Living as a Child of Immigrants, Liberation Theology & General Revelation w/ Melany del Carpio-Garrett
Melany graciously invites us into her journey as she shares how she embraced her latinidad, developed a deep appreciation of liberation theology and became her truest self.
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Show Notes
Lizzo Lover, Educator, and Child of Peruvian immigrants, Melany del Carpio-Garrett, grew up in predominantly white spaces that signaled to her she might be a little different. She learned to fit in, but always carried a larger view of the world due to her family’s rich culture.
When studying at a predominately white Bible university, she wrestled with Calvinism as a principle theology of the university. In light of the doctrine’s rigidity, she could not reconcile these ideas with who she was, where she came from, and where her loved ones would be going. Soon after, she began to rethink plenty of other ways white evangelicalism had put boundaries around the God she knew to be bigger than what she’d been given.
Melany graciously invites us into her journey as she shares how she embraced her latinidad, developed a deep appreciation of liberation theology and became her truest self.
If you’ve ever turned on a Lizzo song and felt the Spirit move ya, this episode will be just right for you.
Resources:
That Brené Brown quote: “I don’t think I abandoned faith, but I certainly abandoned church in my early 20s, kind of when politics and spirituality got really enmeshed...It didn’t meet my needs anymore... Religion had gone from a belief in faith and mystery to certainty; ‘I’m right, you’re wrong, shut up.’ ...I fell in love with the faith and the mystery piece [but] it became less about faith and mystery, and more about politics and certainty.”
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