Rev. Dr. Miguel A. De La Torre
Religion Professor - Author - Scholar Activist

Recent Articles

2010

March 2, 2010 - Breaking Barriers: Reading the Bible in Spanish

January 26, 2010 - Why a Journal on Race, Ethnicity, and Religion?

January 20, 2010 - Why is Pat Robertoson So Quick to Condemn Haiti?

January 6, 2010 - Lessons from Niebuhr Put Obama at Odds with the Poor

January 3, 2010 - Why a Journal Like This?

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2009


Dec 10, 2009 - How to Determine When War is Just or Unjust

Dec 2, 2009 - Who's the Real Enemy of Immigration Reform

Nov 23, 2009 - Why Christ's Euro-American Image Afflicts Hispanics

Oct 12, 2009 - No Samaritans Allowed: U.S. Prohibits Helping Migrants 

Oct 1, 2009 - Who's Really Hurt byAmerica's Travel Ban to Cuba? 

Sept 15, 2009 - Being Thoroughly - and Really - Pro-Life 

Sept 10, 2009 -  The America Glenn Beck and Company Long For

Aug 24, 2009 - A Conservative View on Racial Profiling

Aug 17, 2009 - Immigration Reform Slides to Obama's Backburner

July 31, 2009 -  Health Care's Two Masters: Healing and Making Profits


July 27, 2009 - 
Racial Profiling Continues to be the Norm

July 2, 2009 -
Truly Supporting Our Troops

June 18, 2009 - Claiming Colorblindness: A Myth that Needs to be Debunked

June 12, 2009 - Of Sheep, Goats and Aliens

May 29, 2009 - Sotomayor's Privileged Critics Hurl Clueless Charges of Racism

May 28, 2009 - Society's Structural Sins Oppresses Marginalized Communities

May 21, 2009 - 
U.S. Border a Bleeding Scar for Migrants

May 12, 2009 - Who Do We Really Worship? Prince of Peace or Tsar of Torture?

May 07, 2009 -  
A Pop Quiz for Biblical Literalists

April 2, 2009 - Dominant Culture Influences our Reading of the Bible

March 18, 2009 - Why I am a Heretic
 
March 8, 2009 - Liberationist Approach Troubles Conservatives and Liberals
    
February 23, 2009 -
Was Jesus a Racist?

February 9, 2009 - The Problem with the Melting Pot

January 26, 2009 - Wrestling with God's Word

January 26, 2009 - Stop the Export of Terror

January 14, 2009 - True Liberation Requires Self-Evaluation

January 09, 2009 - Bush Response to Shoe-Thrower a Shameless Act

January 5, 2009 - The Bible Demands Economic Justice
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2008

December 17, 2008 -
Roaches and Rats: A Nativity Reflection

December 2, 2008 - Ethiopian Eununchs and Reading the Text from the Margins

November 17, 2008 - For Christians, Reconciliation is More than a Habit of the Heart

November 21, 2008 - Dear President-elect: Prioritize Immigration Reform

October 13, 2008 - U.S. Policy Pushes and Pulls Migrants

September 11, 2008 - 9/11: A Day That Lives in Infamy

August 25, 2008 - Converting the Church

July 11, 2008 - Show Me a Sexist; I'll Show You a Racist

June 30, 2008 - James Dobson Preaches a False Gospel

June 25, 2008 - Top Ten Questions Never to Ask a Hispanic Visiting Your Church

May 27, 2008 - Focus on the Undocumented Family


May 22, 2008 -
The Devil is in the Doing of Evil

April 28, 2008 - Environmental Racism: Another Inconvenient Truth

March 26, 2008 -What do Obama, Clinton and McCain all have in Common?

March 5, 2008 - The Ethics of Waterboarding

February 18, 2008 - Jesus was an Alien

January 30, 2008 - Constantinian Christianity

January 21, 2008 - Help Wanted: Black Friend
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2007

September 17, 2007 -
What Happens When You Fry Baloney

August 27, 2007 - The Biblical Call for Liberation

August 24, 2007 - The Alien is Jesus Among Us

July 5, 2007 - Conservatism Not a Choice

June 19, 2007 - Do Southern Baptists Really Support 'Biblical' Marriage?

