by Miguel A. De La Torre | Feb 22, 2005 | Opinion
Shortly before being murdered, Archbishop Romero said, “Those who have voice must speak for the voiceless.” This is what it means to raise consciousness, raise awareness. But raising awareness within the safety of privacy is never enough. Communities, in...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Feb 2, 2005 | Opinion
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...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Jan 17, 2005 | Opinion
When the pope made a papal visit to Miami in 1987, delighting Miami’s large Hispanic community, a local enterprising Euro-American shirt-maker decided to capitalize on the event. He made thousands of shirts which in Spanish were suppose to read “I saw the...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Jan 3, 2005 | Opinion
Euro-American evangelicals, supposedly empowered by the recent election, are demanding that public schools teach the religious concept of creationism (a literal reading of Genesis 1-2). My question is which creation story should be taught? After all, anyone who has...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Dec 23, 2004 | Opinion
This past Sunday at church we sang the familiar hymn, “Angels, from the Realms of Glory” by Henry Thomas Smart (1867). The words of Verse 3 led me to write this article. “Sages, leave your contemplations, Brighter visions beam afar; Seek the great...
