S2. Ep 2. Empathy as Translation

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This week, Ideos’ Amar Peterman is joined by Emanuel “Ricky” Padilla, President of World Outspoken, a ministry dedicated to training, consulting, and equipping the Mestizo church for culture-making. Amar and Ricky talk about the mixed, multi-ethnic reality of the church—when congregations are filled with Christians who are “ni aquí, ni allá” (“not from here or from there”).

Ricky speaks to the complex, multi-generational, multi-racial context of the Latin-X church and how World Outspoken is preparing the Mestizo church for cultural change. Amar and Ricky also frame the work of empathy as translation, not only between languages but between worlds; and they discuss what it means to bring our “non-innocent” history into this translation work.