Each of these blogposts is generally crammed with information. Most of what I hope will be contemplated is the stuff mentioned in passing, usually just a hyperlink (highlighted in red) indicates the material that probably inspired whatever brief commentary is made during the post. I mentioned recently Jacob Collier’s I harm U series which launched … More Harmony 2
Much of how we see the world is decided before we look. I constantly marvel how many typos I detect when editing these blogs only after the sixth or seventh re-reading. This is simply due to the fact that I tend to see what I am expecting should be there. Only after the seventh examination … More Worldview and Objectivity – Reverential relevance
Pastor Fitzroy Kerr seems to be getting some elements of the church’s media mandate correct. Ever since Something More announced the presence of Pentecostal Evangelicals on the Jamaican TV screen with the substantial donation of television equipment from Chapel Hill Harvester Church’s Arch Bishop Earl Paulk, then at the height of his ministerial influence emphasizing … More Mandate for Media Ministry
The last time I heard Angels sing was in 1986. Of course, I could easily dispense with religious jargon and describe the event very differently. What I heard were subtle but distinct tonal harmonies on the threshold of audibility, remarkably similar to the synthesizer-generated tones I had just used to amplify the ethereal atmosphere in … More Lessons from the God Zone: A United Kingdom
Glamorous is the exact opposite of Glorious. At least in the Biblical sense. One speaks of outward luster, the other the outshining of the inwardly pure. I’ve written an entire series on Chabod … what some Christians and Jews have called Shekinah, though the source of that is not strictly from Hebrew tradition. Nevertheless the … More The Power and the Glory
There are generally two approaches to theology: Those who consider God’s creation and those who consider God’s creation. That you can hardly distinguish between the two is evidence of the difficulty involved in such discernment at times. In the first case, what is being contemplated is the creation of God … that is, the creation … More Lessons from the God Zone
The Prime Minister of Peace in his dealings with the leader of the opposition, whoever he happened to be at the time, set a very high bar of decorum for his ministers to follow. In the scriptures, the number 12 is the number of government and Jesus as chief minister modelled the standard he laid … More The Devil’s Dignity
In session 2 of the Jamaican church and governance, Prof. Miller spoke of the ‘moving of the spirit of God’ wondering whether, in the context of the rumbling of dried bones coming together we have in the Jamaica Umbrella Groups of Churches, there might be the starting point of such a move. A powerful symbol … More Still looking
Successful models of church/state partnerships are essential to counter the often valid concerns of the materialist humanists seeking to realize their equal citizenship under a nation of just laws, where neither religion, race, gender, political affiliation, degree of wealth, professional status, social position, level of education or age confers upon its adult citizenry superior status … More State of the church / Church of the state
Christian nationalism is synonymous with racism, xenophobia, Fascism, Nazism, Imperialism, Genocide, terror, torture and atrocities the likes of which we have names for without even understanding what the meanings might be. We simply know that they are bad, very bad. Perhaps this is why Christ and the apostles spoke so harshly about apostasy. Because when … More On whose shoulders? Beneath whose feet?
