On Sunday evening (July 4) The Social Issues Study Commission of the Jamaica Baptist Union convened a webinar titled ‘Vaccinate or Vacillate’. Owing to a prior commitment re US Independence anniversary I caught only a piece of a most informative …
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Rethinking Negatives
Ordinarily we all think of a negative as a bad thing. However the pandemic has forced us to rethink this tradition since testing negative for some dreaded disease is a welcome outcome. The same applies when a female tests to …
Father’s Day: A Radical Sermon Introduction
The 20th century was, arguably, the first century in human history that a call for men to arise was necessary and rang with urgency because the 20th century was the first century in human history that men had not been …
Covid-19 Vaccine, Mark of the Beast & Biblical Common Sense
I became a Christian at age 17 (1967) and grew up spiritually within a Pentecostal Assembly. As far as I can recall I was intellectually inquisitive and learned by asking hard questions. In the Christian circles in which I moved …
Logic for Lawyers and Medical Examiners
For days it has been on my mind and each time it intrudes I tell myself “leave it outside the off-stump Chisholm, you have too much on your plate to do” The intruder is the urge to write a bit …
A ‘Spiritual’ Cliche Revisited
It has become quite popular in certain churches and so demands examination: the epithet “I decree and declare…”. A cursory analysis of the two verbs should be helpful.
To decree is to order/ordain/proclaim something, with unquestioned authority or power associated …