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…
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Hope: Fundamental but Fragile
Whether it is Peter Bunting or Peter Philips re the leadership of their political party or anyone of us in our daily lives, all humans are creatures of hope. But what really is hope? In a nutshell, hope is confident assurance about the ‘not yet’. Be that ‘not yet’ near (later today) or far (September or when…
The Existence of God: Nature’s Evidence (An Introduction)
“The heavens declare nothing really, the firmament showeth nothing really, day unto day uttereth nothing really and night unto night showeth nothing really. There is no speech or language from them, full stop, end of pre-scientific rubbish.” Such would be a possible rewording of Psalm 19 in the hands of the so-called ‘New Atheists’ like Richard…
Michael, Be Fair to God
My esteemed Friend Dr. Michael Abrahams in his column elsewhere in the press (Gleaner, September 7, 2015) contends that God in the Old Testament is not merciful. I am countering with some philosophical and legal pointers. If being merciful is not meting out the [just] punishment deserved by a guilty offender then a plea for or…
Questions that Death Prompts
The year was in the early 1980s in my hometown, Montego Bay. The event? A funeral at Calvary Baptist Church (the old location on Market Street near Sam Sharpe Square). It was a packed church and yard. Most of us who were just passing by had to stand outside the fences hoping to hear the PA…
Reading Puzzling Accounts in the Bible Meaningfully
Puzzling text #1 – Gen. 22 (The call to Abraham to sacrifice Isaac) We begin our series of puzzling texts with that account with Abraham and Isaac that baffles and horrifies even seasoned Christians. I saw a non-Christian comedy cartoon production of this incident. So we see Abraham tying up Isaac, pulled out and raised his…