The Hispanic Theological Initiative at Princeton Theological Seminary Presents Lectureship on “The Latino Agenda: In Peace and In War”

Princeton, NJ, June 22, 2007–The Hispanic Theological Initiative (HTI) will present their annual lectureship as part of their eleventh summer workshop on Saturday, June 30 at 7:30 p.m. in the Center for Continuing Education’s Cooper Conference Room in the Erdman Center, 20 Library Place in Princeton.

The speakers include Carlos Conde, an award-winning journalist and a Pulitzer Prize nominee, a former Washington and Latin America news correspondent, and a former communications aide in the Nixon White House. Conde currently writes a column for The Hispanic Outlookin Higher Education Magazine. Other speakers are Dr. Renata Furst-Lambert, a faculty member of Assumption Seminary in San Antonio, Texas; Dr. Hjamil Martínez-Vázquez, assistant professor of religion at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas, who has written on issues of historiography, theory, and postcolonizing criticism, and is currently working on a manuscript about Latino/a Muslims in the United States; and The Reverend Luis A. Pérez, hospice chaplain with Hospice of the Comforter in Altamonte Springs, Florida. Pérez has served as chaplain in the armed forces, including a tour of duty in Iraq, and received several awards and medals for his service. He is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ and has been engaged in the areas of intentional interim ministries for the last fourteen years among United Church of Christ and Presbyterian Church (USA) congregations. He also teaches Old and New Testament studies in Asbury Theological Seminary’s Latino/Latina Studies Program. All four speakers will address the topic “The Latino Agenda: In Peace and In War.”

The lectures will be followed by a reception in the Erdman Center. The lectureship is free and open to the public. For more information, contact HTI at 609.252.1721.     

The Hispanic Theological Initiative is an innovative program created in response to the need voiced by religious leaders and pastors in Latino/a communities throughout the United States for more, and more highly qualified, Latino/a candidates for faculty and administrative positions at seminaries and universities. The program provides doctoral-level grants, mentoring, and workshops for such candidates. HTI is funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts, by Lilly Endowment Inc., and by Princeton Theological Seminary.