” when it comes on to pastors, priests, evangelists, and prophets, I do not believe in them, and no one can get me to believe in them. This has pained me. It has pained my family. It has destroyed a lot of persons’ lives,” Former congregant of Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries led by the … More Hallowed be Thy Name 2

I can’t say that I’ve had a single new revelation in the last 35 years. I would attribute all of the content of my thinking and writing to a single epiphany in an instant of time…. an unforgettable moment. All the multilayered thought expressed in each of my blogs is merely an attempt at articulating … More Living in the Thunder

It will be a mark of maturity when people of faith no longer find it essential to use the word ‘belief’ or ‘believers’ in referencing their spiritual practice. Rather than talking about one’s beliefs, how much more enlightened to speak of one’s understanding. Beliefs are a conversation killer. Everyone has them and everyone is equally … More Caught up

Freedom of religion it turns out has its boundaries, like all other rights in society, it comes with attendant responsibilities. It used to be that only marginal cults like the Jim Jones People’s Temple or the early Jehovah’s Witrness’ issue with blood transfusion tested the boundary lines of religious criminality. However these days, distinguishing fringe … More Religious beliefs are not sacrosanct

“The Bible is literature: It is divinely-inspired and inerrant literature, but it is literature all the same. This means that we must read it as literature. Some parts are meant to be literally understood, and they are written accordingly – as history, or theological propositions, or whatever. But one would not expect to read the … More Bible Literacy: Literaturists and Literalists

For twenty years, I have largely remained silent about certain popularly accepted, and almost never questioned cosmogenetic presuppositions of fundamentalist believers, wishing to steer clear of controversy. However, if one’s vision of the past is impaired, so likely will their depth understanding of the present and their ability to accurately project into the future. For … More Chronfoundment

The Vox populi and Vox Dei are not always aligned. The democratic ideal of an Aaronic leadership responsive to popular demand often causes God’s anointed to break the Tablets of Covenantal Law in pieces in enraged protestation. But at times, it is exactly the other way around. So, discerning the Vox Dei demands discernment of … More Vox Dei

Instinctually, all mankind (not just Quantum Physicists) desire to penetrate the sheer curtain of matter to peer deeply into the organizing field of consciousness the Hebrews called BEING, personified always in the first person (the one seeing, hearing and speaking) and grounded in the present tense – I AM, and so as never to be … More THUNDER

“The dispensationalists (Evangelicals and Charismatics) … cling to an obviously schizophrenic theology: an eschatology that preaches the failure of the Holy Spirit in social transformation, and a soteriology (doctrine of salvation) that preaches the comprehensive personal transformation that the Holy Spirit produces.” Gary North The Dominion Covenant North believed this implicit theological schizophrenia would eventually … More We’ve only just begun

P. Chin in his letter to the Observer titled “What have they done for us lately if ever” opined on the conferees for national honour awards this year, particularly awarding the OM to Don Harris and the CD to Rev Al Miller. I confess that when I saw Don Harris atop the 2021 Awards list … More Honour to whom honour is due