If you watched or only heard about the Discovery Channel program on ‘The Lost Tomb of Jesus’, I hope you did not lose any sleep over it. This is just another late but failed attempt at sowing seeds of doubt about the resurrection of our Lord.  The late Caribbean intellectual giant, Professor Rex Nettleford  tried and…

In 2003 I gave a public lecture in Kingston, Jamaica, which provided, inter alia, a rebuttal of the ‘dying and rising Gods/Saviours’ thesis. (see my book Revelations on Ras Tafari, 2008, first edition, 81-87).  Significantly, I invited two lecturers from the Mona campus of the University of the West Indies (Drs. Tunde Bewaji & Clinton Hutton)…

The chain of events from the incarnation through the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ has been called the Christ event.  I would declare, without fear of contradiction, that this Christ event, in terms of its fact and significance, has no parallel in any religion and is either the most intricately concocted fairy tale or…

I am quite fussy about how language is used and while I am quite open to criticism, I take strong objection to being labeled with words concerning which a critic refuses to provide a clear definition. Far too often I hear/read of Christians (in general) being labeled/libeled/slandered as being intolerant because they disagree with some…

“Religion is the greatest source of evil in the world. More wars have been fought and more blood have been shed in the name of God than for any other cause.” (many skeptics, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, et al) If you are a Christian and heard/read the quoted statement above, you might have felt as…

Many years ago, I visited the office of a prominent umbrella church group and saw on one of the walls that now-famous popular quotation from Mahatma Gandhi: “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth leaves the world blind and toothless.” Gandhi (though a lawyer), can be pardoned based on his ignorance…