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
In human terms, the ability to choose and the experience or exercise of power are so intertwined as to be virtually synonymous. By definition, powerlessness is the absence of the capacity to choose. Power exists therefore only in the presence of choice, and effective or meaningful power is the ability to align choice with intention … More Reflections on Peace, Power and Pain
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
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
It was just a few years ago that my friend who happened to lead one of the several Father’s support organizations in the island approached me with the predicament that the men’s movement was having. A woman’s organization had announced its launch on Father’s day, which was a perceived affront to all ‘di man dem’ … More Faith of our Fathers and Cultural Friction
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