The recent tragic killing of Cora Thompson on church grounds in Western Jamaica during a worship service has shaken many to their core. Having lived in a bubble for the past few weeks, I have just been reading the comments giving voice to the national reaction and have taken notice of the many questions the … More Hard Sayings
Dispersion was the secret ingredient that led to the widespread and rapid propagation of the gospel in the beginning and the same is true today, perhaps now more than ever before. This was decidedly expressed in the recent Lausanne document on world evangelism: The State of the Great Commission, a monumental work of intellect and … More Diasporation
I’d like to sincerely wish one and all a very merry Christmas, but how can I? I’m ending the year as I began it recognizing the utter vanity of tradition if we are not prepared to protect and preserve it. As far as Christmas is concerned, I’ve long repudiated the Johnny Mathis and Bing Crosby … More Black Christmas
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
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 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 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
“… I will build my church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it.” It is good to repeat certain truths over and over again, because this is how the lie prevails – by constant repetition. As every good hypnotist knows and certain politicians, if you keep repeating a narrative, it becomes operational. … More Warfare of Worldviews
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