To understand Trumpism without rancor or bitterness, one has to be able to appreciate the conundrum that America now finds herself in. Now I know I’ve given my insecure Trumpian friends cause to unjustly accuse me of Trump bashing.  Struggling   with  the incredulity, from my point of view, of that movement’s seemingly successful  usurpation or … More We the people and voter fraud 1

Watching and listening to the ongoing noise in US Politics – The latest on Manaforte, Flynn, Cohen, ‘Obamagate’ etc could make one wonder that the church of Jesus Christ could get involved with such perversity….only if one is naive. The church of Jesus Christ throughout the centuries and continuing today has been responsible for aiding, … More The spirit of Anti-Christ

Small axe fall big tree. Senegal’s seminal success in containing the Corona virus outbreak….or at least in minimizing it’s fatalities, shows up the blister and blunder of the USA’s catastrophic mismanagement of the whole affair. But to even compare the two, I agree, is unfair granted the huge difference in both situations…as far removed in … More Barking dogs

For all the warmth and friendliness the Jamaican people are known for, that is just the face we show foreign visitors to our shore. As we are well aware, “si mi  an kom liv  wid mi  a tuu difrent  sopm.” We can so easily treat each other like Pariah. Whether the issue is domestic abuse, … More Covid-19 Church shut down.

Everybody has a philosophy of life – an implicit one as well as an explicit one. The latter is defined by our creeds. The former by our deeds. Upon observation, one commentator put forward the view that the three essentials of church practice today are 1. a building or some physical meeting place 2. a … More The three essentials of Christianity

For humans, power is indispensable. Our DNA seems coded with an innate need for control. We are not satisfied with merely being here. We want to know that while we are here, we take control. We also have the disposition to adapt and to surrender. We would not have survived this far without it. But … More Power and Dependency

I’ve invested quite a bit of intellectual capital attempting to establish what I considered was an unrealized truism – that religion was essentially about values not beliefs…as is popularly accepted. I thought (and still think) I have good reason to continue down that path (even Jesus said ‘know them by their fruits’… i.e. values not … More God is not a Christian (Thank God!)

A lying, lesbian, satanic jezebel. That was how Rachel Maddow was stylized by one of my ever-Trumpian friends. The ‘queen of fake news’ probably would have sufficed, but there is a vile, bilious underbelly to the diatribe spewed forth by Trump followers (no… ‘imitators’) who have been deceptively recruited and manipulated to protect and defend … More Hallowed be Thy name 1