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The cross doesn’t obviate suffering but calls us to respond with perfumes of consolation
“While it was yet dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb,” we learn in the Gospel of John. “Yet dark” is an apt description for what we are living through in the age of covid-19, amid so much fear and sorrow. The first Easter is a reminder that many of us come to our morning…
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New York is a place to reason together, Rev. Gabriel A. Salguero of The Lamb’s Church
As an Evangelical pastor in the Lower East Side of Manhattan I’ve received several calls to give my opinion about the building project called Park51 Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero in New York. I have resisted responding for several reasons,
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Rev. Gabriel Salguero: My Living Paradox
After preaching at an evangelical conference for young Latino/a ministers in Florida some time ago, someone asked me, “Gabriel, how would you define yourself?” This question certainly has a myriad of answers but considering the context of my surroundi
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To Pastor, Afterlife Is Where We ‘Learn To Live Together’
First, an evangelical Protestant’s perspective. The Rev. Gabriel Salguero, a pastor of The Lamb’s Church in New York City and president of the National Latino Evangelical Coalition, tells NPR’s Robert Siegel how faith in the afterlife in
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Higher Power: New York’s Most Influential Religious Leaders
Last November, on the day President Obama announced his plan to shield millions of immigrants from deportation, Rev. Gabriel Salguero had a seat on Air Force One. The president of the National Latino Evangelical Coalition, which represents 3,000 churches
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Latino Evangelicals Trending: A Closer Look and What’s Next?
By now many people have read Time magazine’s, “Latino Reformation,” a cover story on the growth of Latino Evangelicals in America. Elizabeth Dias chronicles the growth of Hispanic Evangelicals including both store-front congregations to
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Baltimore Clergy Gather For Peace After Riots in Freddie Gray Case
BALTIMORE – Faith leaders gathered Wednesday to call for peace following Monday night’s riots. Pastor Delman Coates, senior pastor of Mt. Ennon Baptist Church in Clinton and president of the Black Church Center for Justice and Equality, led th
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Baltimore Clergy Gather For Peace After Riots in Freddie Gray Case
BALTIMORE – Faith leaders gathered Wednesday to call for peace following Monday night’s riots. Pastor Delman Coates, senior pastor of Mt. Ennon Baptist Church in Clinton and president of the Black Church Center for Justice and Equality, led th
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Hispanic Evangelicals Call For Criminal Justice Reform
Like millions of families across America, I have seen the effects of both crime and the criminal justice system up close. My father served time in the juvenile detention system. He was addicted to heroin as a young man, came from a highly dysfunctional fa
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Criminal Justice Reform: Breaking the Cycle of Drug Use and Crime
The United States’ criminal justice system faces significant challenges. Over the past twenty-five years, the U.S. prison and jail population reached an all-time high and the number of people on probation and parole doubled. In 2009, nearly seven mi
