Latino Authors

Kristel Acevedo

Tue, 27 Aug 2024 14:17:14 GMT

Kristel Acevedo

Jared E. Alcántara

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 20:26:59 GMT

Jared E. Alcántara (PhD, Princeton Theological Seminary) is associate professor of preaching at Baylor University's George W. Truett Theological Seminary in Waco, Texas. An ordained Baptist minister, he has served as a youth pastor, associate pastor, and teaching pastor in Illinois, Massachusetts, Oregon, and New Jersey.

Prior to Truett, he served as an adjunct instructor at Gordon-Conwell's Hispanic Ministries Program in New York City, as a doctoral teaching fellow in homiletics at Princeton Theological Seminary, and from 2014-18, he was an associate professor of homiletics at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois. Alcántara's teaching and research is in homiletics, with interests in global south preaching, cultural and intercultural engagement, and the role of race and ethnicity in preaching, especially in Latino/a and African American contexts. He lives in the Waco area with his wife, Jennifer, and their three daughters.

Emilio Alvarez

Wed, 26 Jan 2022 20:56:16 GMT

Emilio Alvarez (PhD, Fordham University) is the presiding bishop of the Union of Charismatic Orthodox Churches, a communion that embraces the one holy, catholic, apostolic tradition. He is also associate provost for lifelong learning at Asbury Theological Seminary.

Quina Aragon

Thu, 28 May 2026 15:32:06 GMT

Quina Aragon

René Breuel

Sun, 10 May 2026 01:24:10 GMT

René Breuel

David E. Briones

Thu, 14 Jun 2018 18:39:34 GMT

David E. Briones (PhD, Durham) is associate professor of New Testament at Westminster Theological Seminary (Philadelphia), author of Paul's Financial Policy, and coeditor of Paul and Seneca in Dialogue.

Noel Castellanos

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 20:20:49 GMT

Noel Castellanos has worked in full-time ministry in Latino urban communities since 1982, serving in youth ministry, church planting, advocacy, and community development in San Francisco, San Jose, and Chicago. He has served as chief executive officer of Christian Community Development Association (CCDA) and was the founding pastor of Chicago’s La Villita Community Church.

In addition to being a popular speaker, Noel mentors young leaders across the United States. He was appointed to serve on President Obama's Council for Faith and Neighborhood Partnerships and has served as the chaplain for the Chicago Cubs. He has a deep passion to serve and invest in the lives of leaders committed to serving the poor.

Noel is the coauthor of A Heart for the Community and New Models for Urban and Suburban Ministry and has contributed to various other books and publications including Where the Cross Meets the Street, Deep Justice in a Broken World, A Heart for the City, and Crazy Enough to Care. He and his wife, Marianne, have three children and make their home in the barrio of La Villita in Chicago.

Christine A. Colón

Fri, 08 Feb 2019 17:58:15 GMT

Christine A. Colón (PhD, University of California at Davis) is professor of English at Wheaton College. She is the author of Joanna Baillie and the Art of Moral Influence and Writing for the Masses: Dorothy L. Sayers and the Victorian Literary Tradition. She is also the coauthor of Singled Out: Why Celibacy Must Be Reinvented in Today's Church.

Orlando Crespo

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 19:11:57 GMT

Orlando Crespo is national director of InterVarsity Latino Fellowship (LAFE). He has worked with InterVarsity since 1987, first as a campus staff member at Hunter College and City College in New York City, New York, and then as an area director for a group of colleges in New York City. He was one of the founders of New Life in the Bronx Church, and he still serves there as an associate pastor. He is currently working on a graduate degree in theology.

Mikel Del Rosario

Thu, 02 Jan 2025 20:53:39 GMT

Mikel Del Rosario

Miguel G. Echevarría

Thu, 13 Nov 2025 19:39:12 GMT

Miguel G. Echevarría

Samuel Escobar

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 19:12:47 GMT

Samuel Escobar, a native of Peru and a leading Latin American theologian, was one of the key participants in the 1974 International Congress on World Evangelization at Lausanne, Switzerland. He is professor emeritus of missiology at Palmer Theological Seminary and a past president of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students. His books include The New Global Mission and La Palabra: Vida de la Iglesia.

Oscar García-Johnson

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 20:29:40 GMT

Oscar García-Johnson is associate professor of theology and Latino/a studies and assistant provost for the Center for the Study of Hispanic Church and Community at Fuller Theological Seminary. An ordained Baptist minister, he has also served as a regional minister with the American Baptist Churches of Los Angeles, and his books include Conversaciones Teológicas del Sur Global Americano, coedited;Theology Without Borders, coauthored with William Dyrness; and The Mestizo/a Community of the Spirit.

Justo L. González

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 20:32:11 GMT

Justo L. González (PhD, Yale University) is an ordained United Methodist minister, a retired professor of historical theology and author of the highly praised three-volume History of Christian Thought and the two-volume The Story of Christianity. He previously taught at the Evangelical Seminary of Puerto Rico and the Candler School of Theology of Emory University. Besides his continued research and publication, he spends most of his energy promoting the theological education of Latino and Latina leaders.

Marlena Graves

Fri, 09 Nov 2018 18:45:45 GMT

Marlena Graves (MDiv, Northeastern Seminary) is a writer and adjunct professor at Winebrenner Theological Seminary. She is the author of The Way Up Is Down, Forty Days on Being a Nine, and A Beautiful Disaster.

Marlena is a graduate of the Renovaré Institute, and she has been a bylined writer for Christianity Today, (in)courage, womenleaders.com, and Our Daily Bread. She has also worked at Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC). She lives with her husband and three daughters in Toledo, Ohio.

Read her article on what it's like to be an Enneagram Nine at Enneagram Today.

Michael Hidalgo

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 20:08:50 GMT

Michael Hidalgo is the lead pastor of Denver Community Church, which under his leadership has grown from forty people to over 2,000. With the ONE Campaign and Malaria No More, Michael has addressed thousands nationally. He is the author of Unlost: Being Found by the One We Are Looking For and writes regularly for Relevant Magazine. Michael, his wife, and three children live in Denver, Colorado.

José Humphreys

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 20:37:19 GMT

The Reverend José Humphreys is a facilitator and pastor of Metro Hope Covenant Church, a multiethnic and multicultural church in East Harlem, New York City. Humphreys is involved in shalom-making in New York City through facilitating conversation, contemplation, and action across social, economic, cultural, and theological boundaries.

Norlan Josué Hernández Blandón

Tue, 12 May 2026 23:12:08 GMT

Norlan Josué Hernández Blandón

Tanita Tualla Maddox

Fri, 06 Dec 2024 16:27:33 GMT

Tanita Tualla Maddox

Juan F. Martinez

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 19:30:44 GMT

Juan Francisco Martínez (PhD, Fuller Theological Seminary) has served as vice president for diversity and international ministries, director of the Center for the Study of Hispanic Church and Community, and professor of Hispanic studies and pastoral leadership at Fuller Theological Seminary. His recent books include The Story of Latino Protestants in the United States.