Apostles of Change - a podcast by HTI Open Plaza

Dr. Felipe Hinojosa grew up in Brownsville, on the Texas-Mexico border. Steeped in the work of Iglesia Menonita del Cordero, where his father was pastor, he saw early on “the need to dream collectively, as a community." In this episode, Jorge Juan Rodríguez V talks to Dr. Hinojosa about his newest book, 'Apostles of Change: Latino Radical Politics, Church Occupations, and the Fight to Save the Barrio' (University of Texas Press, 2021). During the American urban crisis of the late 1960s, religious institutions were undergoing fundamental change against the backdrop of the Black and Brown Power movements, which challenged economic inequality and white supremacy. Apostles of Change maps the Latino freedom movements in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, and Houston. Dr. Hinojosa argues that understanding the history of these radical politics is essential to understanding the dynamic changes in Latino religious groups from the late 1960s to the early 1980s.

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