Peacemakers commemorate Global Baptist Peace Conference
On January 22, peacemakers met to celebrate at the Baptist University of Cali, Colombia, to discuss experiences and memories of the Global Peace Conference held there in July 2019. It was a space for participants to recognize and reconnect after 5 years with the aim of listening to peacemakers in their constant commitment to peace rooted in justice.
Tell me what concept of God you have, and I will tell you who you are.
From early on in the Old Testament, the name of God is unpronounceable: YHWH. Adding to this, the commandment “Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain” means that no one referred to God by name but as the Most High, Almighty, and more.
Caribbean Theology - Day 3
The Caribbean is much more than sun, sand, beaches, and palm trees. It is a mosaic of languages, races, ideologies, cultural heritages, economic organizations, and religious backgrounds. Its population represents a group of forced migrants that had to adopt new identities. Like a phoenix Caribbean people emerge, in the middle of a society that speaks English, French, Dutch, Papiamento or French Creole languages, to reflect critically on their life through the lens of their faith.
Decolonizing Theology and Gender - Day 3
A true decolonization of God isn't one that deconstructs colonial gender categories and invents other categories that attempt to contain people within their bodies. While I appreciate efforts to talk about healthier masculinities, I also denounce that such articulations continue to uphold colonial gender labels that seek to confine people within the colonial logic, forcing individuals to define themselves as a particular thing. These "decolonizing" processes lack the essential element of imagination that thinks, dreams, and articulates a God who doesn't need to configure human beings under any gender definition but recognizes them as creations of love expressing the diversity of all that is divine.
Decolonization - Day 3
Decolonizing theology involves a process of critique, dismantling, and reimagining of dominant theological interpretations and practices, with the aim of promoting a more just and inclusive theology based on the diversity of our contexts and life experiences. A decolonized and decolonizing theology is not complicit with oppression, but above all, is a Christian theology and spirituality conscious of its history of domination and exclusion and resists and reimagines differently.
Feminist Theology: Demanding Justice From Our Faith - Day 2
Feminist theologians began to work supporting the struggle for equity and dignity for women. The goal is to rescue women from the unfavorable situation they suffered both in social and intellectual life, as well as in religious life. For this reason, they embarked on a reconstruction project with the purpose of decentralizing masculine discourses and reinterpreting myths of female representations that fostered discrimination and did not respond to the reality of flesh-and-blood women.
Nature vs. Humanity - Day 2
Understanding the relationship between humanity and nature in a way that decentralizes this separation between is vital in the current world, one which still largely maintains that nature is a resource for and in service of human production and development. If human-nature relationships do not exist separately, then the ways in which people identify and relate are also influenced by the ways in which nature has been exploited for capital and development. In other words, the violation and abuse of nature is a violation and abuse of humanity itself.