Jeremy Everett was a young Baptist seminary graduate grappling with exactly how to answer his calling — to serve the poor — when he found the answer in a kitchen in Waco, Texas, at a birthday party for a Dominican priest from Peru.
Theologian Gustavo Gutiérrez — the founder of liberation theology — had come to lecture at Baylor University. To the 6-foot, 4-inch Everett, the diminutive priest, now in his 80s, was “like the Latino version of Yoda — wise as all get-out.”
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