by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jun 23, 2020 | News
White practicing Christians in the U.S. are less likely to say the nation is struggling with racial justice, according to a Barna Group report published June 17. “As this survey was conducted in late summer 2019, it can’t account for any shift due to the present,...
by Miguel De La Torre | May 22, 2020 | Opinion
Editor’s note: This article first appeared on Sept. 17, 2007. At the time of publication, De La Torre was director of the Justice & Peace Institute and associate professor of social ethics at Iliff School of Theology in Denver. Ever wonder what happens when you...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Aug 21, 2019 | News
Miguel A. De La Torre is professor of social ethics and Latinx studies at Iliff School of Theology in Denver. Where did you grow up? My family moved to Hell’s Kitchen as refugees and lived in a four-story tenement building (with one shared bathroom per floor). When I...
by Miguel De La Torre | Mar 25, 2013 | Opinion
Multiple studies reveal that our current U.S. legal system negatively impacts communities of color. A disproportionate number of people of color face both prison time and capital punishment. According to a 2011 report by the U.S. Department of Justice, 67.8 percent of...
by Miguel De La Torre | Mar 7, 2013 | Opinion
One of the unexamined assumptions of the Christian faith is a theology based on hope. And yet, I find hope problematic because among the disenfranchised, the ultra-poor, the least of the least, I discover an ethos where hope is not apparent. Over the past several...