June 11, 2007 - Racial Reconciliation Must Go Beyond Words to Deeds

May 7, 2007 - LA Police Attack on Hispanics Provides Civic Lesson from the Margins

April 25, 2007 - Why the Latino Community Isn't Defending Gonzales

April 16, 2007
- Mr. De La Torre Goes to Washington

April 9, 2007 - The Color of Money in America

April 25, 2007 - Lack of Racial Diversity Harms White Students

January 2, 2007 - Living in the Borderlands

January 2, 2007 - Moral Ambiguities and Guantanamo
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2006


December 28, 2006 - God and Country

December 13, 2006 - The Chickens Come Home to Roost

November 2, 2006 - What I Learned from Tommy

October 25, 2006 - Their Terrorists and Ours

October 9, 2006 - Columbus Day No Reason to Celebrate

October 2, 2006 - Baptists and Alcohol: What Would Jesus Do?

September 30, 2006 - Catch an Illegal Alien

September 1, 2006 - Breaking Down Walls

August 31, 2006 -
Justice and Peace Must Kiss

August 7, 2006 - The Sin of Sodom

June 30, 2006 -  Rhetoric Kills

June 21, 2006 - The Myth of Color-Blindness

May 25, 2006 - Speaking in Tongues

April 10, 2006 - Bananas

March 22, 2006 - Christian Justification of Torture is Satanic

March 20, 2006 - Happy Anniversary

March 9, 2006 - Selling Civil Rights

February 27, 2006 - Racial Profiling is Everyone's Business

February 8, 2006 - A Biblical Budget

January 4, 2006 -
Resegregating American Schools 

January 2, 2006 - The State of the Empire

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2005

December 21, 2005 -
A 'Spanglish Christmas'

December 14, 2005 -  'Full-Quiver' Theology Appeals to Race

December 3, 2005 -
Justice for Tookie

October 10, 2005 - Columbus Day No Reason to Celebrate

September 6, 2005 - Recipe for a Perfect Storm

August 30, 2005 - Equal in God's Eyes, But Not in the Media

July 25, 2005 - Shaking Off the Dust

June 20, 2005 - Teaching the Bible in Public Schools

June 6, 2005 - A Crusade for National Power

May 20, 2005 -
How to Promote 'Diversity' Without Really Trying

April 27, 2005 - Prophets of the King

April 21, 2005 - Which God is Dead

March 30, 2005 - Illiterate Ethicist

March 16, 2005 -
God Loves Gays as People

February 25, 2005 - Quotations Track Church's Anti-Woman Legacy 

February 22, 2005 -
Wrestling with Controversy

February 2, 2005 -
When the Bible is Used for Hate

January 17, 2005 - 'Uncircumcised' Hispanics Problem for Dominant Church Culture

January 3, 2005 - Debate Over Creationism A Luxury for the Powerful
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2004

December 23, 2004 - Advent and War

December 13, 2004 -
Moral Values and Torture

November 29, 2004 -
Working Together on Abortion

November 9, 2004 - A Post-Election Prayer

October 27, 2004 -
It's Time to Choose

October 1, 2004 - Something is Rotten in the State of Florida

September 14, 2004 -
Forgive and Forget

September 1, 2004 - Chicken Hawk Affirmative Action

August 18, 2004 - Biblical Morality and Tax Cuts

August 5, 2004 -
Pop Quiz for Bible Believers

July 19, 2004 - Trumping the Gospel

July 6, 2004 - No Credible Evidence

June 24, 2004 - The Reagan Legacy

June 9, 2004 -
Generation Ñ

May 10, 2004 - Iran by the Numbers

April 13, 2004 - Is CEO Greed Fueling U.S. Industry?

April 1, 2004 - Teaching Outside the Ivory Tower

March 16, 2004 - Marginalized View the Cross Through Different Lens

March 10, 2004 - Waiting for Castro to Die

March 1, 2004 - Christians and the Creation

February 5, 2004 - President or Pitch Man 

February 3, 2004 - Capital Punishment and Race

January 21, 2004 - 'Merit' Scholarship Shifting Funds to the Wealthy  
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2003

December 25, 2003 - Feliz Navidad

December 12, 2003 - Wal-Mart: Always Low Wages?

December 12, 2003 - The Fox Is Regulating the Hen House

November 17, 2003 -
Race a Variable in Euthanasia Debate

October 16, 2003 - 'Soft Money' Links Regulators' Interests to Companies

September 30, 2003 - Christians Demands Reflection on Hard, Lite Torture

September 17, 2003 - 'Neoliberal' Economic Policies Widen Gap Between Rich, Poor

August 28, 2003 -
Is U.S. 'Purveyor of Violence'?

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