By Rev. Clinton Chisholm “…there’s no right and wrong just winners and losers…” (a criminal in the movie All Things to All men) “…there’s no black and white….just shades of grey…” (a corrupt executive in the movie No Way Out) The quotations above suggest a rejection of the notion that some things are always…
A Thought For Politicians and Everybody
By Rev. Clinton Chisholm No one and especially no politician can live without hope. By hope I mean “confident assurance about the not yet”, be that ‘not yet’, the next 10 minutes, the next general elections, later today or tomorrow. We are all creatures of hope but not every hope is good hope. If hope…
Legal Philosopher John Finnis on Homosexuality
By Rev. Clinton Chisholm The Gleaner editorial of December 11, 2015 wished luck on Human Rights lawyer Maurice Tomlinson’s constitutional challenge of Jamaica’s ‘buggery law’ and the editorial went on to treat the objection to homosexual acts as informed primarily, if not exclusively by an appeal to religious texts. This view from whomever wrote that…
Silent Grief
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 would miss some still. Can you wrap your brain around the level of grief Williams…
Sabbath & The ‘Two Law’ Theory
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 and placed beside the ark (Deut. 31.26) is what is referred to in the New…
Rasta Origins: Muta’s Myth & Misconception
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. The contention in my book is that the early Rastas confused statements made about Jesus…