Since the 1st Wednesday of August (2022) I have been conducting weekly Bible studies at a Baptist Church in south Florida on Reading the Bible Meaningfully. We have been exploring the basics and beyond to help the brethren make better sense of their Bible reading and Bible study. Basics such as, though the Bible is a sacred book…
For Lawyers and Other Citizens
The arrests a few years back of two prominent Jamaicans, politician Ruel Reid and Fritz Jackson, President of the Caribbean Maritime University as well as the impeachment inquiry of President Trump have made popular a now entrenched legal maxim with a most interesting history. That legally entrenched maxim is “no one is above the law”….
Gambling tips, gambling tricks in Jamaica
Gambling exploits human vulnerability and folly. People tend to be vulnerable to slick but untrue ads re gambling. Cash Pot asks you to choose a number from 1 to 36 and says your chance of winning is 36 to 1 that should be 1 in 36. The company also says enticingly and deceptively “The more…
Tempted to Gamble?
So right now (July 29, 2022) the Lottery Jackpot in the US is $1.28 billion not simply million and I would hazard a guess that many anti-gambling US Christians have been prompted, nay compelled, to have a second thought (not speedy either) about the ‘wrongness’ of gambling. The analogy is suspect I know but this…
Just Thinking, Logically
It happens to me regularly: I indulge prolonged thought on ideas that most people take for granted as established truth or tradition and so beyond critique or questioning. As the Apostle Paul says in the Bible “bear with me in a little folly”. Two such have attracted my thinking yet again. You must have heard…
Reproductive Rights vs. Abortion
Even as a mere man I get the challenge that a woman faces when dealing with an unwanted pregnancy, even if the cause is simply consensual but unprotected sex. I can readily empathize with the dilemma a female faces when dealing with a pregnancy resulting from rape or incest. I appreciate the dire challenge a woman faces…