In this episode we are featuring more work from participantsof the Baptist Scholars International Roundtable which you will hear often as BSIR for short. We’ve had some episodes highlighting BSIR before and you can find links to some of those in the episode description. Joao Chavez will be ourguest host for this episode.

Dr. Chavez is a professor is an Assistant Professor of the History of Religions in the Americans at Baylor University. He specializes in the history of religion in the Americas, US Protestantism’s impact in Latin America, and Latin American/Latinx religious networks in the U.S. He has authored several books, including Migrational Religion and many others. He’s also a co-director of BSIR. He speaks with a researcher with BSIR, Grace Vargas.

Dr. Grace Vargas is currently an Assistant Professor of Latinx Religious Traditions at Texas Christian University. Inspired by Rubem Alves, Dr. Vargas sees the task of history as one of recovery and sacramental dissemination. Her work centers on the history of Christianity in Latin America, particularly the Protestant Church.