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 the Bible, one being figures of speech. As God would have it, I think, a…
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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 within denominations). To these charges the Church has had to plead ‘guilty’ or ‘guilty with…
A Controversial Clergyman
Check out the new book, A Controversial Clergyman, by Rev. Dr. Clinton Chisholm. Now available on Amazon.com. A Controversial Clergyman showcases, provocative Newspaper Articles to Foster Critical Thinking on Social, Societal, Legal, Church and Public Speaking Matters. Promoting Critical Thinking Everywhere “In the Caribbean, no commentator or journalist arrives at the level of sophistication represented…
Same-Sex Marriage: A Friendly Exchange
In response to my Observer article on ‘Same-Sex Union/Marriage: Radical Thoughts’ (September 2) a lawyer friend of mine engaged me via email. Below is the exchange. Friend: Very interesting piece on the captioned, but wouldn’t it then be discriminatory for you to not do a same sex wedding whilst doing weddings for heterosexuals? Wouldn’t your conscience be…
Civil Liberties & Judicial Blunders
One of the fears of modern Christians especially (and others) seems to be the coercive legal power of so-called “activist judges who are hellbent on making questionable laws and by upholding precedents from other jurisdictions that are inimical to public morality and societal health”. I find aspects of such contentions persuasive but not logically compelling,…
THE LORD’S PRAYER and THE POPE
So right after this Jamaican mother taught her twins the Lord’s Prayer, her son queried: “Mom, why ask for daily bread; why not ask for a whole year’s supply?” Before his mother opened her mouth, his sister chimed in: “So that it might be fresh, Giovanni!” The Lord’s Prayer, which both of us learnt when…