Common Questions about LBHS
Who was Luisa Bosques?
The bisabuela of co-founder Nathan Luis Cartagena, Luisa Bosques was a committed Boricua Christian who journeyed with God as a colonial subject within a racist, patriarchal, ecosystem-destroying, capitalist empire.
For more on her story, see our "About US" page.
What do you mean by "Shalom"?
As Euro-American theologian Walter Brueggemann observes in Peace, shalom is a controlling vision that houses a cluster of words “required to express its many dimensions and subtle nuances: love, loyalty, truth, grace, salvation, justice, blessings, [and] righteousness.” This vision "encompasses all reality" and therefore "embraces all creation."
This encompassing embrace has a special concern for marginalized and oppressed people. As Cherokee theologian Randy S. Woodley writes in Indigenous Theology and the Western Worldview: A Decolonized Approach to Christian Doctrine:
"You judge the measure of God's shalom by how the widows and the orphans are treated (Deut. 10:18; 27: 19; Isa 1:17; Jer. 22:3; Zech. 7:10; James 1:27)...[which is] exactly what Jesus was teaching. His Kingdom was a shalom kingdom...[which focused upon] the powerless, the poor, the oppressed, the disenfranchised, and the marginalized (Matt. 23:4; Mark 10:21; Luke 14:13)."
For more about our understanding of shalom, see our writings here.
Is LBHS affiliated with a Christian Denomination?
No. LBHS is an ecumenical community collaborating with Christians and Christian organizations from a wide range of denominational and non-denominational traditions.