Birth of a Church not-on-disco-sale Margaret Swedish served for 25

Margaret Swedish served for 25 years as co-coordinator

Author of Once Upon a Time in Africa and Small Christian Communities Today

is Professor of Biblical Hermeneutics at the University of Birmingham

The Christian Century

Birth of a Church not-on-disco-sale Margaret Swedish served for 25In 1964, Father Joe Nangle, a young American Franciscan priest, was assigned to found a new parish in a middle class neighborhood in Lima, Peru. Birth of a Church tells the inspiring story of his journey with that parish, in an era of great change and promise in the church. In the eleven years Fr. Nangle served in Lima, the world church felt the impact of Vatican II and the Latin American church, the bishops' conference in Medellin. Nangle tells the