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 Robert Parham | Dec 31, 2004 | Opinion
Time Magazine has selected a man or woman as the person of the year since 1927. President Bush is the 2004 recipient. Past recipients have included Mohandas Gandhi in 1930, Adolf Hitler in 1938, Joseph Stalin in 1939, Lyndon Johnson in 1967 and Pope John Paul II in...
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...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Dec 13, 2004 | Opinion
We, as a country, are attempting to make history without God. And although we’ve been flaunting the previous election as the triumph of “moral values,” in reality we have exchanged the biblical mandate for justice for a human mandate determined to...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Nov 29, 2004 | Opinion
Considering the depths of rancor existing between those advocating pro-life and those advocating pro-choice, we are left to wonder if common ground can ever be found. Cristina Page, who serves as the program director of the New York affiliate of NARAL Pro-Choice...
