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Miguel De La Torre

‘Full-Quiver’ Theology Appeals to Race

December 14, 2005 by Miguel De La Torre

In a July 27 column in Baptist Press, Al Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (my alma mater) insists that couples who choose childlessness are guilty of “rebellion against parenthood [that] represents nothing less than an absolute revolt against God’s design.” He bases his…

Illiterate Ethicist

March 30, 2005 by Miguel De La Torre

My mother was illiterate and never had a chance to go to school. She fled Cuba for the United States during the political turbulence of 1958 with her infant son. What my mother lacked in formal education she made up for in street smarts. She,…

When the Bible Is Used For Hate

February 2, 2005 by Miguel De La Torre

Are you ready, kids? Whoooo lives in a pineapple under the sea? SpongeBob SquarePants! Absorbent and yellow and porous is he. SpongeBob SquarePants! But wait, this silly frolicking sponge is really a sexual pervert teaching our innocent children to be pro-homosexual–at least according to James…

Is U.S. ‘Purveyor of Violence’?

August 28, 2003 by Miguel De La Torre

The United States has given the world the gift of noble concepts like democracy, and it has the potential to be a light to a hurting world. While appreciating what this country offers the rest of humanity, I refuse to worship this culture as though…

2013 – 2017

July 1, 2003 by Miguel De La Torre

2017  Oct 17, 2017   Time for Me to Say: #MeToo Sept 28, 2017 Anti-Semitism & Criticism of Israel are not the Same Aug 18, 2017  Keeping the White House White July 27, 2017  No, I am not an Angry Latino June 13, 2017  Interfaith Relations and…

2010-2012

June 1, 2003 by Miguel De La Torre

2012 Dec 31, 2012   Leap Off the Fiscal Cliff Dec 27, 2012   When Food Oppresses Dec 10, 2012   Binders of Hispanics Nov 9, 2012     Tea Party Cost GOP Nov 5, 2012     What Election Day Won’t Fix Nov 1, 2012     Why No Moral…

2007-2009

May 1, 2003 by Miguel De La Torre

2009 Dec 10, 2009   How to Determine When War is Just or Unjust Nov 23, 2009  Why Christ’s Euro-American Image Afflicts Hispanics Oct 12, 2009   No Samaritans Allowed: U.S. Prohibit Helping Migrants Oct 1, 2009     Who’s Really Hurt by America’s Travel Ban to Cuba? Sept…

2003 – 2006

March 1, 2003 by Miguel De La Torre

2006 Dec 28, 2006   God and Country Dec 13, 2006   The Chickens Come Home to Roost Nov 2, 2006     What I Learned from Tommy Oct 25, 2006   Their Terrorist and Ours Oct 2, 2006      Baptists and Alcohol: What Would Jesus Do? Sept 30,…