Shame, confusion and frustration can bubble up when we wake up to the harmful colonial ideas about faith and leadership learned simply by existing in Western faith spaces.  Many of our ideas about the kingdom of God have been intermingled with ideas of colonization like leaven working its way through the bread we've learned to make during quarantine. 

Marcos Canales joins us this week to talk about his new book “Las Casas on Faithful Witness” which takes a critical look at the life of Father Bartolome De Las Casas and his transition from unjust understandings of God to an integrated and congruent Gospel in the midst of Spanish Colonialism 500 years ago.  Then we reimagined Matthew 4:12-17 and practices of repentance and gospel grounded in solidarity with the marginalized.  If you find yourself struggling with harmful colonial ideas of faith that seem to be incongruent with Jesus… this one’s for you!

Follow Marcos on instagram @mcanales82 to connect personally!  Order Marcos' new book at https://www.amazon.com/Faithful-Witness-Sacred-Spiritual-Classics/dp/1955424071 and learn more about La Fuente Ministries at https://www.paznaz.org/lafuenteministries/ .

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