What's So Blessed About Being Poor?An inspiring exploration of how happiness and holiness can exist in the midst of poverty and illness. This inspiring story of two lay women who have chosen to live among and minister to the poor in East Africa is authored by a Maryknoll lay missioner and a New York attorney who left her law practice to become a lay missioner with the Franciscans. Susan Slavin first met Coralis Salvador while volunteering as a lawuer working in a justice and peace

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the Catholic priest Henri Nouwen earned the adjective "beloved" with his penetratingly honest meditations on the Christian life

Espín is professor of systematic theology at the University of San Diego and director of the Center for the Study of Latino/a Catholicism

He is a Visiting Professor at the Center for Social Concerns at the University of Notre Dame

Reclaiming Spirituality

including at Yale and Harvard

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But vocation

and least among us -- are at the very heart of the mission of Jesus Christ

including from the Rig Veda

He is the author of many works

this book highlights the core themes of systematic theology from the perspective of liberation theology