CROSSROADS - WHERE SPIRIT AND ACTIVISM MEET
Note: This program is no longer active on the WBAI schedule

Fridays at 5:00pm

Hosted by: Reverend Samuel Cruz



The program is a long form interview / conversation program.  Reverend Cruz will interview high profile activists whose  activism is informed by their spirituality.

Associate Professor of Church and Society at Union Theological Seminary, Dr. Cruz has also been a lecturer in the Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies Department at Rutgers University.

His publications include two books, Masked Africanisms: Puerto Rican Pentecostalism (Kendall Hunt Publishing, 2005) as well as Christianity and Culture in the City: A Post Colonial Approach(Lexington Books, 2013), he is currently working on a book project "Latinas and the LGBT community: Implications for the Church and Beyond. 

He has published columns on civil rights for El Diario la Prensa and The New York Daily News, most recently advocating for civil rights for the LGBT community, humane immigration policies, opposing "Stop and Frisk" police practices and critiquing the prison industrial complex. 

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