Though Jehovah’s Witnesses proudly assert that the only proper name for God is Jehovah there is evidence available for years now that the word Jehovah is not even a defensible name for God, based on the Bible.
Charles T. Russell’s successor, Judge Rutherford, had selected the current name of the group to distinguish those who accepted his leadership from the smaller group that remained faithful to Russell’s memory and leadership, after a split in their…

The New York Times Bestselling novel The Shack by Wm. Paul Young is an interesting story of a man’s encounter with God, manifested as Father, Son and Holy Spirit. In the novel God, the Father is a Black woman, God the Son is a Jewish man and God the Holy Spirit is an Asian woman.
For the person who is unfamiliar with literary techniques this all sounds like blasphemy.  The writer seemingly anticipates this indictment…

Historians, sociologists, cultural anthropologists and some soft-headed Christians, are to blame for the now popular but suspect or meaningless notion that Rastafarianism is the most indigenous religious expression that Jamaica has known.
This kind of argument is usually advanced with an implied (or expressed) criticism of Christianity as being an alien religion.
Let me indulge an aside.  Notice how Rastafarianism and African religious retentions are lauded in academia yet none of these religious expressions find…

There is no getting away from it. The Bible says in Ex. 3:22 that the holy God told Moses to instruct the Israelites “Every woman is to ask her neighbor and any woman living in her house for articles of silver and gold and for clothing, which you will put on your sons and daughters. And so you will plunder the Egyptians.” (New International Version, NIV). This command is repeated in Ex. 11:2-3 and 12:35-36.…

If the Bible and Jesus are so holy and wise how is it that both are so complicit with slavery? What defense or explanation can defenders of Christianity offer to intelligent modern critics?
Well for starters we need to remember that slavery in the Old Testament and through the time of Jesus, though cruel, was not like the slavery we in the modern world are accustomed to reading about.
Slavery in the ancient world was…