Incorruptible
A friend sent me two blog posts from Frank Viola, one of the top Christian bloggers on the internet. The first: To my miracle-obsessed Friends, the second: To my miracle-doubting friends. Should I summarize and de-theologize his main argument? ‘Character is more important than spiritual power’. However, Frank is talking to church people, who by … More It’ll take a miracle
I still enjoy friendship with those whose views on essential matters – politics, religion, cosmology, sexuality, ethics. aesthetics are diametrically opposite to mine, some which are admittedly high maintenance with the stakes being so high in our presently polarized culture on the verge and in some cases already in the throes of profound and perhaps … More Ostrich or eagle?
The most compelling truth about human being is that its all about the story. All we are, were and ever will be are stories. Living, breathing stories. Hence narrative is everything. Who tells, and how is told the stories we perpetuate create the foundation of our experienced reality and understood truth. Certainly for me, at … More A United State in the Americas
My atheist friend Sam Harris tellingly said that under any circumstances you will always have bad people doing bad things; but it takes religion to get good, decent people to do despicable things. While he was speaking mostly about savage things like clitorodectomy and suicide bombers, really the list is virtually endless. Someone immersed in … More The Trump Cult
There are some unthinkable things – not that they are not possible, but that people would not want to think about them. Two such examples are: 1 Atomic disaster in the middle east. 2 Russian troops on US soil. The capacity of the seer is to transcend time lines and peak at possibilities. While many … More Seers and Sayers
It could be argued that the Emperor’s nakedness was obvious to everyone in the realm from day 1 of the Trump administration. The thing to be examined then is the complicity of the crowd that facilitates the denigration of the throne and all institutionally embodied in it, by such manifest lewdness. Of course, we are … More Stones and Serpents
After what appeared a fiasco this past Sunday and a review of Dr. Strange, a sci-fi which explores the concepts of time and eternity and the purpose of man in both, my reflections have returned to the theme of time and how we function in it. In Jamaica we have a special term for being … More On time
James spoke about the concept of ‘pure religion’ . There is also, whether one wants to believe in it or not, pure politics. Obviously, whenever human power is concentrated, and hidden from public view, there will be money and sex excesses. Once one has access to power, there is the discovery of the raw truth … More Pay attention
The key word in law and order is ORDER. And the key question is “Whose order” should our law and ordinances maintain? The US police force may or may not have as colorful a history as our JCF whose genesis is linked historically to the suppression of the Morant Bay Insurrection, but in terms of … More Utopianism or Law and order?
Utopianism and pragmatism are poles apart, and ever conscious of the specter of being dismissed as utopian, I have been very encouraged in the last ten years of seeing aspects of the vision I hold of the future finding a place of establishment within the culture, even if marginally so. It demonstrates that whatever we … More Utopianism or a brave new future?
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