Jose Humphreys

Mayra and I had the privilege of co-presenting at the NACSW’s 55th Convention and training. It’s the a great thing to have convergent interests with a spouse. It’s our second “tag-team” at this convention, and the training was on: The Relational-Cultural Model: Facilitating a “Live Encounter” With Culturally Diverse Student Populations. While the convention [...]

I found it at Dry Bones Dance.
The next time you are tempted to swallow your truth, speak it instead. Everything you are afraid of will happen, but you will eventually fall in love with the sound of your own integrity.
-Naomi Wolf

One of my professors at seminary said this:
“We don’t conceive what the church really is until we see it without budgets and buildings.”

A challenge to “being” church…
Besides house churches, and reconfigured forms of church, what would this look like in our world today?
jose h.

Congress will debate as early as Wednesday on how much money should be cut from the budgets of health care, nutrition assistance, and other vital services for poor and working families.They will decide how much – up to $70 billion – they will cut taxes for the richest people in America. In Washington, this [...]

Theomoments has a series of great posts on “Living on the hyphen”, jazz theology, and cultural identity. He asks:
Are you an American or a hyphenated-American? Why?
I’m definitely on this hyphen: American, Mulatto, Afro-Latino, bicultural, etc. Liz also has a post on the amalgamation of being “Blatina”.
jh

Over the weekend, I had the privilege of co-organizing a training for Catholics and Protestants through an initiative called Networks of Faith. This is a partnership between Esperanza USA and the National Catholic Council for Hispanic Ministry. The project provides an opportunity for six Catholic, and six Protestant organizations to network, build community, and [...]

This is from the Gotham Gazette

Free Parking at Meters on Sundays
The City Council voted 42 to 2 yesterday to override a veto by Mayor Bloomberg and enact a new law doing away with parking meter rules on Sundays. The change, which takes effect in 30 days and will affect 32,000 curbside spots and 4,500 spaces [...]

It’s encouraging to see countries continually assist one another in reflief efforts. Below is a snippet from CNN on the global communities’ response to the quake in Islamabad.
Pakistan says it has been overwhelmed by the disaster, but the international community is beginning to come through after President Gen. Pervez Musharraf pleaded for helicopters to [...]

As an American Latino with roots in Pentectostalism, I realize hermeneutics, or the way we interpret scriptures, is one of the starting points for building bridges of understanding. The age old question of “What do we see when we read?” continues to challenge the church, for we know how historically the bible has often been [...]

Mayra and I praying over children 2 Sundays ago at the church plant we’re a part of. It was a back-to-school prayer gathering.
There are more pics here.