By Miguel De Le Torre It was the early 1980s. I was a young Latino whose only earthly possession was a fiery red sports car. One spring break, I decided to go on a road trip and drive from Miami…
On the right side of history
By Miguel de la Torre Imagine for the moment that I found fundamentalist Christians to be an abomination to the gospel message of Jesus Christ; or that I believe that the Tea Party is satanic. Now imagine that I own…
The ethics of Dexter Morgan
By Miguel De La Torre Dexter Morgan, the fictional character on the popular Showtime series, Dexter, is a forensic blood splatter analyst for the Miami Police homicide department. Those who watched the eight seasons (as I just binge watched) know…
To get the right answers, ask the right questions
By Miguel De La Torre On Sunday, Oct. 23, 4004 BCE, some 6,000 years ago, God created the heavens and the earth — at least according to James Ussher, archbishop of Armagh in Ireland, who made his calculations during the…
The Screwtape E-mails
By Miguel De La Torre On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 5:36 PM, Screwtape [email protected]; wrote: Dearest Wormwood, It is with great pleasure that I hear of the success you are having with your Christian patient. Just because they say…
Birth control and the Bill of Rights
By Miguel De La Torre Is requiring corporations to cover birth control medication an attack on religious liberty? Or is claiming the protection of religious liberty an excuse to force one’s religious convictions on others? Should religious affiliated organizations —…
Gun violence too close to home
By Miguel De La Torre We picked our home the way most with middle-class privilege choose their neighborhoods. At the time, we had two adolescents who were on the threshold of beginning high school. We wanted a home that was…
Broken immigration system breaking lives
By Miguel De La Torre We often say our immigration system is broken, but seldom do we contemplate how our immigration system is breaking lives. Sandra Lopez is just one life to be crushed under the immigration grinding mill. She…
Who owns the land?
By Miguel De La Torre Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata coined the slogan, “la tierra es de quien la trabaja” — the land belongs to those who work it. The Bible seems to agree. The story of King Ahab, Queen Jezebel and…