By Gregory Lee Cuéllar Debates on immigration in the United States continue to move in the default direction of North/South. As such, the prominent debating points often direct public attention to the U.S./Mexico border fence and the Latina/o community. By sleight-of-hand, many in the mainstream media tend to recast a centuries-old U.S. immigration experience as a Latina/o problem. Unlike the variety of migration stories in the Bible, the forces creating migration for many Latina/o … [Read more...]
Lip Service – But Where Is the Heart?
August 30, 2012 By Leave a Comment
By Dirk G. Lange Human beings want religion not God. Or, to put it slightly differently (and perhaps in a more nuanced manner!), they all too easily equate religion with a very particular, culturally determined, idea of God. They name their religion – their rites, their laws, their stories – divine or Bible-based. They find mystical origins for their laws turning those laws into unquestionable truths. Watch the Video: What Contaminates a Life? Efrain Agosto, a … [Read more...]



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