Two respected clergy colleagues have gone public in support of decriminalizing buggery. These are my former UTCWI lecturer in Psychology, Dr. Howard Gregory, Anglican Lord Bishop of Jamaica and my JTS classmate and former boss Dr. Garnett Roper. President of …
Author: Clinton Chisholm
Chuck Challenges the Church’s Old Teachings
I have read that our Justice Minister, Delroy Chuck has suggested that parliamentarians should tackle the Church about its adherence to centuries old moral teaching from the Bible, but I refuse to believe the report.
No lawyer of Mr. Chuck’s …
For Public Speakers and Singers
For many years now I have been troubled by the pronunciation howlers I hear from people who ought to know better. Such persons include Prime Ministers and other Parliamentarians, Parsons, Lawyers, Doctors, Lecturers/Teachers, radio and TV personnel and company Executives.…
Leadership Slackness in State and Church
The recent reports of elected parliamentarians who regularly miss meetings, at times without offering an apology galls me.
In my experience as a Pastor and talking informally with other Pastors, this slackness is rampant also in church leadership circles. Add …
Henry Garrett and White Myths
There is, among some white folk, the view that, once you think of ancient Africa (or modern Africa for people like Garrett) you think of a monolithic primitive society and of ‘savages’. Ignorance is commingled with ethnocentric or racist arrogance …
Shoddy Arguments About Blacks in History
Afrocentrism and Black consciousness are necessary as correctives to white myth-making ventures and as means of enlightenment for Blacks though, at times, there needs to be greater linguistic care in some of the assertions made during the corrective project. We …