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!
The recalcitrant haughtiness of fundamentalism can be as impenetrable as steel. This is most unfortunate especially when the ills of the present time require the kind of flexibility which at least allows one to engage with the adversary (I mean of course diplomatic engagement, not throwing bombs to annihilate them). The other option of course … More Inter-Faith Dialogue or Demonization
The title does seem vague and somewhat curious, but the theme of this year’s Emancipation Day Conversation was not pulled out of a hat. It is the continuation of a contiguous conversation we at the Caribbean Christian Leadership Network have been having for over five years. One can review from the beginning and recognize the … More The Church and Socio-economic development
One of the earliest claims for reparations was made in 1962 by the Rt Excellent Alexander Bustamante and the young Edward Phillip George Seaga then visiting the British parliament in negotiating upcoming Jamaican independence. It was Mr. Seaga who pointed out in stark terms the absolute social mess the British were leaving Jamaica’s incoming new government to … More Land of my Birth
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