Dear Friends, As you may know by now, our esteemed author and friend, Gustavo Gutierrez, died last night, October 22, at the age of 96, in Lima. He had been ill for some time. Gustavo was not only the "father" of liberation theology, but truly the cornerstone of the Orbis program. In 1973 we published the English translation of A Theology of Liberation, which Christianity Today named as one of the 100 most important theological works of the twentieth century. This inaugurated a whole program of works by the greatest generation of Latin American theologians: Gustavo himself, Jon Sobrino, Jose Combin, Leonardo Boff, and many others. The highwater point of these imports was probably the volume Mysterium Liberationis edited by Jon Sobrino and the martyr Ignacio Ellacuria.  But Gustavo continued to produce books. The...