RESOURCES

Tools for learning, leading, and living your legacy.

Books & Recommended Reading

Academic Work & Primary Sources

Sermons & Preaching Tools

Music & Cultural Resources

Podcasts & Webinars

This page offers a curated collection of resources that, while not exclusively about the women featured here, help frame the broader context of Latino/a Pentecostalism, its roots, resilience, theology, and impact.

Whether you’re a student, pastor, researcher, or simply someone hungry to know more, these resources will deepen your appreciation for the movement these women helped shape and the faith that shaped them.

We hope these resources serve as companions in your journey of learning, honoring, and remembering.

BOOKS & RECOMMENDED READING

Book cover for “Latino Pentecostals in America: Faith and Politics in Action” by Gastón Espinosa, featuring worshipers praying with raised hands.
Book cover for “Latino Pentecostal Identity: Evangelical Faith, Self, and Society” by Arlene M. Sánchez Walsh, featuring a sepia illustration and archival photo.
Book cover for Beyond the Temple: Pentecostal Spirituality as a Lived Ecclesiology by Wilmer Estrada-Carrasquillo
Book cover for Faith and Power: Latino Religious Politics Since 1945, edited by Felipe Hinojosa, Maggie Elmore, and Sergio M. González, with a cross and colorful woven textiles.
Book cover for “Walk with the People: Latino Ministry in the United States” by Juan Francisco Martínez, featuring an orange and yellow abstract textured background.
Book cover for “Seek the Peace of the City: Reflections on Urban Ministry” by Eldin Villafañe, with a foreword by Harvey Cox.
Book cover for “Latino Religions and Civic Activism in the United States,” featuring a black-and-white photograph of an adult and child carrying a large cross, edited by Gastón Espinosa, Virgilio Elizondo, and Jesse Miranda.
Spanish book cover titled "Introducción al Pentecostalismo: Manda Fuego Señor" by Eldin Villafañe on a purple marbled background.
Book cover for Orlando Costas's Christ Outside the Gate: Mission Beyond Christendom, featuring a barbed-wire fence silhouette against a blue background.
Book cover for Robert Chao Romero’s “Five Centuries of Latino/a Social Justice, Theology, and Identity,” featuring a stylized golden sun and colorful church illustrations.
Book cover for "Towards a Pentecostal Theology of Praxis: A Case Study" by John Mark Roebuck, featuring clasped elderly hands on a blanket.
Book cover for "Liberty to the Captives: Our Call to Minister in a Captive World" by Raymond Rivera, featuring a white dove flying above raised hands.
Book cover for “The Spirit, Pathos and Liberation: Toward an Hispanic Pentecostal Theology” by Samuel Solivan, featuring a dove illustration on a teal background.
Book cover for "Mama Leo: Walking in the Miraculous," featuring a woman sitting in a grassy field and authored by Dr. Cedric Rousseau and Dr. Kittim Silva Bermúdez.
Book cover for Daniel Wolpert's "Looking Inward, Living Outward: The Spiritual Practice of Social Transformation," with a Brian D. McLaren endorsement.
Book cover for “When the Spirit Is Your Inheritance: Reflections on Borderlands Pentecostalism” by Jonathan Calvillo, featuring bold cream lettering on an abstract orange and red background.

SERMONS & PREACHING RESOURCES

Portrait of an older woman wearing glasses and a purple floral blouse

Sermons by Rev. Aimee García Cortese

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Smiling woman with a high bun hairstyle wearing a black lace top and earrings

Sermons Bishop Dr. Rosa Maria Silva

Portrait of a smiling older woman with short dark hair wearing a red blazer against a blue-gray background.

Sermons by Rev. Julie Ramirez

PODCASTS & WEBINARS

ACADEMIC WORK & PRIMARY SOURCES

Ada María Isasi-Díaz, in Mujerista Theology (p. 74), describes organic intellectuals as everyday people, particularly Latinas, whose lived experiences, cultural knowledge, and communal wisdom generate critical theological insight beyond traditional academic spaces. These are not scholars confined to ivory towers, but theologians shaped in the streets, kitchens, pulpits, and storefront churches.

The academic works featured here, spanning liberation theology, Mujerista theology, intersectionality, and progressive Pentecostalism, provide language and frameworks that articulate what these women knew in their bones. Their ministries are not simply moments in history but case studies in embodied, Spirit-led theology. These writings help honor their legacy and validate their voices as essential contributors to theological discourse, even if they never wrote a single paper.

MUSIC & CULTURAL RESOURCES

The Soundtrack of our Faith: Coritos and Pentecostal Memory

We highlight twO clip from Israel & New Breed’s recent project Coritos de Fuego, a historic preservation effort in itself that honors the rich spiritual legacy of these songs. His revival of coritos is more than nostalgic, it reminds us that preserving our sound is part of preserving our story.

These songs were passed down in storefront churches, sung in tongues, and carried through the diaspora. They were fire, resistance, and refuge. They are part of the legacy of the Hidden Figures we honor.