At the risk of losing friends and irritating people I must point out that ‘has been/done’ is not cogent proof of ‘will be/do’ for humans or even God. OK calm down and think critically. This sloppy argument is too popular …
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Memories of Life with a Sweetheart
Justice Seymour Panton was the Guest Speaker at the launch of my recent book A Controversial Clergyman. He was a Clerk of Courts during my time working in the RM Courts in Montego Bay, straight out of High School …
How not to read the Bible, Dr. Hagins!
In my recent column ‘Read the Bible Literarily NOT LITERALLY’, printed in both the Jamaica Observer and the Jamaica Gleaner on Tuesday February 4 instant, I stressed the need to recognize various literary features of the kinds of literature in …
Afrocentrism/Black Consciousness: Critical Thoughts
Over the last five hundred years, Christianity in Africa and in most countries with people of African ancestry, has been charged with outright racism (when non-Blacks headed the hierarchy within denominations) and with inverse racism (when Blacks headed the hierarchy …
Clinton Chisholm | Read The Bible Literarily NOT LITERALLY
Both Bible believing Christians and critics of the Bible make the same blunder when attempting to make sense of the pieces of ancient literature now called the Bible.
The Bible may be sacred literature for Christians but literature nonetheless and …
Reading Ancient Texts Responsibly
For Drs. Ethon Lowe, Michael Abrahams and others
Though many (learned and unlearned folk) seem not be aware of it, there is an academic version of the biblical “believe not every spirit…” It is “double-check all sources.” I ‘push up’ myself …