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THE STUFF GOD IS, WE ARE TOO: The Challenge of Nones and Latinx and the Obstacles that Prevent Our Seeing

Author: Gerardo de Jesús, PhD

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This book is an attempt to see God everywhere and in everyone. I speak specifically to Nones and Latinx, as well as others who have left the church in search of a greater depth to their faith. I seek to reimagine the meaning of sacrament inherited from colonial Christianity and make it personal and contextual, a way of seeing that transforms how we see ourselves, one another, and our stewardship of the earth. More than just a series of childhood church rituals, which for many holds little meaning, I seek to reclaim the notion of sacrament as a visible grace by turning to the ancient practice of contemplation as a faith-consciousness that helps us arrive at a new understanding of what a sacrament is—that is, this book is about recovering a “sacramental spirituality,” a place of inner awareness that helps us to see through new eyes. What you’re looking at is where you’re looking from; and it’s my hope this book helps you to see again, to respond to the diminished sanctity of reality, and to recover the divinity embedded in everything.

Gerardo de Jesús, PhD, is a public theologian and pastoral psychotherapist in private practice in Orlando, Florida. Drawing from his training in Jungian analysis and contemplative spirituality, he weaves spiritual direction and clinical observation in the care of souls. He is the author of Underserved Suffering: A Psychospiritual Autobiography of Postcolonial Faith from the Puerto Rican Diaspora.