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Storytelling: If only I’d had another arm, leg

Sunday, July 26th, 2009

First off, I’d really like to say that having been given the opportunity to report a story over a series of weeks has been as much a first-rate experience as it has been a luxury.

I have no doubt that all of our stories required a great deal of time, care, immersion and effort. And I truly feel that that’s been the case for the one on which I’ve been working–the rise of Pentecostalism within LA’s Central American community.

[Here's blog post concerning the subject I wrote early on into the project.]

This way, I could gradually (and repeatedly) step into Evangelical conventions and various Pentecostal services and missions and Catholic Masses and baptisms in order to better acquaint myself with the subject and my sources.

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