The shocking death by suicide of comedic actor Robin William has catalyzed some thoughts I am still musing about, the unexpressed grief that some people go through. We all need to be more sensitive, discerning even, but even then we …
Sabbatarian Claim:
1. At Sinai God gave 2 laws. The primary was the Decalogue, moral in essence, written on stone tablets and placed inside the golden ark. The secondary, the ‘book of the law’, ceremonial in essence, written by Moses …
During our Religious Hardtalk dialogue about my book Revelations on Ras Tafari rebroadcast on TVJ, June 24, 2009, Mutabaruka advanced the view that the early Rastas saw Emperor Haile Selassie as God because of a statement made by Marcus Garvey. …
Matthew 24; Mark 13; Luke 21
A. Matthew 24. 1-14
We need to clarify the context and text of our Lord’s dramatic prophecy in Mt. 24.2; Mk. 13.2; Lk 21.6.
It is that time of year again when assorted clowns —some claiming to be scholars—trot out the repeatedly debunked ‘dying and rising Gods/Saviours’ thesis.
In 2003 I gave a public lecture in Kingston, Jamaica, which provided, inter alia, a rebuttal …