Search for "cheap airline tickets from philadelphia to miami phone number 1-800-299-7264"

“Biblical” Disaster: Understanding Religion in Haiti

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…n the Caribbean. As I watch the drama unfold in Haiti, and feel it here in Miami, the home of the largest Haitian Diaspora in the United States, I cannot help but think of another earthquake, another country. In 1976 a 7.5 earthquake devastated Guatemala, leaving 23,000 dead and over 50,000 injured. My husband, a child at the time, has told me of the silence, the fear that followed this catastrophe. As a scholar of religion, I have often wondered…

Forgiving LeBron, Fetal Jesus Sonogram, and Hummus Wars

By Michael J. Altman

…he NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers is asking fans to forgive star LeBron James for taking his talents to South Beach and the Miami Heat….

Sotomayor is Sworn in: Latina Wisdom Personified

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…rting/concert venue to hear a mass in her honor, for there is no church in Miami big enough to house her devotees. Hers is the story of a statue discovered by two indigenous men and an African slave, and later accompanying a slave community in Cuba. Her statue still remains in a shrine in Cuba, and a duplicate accompanied Cubans into exile here in the United States. She is the most powerful symbol of Cuban religious and cultural identity both on t…

Black Church Leadership Gathering Excludes Women

By Hazel Cherry

This past Sunday in Miami, Bishop Paul S. Morton opened the Full Gospel’s ‘Generals of Faith’ event, Rebranding in the Body of Christ: The Ultimate Leader Shift, by announcing, “This room represents the movers and shakers of the kingdom.” Yet there was not a single woman in the room. According to the press release “by invitation only prominent new generation pastors and leaders filled a room…to interact and to integrate their ideas in bold, power…

Cuba Opens its Doors to the Catholic Church

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…attendance, as was Archbishop Thomas Wenski and several other priests from Miami. In the wake of the Church’s continued involvement in the release of over fifty political prisoners on the island, last week’s inauguration is a material symbol of the easing tensions between the Cuban government and the Catholic Church. While Castro’s government never officially severed ties with the Vatican, the expulsion of various priests after the triumph of the…

Cherry-Picking in the God Gap: A Post-Election Conversation on the Religious Vote and the Battle to Spin it

By Daniel Schultz and Chrissy Stroop

…the Republican party over Trump, and…it didn’t happen. We’ll see different numbers floating around (there are as many measures of evangelicals as there are demographers), but preliminary indications are that the white evangelical vote for the GOP dipped little, if at all. https://twitter.com/robertpjones/status/1324439825907355655 Chrissy: Well, Dan, I’m thankful to have had the opportunity to publish a fair bit of media criticism over the course…

Satanists Infiltrate a Ritual Abuse Conference in Oakland: Your Guide to What Happened and Why

By Joseph Laycock

…“Brain-Washing Tactics Force Chinese into Ranks of Communist Party” in the Miami News. That article introduced “brainwashing” to the American vocabulary. During the Cold War “brainwashing” became a way to acknowledge the loyalty of communist soldiers while simultaneously discrediting it as a kind of false consciousness. It also helped to explain American POWs who appeared to cooperate with their communist captors. How did the concept jump from Com…

What Would Ai Weiwei Do? What the Smashing of a Million-Dollar Artwork Has to Teach Us

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…ican-born artist named Maximo Caminero walked into the Pérez Art Museum in Miami and smashed one of the vases that was part of Ai Weiwei’s Colored Vases display. Caminero’s complaint? That local galleries put all their time and effort into international artists of high esteem, and forsake the locals. So here’s the thing: iconoclasm is itself an iconic act. One image replaces another. Ai was careful to have his iconoclastic act documented, skillful…

Coulter Calls WND “Fake Christians”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…n such a spin he canned Ann from the upcoming Taking Back America event in Miami. Now, Coulter is firing back, calling Farah and his cohorts “fake Christians who are trying to get publicity,” during an appearance on the Fox News show The Red Eye. Thanks to her, they’re certainly getting a lot of publicity. Farah responded in a column in WND: Coulter called me a ‘publicity whore’ for my decision. But look who is on television talking about this—thr…

Religious Leaders Press Obama for Exemption from Executive Order Barring Discrimination

By Sarah Posner

…y Lobby requires such a provision. On my bloggingheads show, University of Miami Law School First Amendment expert Carolina Mala Corbin discussed the impact of Monday’s decision in the Hobby Lobby case on LGBT rights. “Assuming the federal government passes laws that ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation,” she said, ” you could very much expect to have corporations to object to these laws based on their religious beliefs.” The ques…