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 …
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 …
Pro-choicers and the ‘not a person’ Argument
The notion that that which results from the fusion of a man’s sperm cell and a woman’s ovum called a zygote and up to 12 weeks later in development is not a person seems, on the surface, to be a …
Polls plus: Awkward Questions
It could be because I have never formally studied the Social Sciences why I am ambivalent about the results of polls. I accept that polls can be accurate. However, it is my position that they are, in general, not reliable …
The ‘Own Body Argument’: Sense and Nonsense
The people who favour abortion are correct. A pregnant woman should have the right to decide what happens to her own body. However, we should not go on and talk nonsense beyond that statement which needs proper nuancing.
At a …
Modern ‘Apostles & Prophets’: Biblical or Bogus?
Though I am no longer a Pastor (not in charge of any church) I am still an ordained clergyman within the Jamaica Baptist Union (JBU) but hold no office within the JBU so the views I express in my writings …