I spent Marcus Garvey’s birthday visiting the Haitian refugee camp in St Mary. It is hard to determine exactly how many have arrived on the island by boat. It is almost certain that some have evaded our Coast Guards and found a way to integrate into informal settlements around the island, but the government of … More The Least of These
This blog is now 18 years old. It was started on the 4th of July 2007 with the post Happy Birthday Norman. I often say, I haven’t had a new idea in 25 years. What I do in these blogs is water the same mind seeds with more and more focus and attention with the … More Seeds
The connection between unity and integrity is often missed because our modern epistemology, founded on the premise of Individualism and randomness cannot fathom a notion such as the parallelism of spheres, so intuitively grasped by ancient cultures more attune to the collective dimension than the individual and to notions of divine order rather than randomness … More Divine Division / Diabolic Integrity
A fair authentication of authorship is the ability to fix one’s broken invention. This assumption probably underscores the logic behind the central tenet of Christianity’s claim that Jesus is God – his purported ability to fix the problems of humanity. It started out with simple things, like saving the life of a party when the … More The Fixer
The following was originally published under the title Resilience or Reliance earlier this year. In light of current focus in some quarters I am re-releasing for contemplation of all who will and can. “The settlement of Jamaica was not financed by any joint-stock company as in New England or Virginia; or by any lord proprietor … More Di solution – a life or debt decision
We are still stifled by the euro-centric episteme which tells us that ontologically we are nothing unless we are able to ape European ways of existence. – Prof Clinton Hutton In October 1982, Edward Seaga, then Prime Minister of Jamaica hosted a revival table on the lawns of Jamaica House. As was the case when … More Revival time
This peculiar phrase, oft repeated in ritual prayer privately and publicly by adherents to the Christian faith encodes a key understanding, vital to all humanity, regardless of faith or lack thereof. Properly understood to be addressing a personification of the progenitor and source of the cosmic order, when stripped of gender and paternal assumptions, which … More Hallowed be Thy Name 3
For 25 years, I’ve had real problems with the religious demographics being projected by scholars and even the most trusted institutions. I remember being dumbfounded by my scholar-friend Dr Muata Ashby, prolific author and Egyptologist, attempting to resurrect both ancient Egyptian language and religion, following the Zionist model, as a precursor to 21st century Pan … More Finally, it’s an atheist who gets it right.
… for they are like the angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection …Luke20:36 Easter approaches, so I offer for reflection the articles below and the following testimony, recorded in Natural Mystic which was relayed to me personally by the Rev Tony Bailey when we met in Toronto in 2008 at a prayer … More Sons of the Resurrection
The original title of this article was ‘The tenuousness and tenacity of Caribbean civilization’. However after working through the ideas i have decided to treat the two issues separately, so be prepared for a pessimistic end. From the dawn of history, all coastal civilizations, as is the Caribbean, have had certain common characteristics which make … More The Tenuousness of Caribbean Civilization
