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'?