The tendency for adult decision-making to become hopelessly prejudiced and often poisoned by the partisan spectacles through which we have learned to view the world is a matter of mere observation in any modern society of blended diversity. Not without reason did the scripture say a child will lead them. For similar reason, you will … More Unimpeachable
“Nothing else matters. All that matters is ‘The Change’. All who align with this position are automatically and irrevocably blessed.” Galatians 6:15 (my transliteration) For a substantial portion of us in Jamaica, Christianity is more lingo than lifestyle. I know how easily those of us nurtured in the modern mainstream evangelical movement are prone to … More Solo Christos 2: The Imitation of Christ
There is no grammatical mistake in the title. I am not asking us to identify ourselves. I am asking us to identify our ‘we’. When you say ‘we’, who is that? ‘We’ is not a plural pronoun. (Forget what you learned in school. It’s wrong.) ‘Us’ is a singular entity. A union. An amalgam. A … More Who is we?
Maybe it’s the logical counter to the resilient tendency to forget the traumatic past and move on to better things, but we construct living altars to pain. One would think that three or four generations removed from the tragedy, a community would be ready to move on. Those were different times. You can’t judge Bustamante … More Memorializing Pain
In Vision, I explored the various planes of consciousness, including perceptual abilities relatively rare and hardly developed in persons cultivated in the culture of Philosophical Materialism. We can only live within the sphere of our vision, guided: · by hindsight (the majority) · by foresight (the chosen few), or · by insight (everyone to some degree at some point in time). The … More Trinary consciousness
In my article Defining Observations, I stated, “The political dimensions of religion are often ignored. However this renders both at best anemic, at worst evil. ” For all the practical and valid reasons that the movement towards clear distinction and separation of Church and State was historically both clearly progressive and purgative. and that moment … More God and Politics: Trinary thinking
Most people are not interested in changing their minds, whatever their present orientation – Jew or Catholic, Democrat or Republican, same sex marriage advocate or anti-abortionist. Whatever the issue, people generally tend to change their minds only when compelled to do so by circumstances, or after a lengthy process of evaluation gradually convinces them of … More Winning hearts
‘But as for me, may I never boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.’ The thing about sacerdotalism is that it obscured the personhood of Jesus, and the ONE he represents. Priests called to represent Christ, replaced him … More Solo Christo
One of the things I like about the throne of God and the creatures that guard it is they are surrounded by eyes on every side – perfect metaphor for circumspection. No wonder they cry ‘holy!’ Interestingly, deception is first represented in scripture as the opening of the eyes. Gen 3: 5-7. Perhaps then this … More Vistas
As in football, (soccer for those whose idea of sports is a celebration of thuggery rather than skill) when your team member is given a foul, no boos are heard from your side of the crowd – motivated purely by winning, not sportsmanship; now that Trump investigations are metastasized under a democratic-led congress, and the … More Cool-aid infoxication
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