Episode 9: Cláudio Carvalhaes

November 8, 2015

Cláudio Carvalhaes is associate professor of homiletics and worship at McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago. Born in São Paulo, Brazil, he came to the U.S. as a “reverse missionary” through a partnership between the Presbytery of São Paulo and the Presbytery of Southern New England.

In this episode, Cláudio and Matt discuss liberationist preaching, what it means to be a missionary in the U.S., the unique perspective of immigrant preaching, and the difference between prophetic preaching and moralistic finger-wagging.

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Against killing children

We have become a society of people who cannot prevent our own children from being killed in their classrooms—and who do not much mind the killing of other people’s children by weapons of war.

by Wendell Berry