EDITORIAL - Reasons to celebrate despite adversity
The celebration of Christmas is one ritual to which Jamaicans give whole-hearted attention. For one group of our ancestors, Christmas Day and the day after were the only occasions when, as enslaved people, they were given the opportunity to indulge in revelry...

Genealogies in the Bible: the basics
Those who desire to read the Bible responsibly must understand that they are reading an ancient book and not one written according to the conventions of the 21st century.A biblical genealogy is "a list of names indicating the ancestors...

Bleaching Jesus
A couple weeks ago, on my way to the United Theological College of the West Indies (UTCWI), I heard a newscast about the billion-dollar skin-bleaching industry in the United States. This obsession with having a lighter skin tone ...

The Church and the Epiphany
Christians believe that God is perfect. He is perfectly good, perfectly just, perfectly kind, perfectly loving. God is the epitome of love, of justice, of truth.