Category: El Salvador
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The “Chatarrería”
Many years ago I found myself standing in a San Salvadoran “chatarrería,” a junkyard. I was flanked by the now late Michael Bonderer, a nicotine-addicted, four-letter-word-dropping, endless-coffee-drinking, recovering-alcoholic who had stumbled his way into leading a faith-based NGO, putting roofs over the heads of Central America’s poor. This chatarrería had been abandoned by the city, […]
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“I Give My Life For All”
Announced just days ago, later this year, Pope Francis will lead a canonization mass that will declare Father Oscar Romero a saint. Being a fussy Protestant, I have little to say about the official policies the Roman church follows to arrive at such conclusions. But as a longtime admirer of Romero, I am pleased. A […]
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For Michael
This post is about a long-time friend, Michael Bonderer, a missionary in El Salvador, who is in grave condition with pneumonia in a San Salvador hospital. Yesterday Zuze Bonderer reached out to a number of us here in the United States in an effort, if possible, to get her husband and our friend home to […]