reception with light refreshments will follow the program.

This event is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact the Wheaton Archives & Special Collections at 630.752.5910 or archives@wheaton.edu.

Good News from Latin America: Christian Reflections on Suffering and Crisis

My readers may or may not know that some friends and I began publishing the Journal of Latin American Theology: Christian Reflections from the Latino South back in 2006. With two issues per year, the Journal has become one of the most important voices of Latin American Christian thinking in the English-speaking world. I have the privilege of being the General Editor of the Journal and I believe this issue is one of the very best. It deals with bringing God’s love to those who live in the midst of suffering, trauma and crisis. For those who are interested, here are the contents.

The Journal of Latin American Theology Volume 18:2

Disease and Healing: The Bible and Today’s World by Edesio Sánchez Cetina

Living from the Resurrection Narrative in the Midst of Speculation and Death by Fabio Salguero Fagoaga

An Interdisciplinary Approach for Supporting Women Displaced by Violence and Affected by COVID-19 by Mary Luz Reyes Bejarano

Pandemic, Trauma, and Lament: A Psycho-Theological and Pastoral Approach to Caregiving and Companioning by Daniel S. Schipani

Keys to Post-Traumatic Coping in the Life of Paul of Tarsus by Luis Cruz-Villalobos

Justice vs. Righteousness: A Contextualized Analysis of “tsedeq” in the KJV (English) and RVR (Spanish) by Esteban M. Voth

Sustaining the Momentum of Theological Education by Dieumeme Noëlliste

Film Review – Waaki by Victor Masayesva by Samuel Lagunas

Book Review – Las huellas del reino de Dios: perspectivas teológicas en América Latina (1970–2000) by Martín Ocaña Flores

Book Review – The Lord Roars: Recovering the Prophetic Voice for Today by M. Daniel Carroll R.

Book Review – Los Profetas: The Prophetic Role of Hispanic Churches in America, ed. Daniel F. Flores

Book Review – Introducción a la teología del Nuevo Mundo by Oscar García-Johnson

Theopoetry – “De las cosas sencillas / Of the Simple Things” by Luis Cruz-Villalobos

Available via Amazon and the ATLA theological data bank.