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Tag: Brazil

Jesus’s Table in Christofacist Brazil

Currently, for most Brazilians, Christian commensality is an almost impractical challenge: there is no bread or wine, no communion. As Christians, we have a responsibility to ask ourselves what it means to share Christ’s table in this context, even though we still have a long way to go.

Race and “Corruption” in Brazil

If evil is the privation or perversion of a good, the real evil in the old-new Brazilian meaning of “corruption” is the dereliction of the divine goodness in the human neighbor and the nonfeasance neglect of God’s living presence amid the oppressed.