“The settlement of Jamaica was not financed by any joint-stock company as in New England or Virginia; or by any lord proprietor offering venture capital, as in some Southern colonies in the USA; or by the Crown as in some other colonies. Some early Jamaicans brought their wealth from Barbados and Nevis. Others acquired wealth … More Resilience or Reliance: The courage to embrace brave old ways
I really would love to wish everybody a happy new year, but even if one is possible, I am not seeing how we in the region are preparing ourselves to receive it. I recommend the following two somber but solid speeches below from CARICOM chairman, Mia Motley and the Caribbean’s most senior statesman, Prime Minister … More Jamaica land we love -The stories we tell
The tension between a fundamentalist approach and an ecumenical approach to Christian faith constantly manifests itself in our ability to conduct and maintain constructive, productive and supportive relationships within the church, which best facilitates the harnessing of our collective pool of resources and creates the broadest platform of leadership that Caribbean Civilization so desperately needs, … More Dissociation, Disconnection, Dissonance
May the refreshing of joy, the renewal of hope, and the invitation to peace that is associated with every celebration of Christ (Missa Christus or Christ Mass) be your portion in this season. One of the attendant features of Theophany is an increase in the phenomenon of dreams and visions. This is certainly true of … More Mine eyes have seen the Glory
Being still fixated on describing the Beloved Community, my ‘Hephzibah’, (one generally does not deliberately arrive at a destiny that has not first been identified and articulated) … and this generation no longer resonates with the dreams of their ancestors, whether Garvey or M.L. King, Isaiah or St Augustine, no longer having an appreciation of … More The Healing Community
I had two significant conversations this week that clarified certain matters for me. Firstly, my brother was home from Atlanta and we had an intimate conversation about The Church and Sexuality. I shared with him my encounters with the late Ambassador Peter King, perhaps Jamaica’s most notorious homosexual. I rarely share those stories to avoid … More Public Advocacy vs. Christian Evangelism
In my previous blog, A Futile conversation, my aim was to provoke interest as well as reflection on how and why we do the conversation thing, whether publicly or privately. I think its a remarkable sign of the times that political and religious conversations are marked by a spirit of pride as opposed to one … More Shared Understanding
A totally wrong-headed idea. What good can possibly be accomplished by bringing together in conversation such diametrically opposite ideologues and dogmatists as lesbian – loving Father Sean Major Campbell and militant anti-gay crusader Phillipa Davies in a conversation about the Church and Sexuality? Neither authoritarian church nor authoritarian state are capable of rationale thought on … More A Futile Conversation
The Franki Valli and the 4 Seasons hit song of the 1960s, covered by Barry Manilow in the 70s and the reggae version released by Winston Reedy in 2021 is as close as rhetoric can come to the feeling of falling instantly and deeply in love – capturing the blissful fascination of those ensnared by … More My eyes adore you
After Rachel Maddow’s expose tonight, I am emboldened to come out and say what I have been holding myself back from saying for some time. One would have to understand the longsuffering involved in coming to this decision. I’ve written down my intercessory story in Natural Mystic. In chapters 9 and 10, I discuss the … More SPLAYED!
