TWO SUNDAYS ago, we conclude Part I with: “The distinction of his funeral was conveyed not only by the attendance of white landowners, who turned up at the funerals of black elites, such as well-considered slave drivers, but also by the quality of...
It is said that Revivalism, a Jamaican folk religion which is a syncretism of African spiritual practices and European Christian religiosity, started to evolve around 1860 and 1981 through the Great Revival movement. It is practised all over the...
THE CRUCIFIXION and the resurrection of Jesus Christ of Nazareth is the foundation story of Christianity. Jesus Christ, the physical representation of God, the Messiah, sent by God to redeem the world, was betrayed and crucified on a cross on top...
“HAVE YOU ever received the heart-wrenching diagnosis of a special-need for your child? Do you find yourself in tears, overwhelmed by the complexities of navigating the world of special-needs parenting?” Vanesia Bowden asks in a blurb at the back...
AT THE centre of the room inside the Olympia Mini Gallery (OMG) at 202 Old Hope Road in Papine, St Andrew, there is a relatively small thanksgiving table on which there are various objects, including potted plants, evincing various messages. There...
ISAAC BARNES was born to parents who were peasants in Nain, St Elizabeth. He founded the Kingston Christadelphian Assembly at 26½ Mark Lane. As a theologian, the polyglot lived and worked in Liberia, Scotland, Britain and South Africa, from which...
IN 1865, William Booth, a former Methodist, established The Christian Mission to take care of the physical and spiritual needs of the poor and dejected in London. Thirteen years after, in 1878, the name was changed to The Salvation Army. In 1887,...
IN CHRISTENDOM, the birth of Jesus Christ of Nazareth is celebrated on December 25, Christmas Day, which is an important holiday for devout and non-devout Christians, and some people who are not even religious. Yet, in the east African country of...
In 1865, William Booth, a former Methodist, established The Christian Mission to take care of the physical and spiritual needs of the poor and dejected in London. Thirteen years after, 1878, the name was changed to The Salvation Army. Its...
The Salvation Army started out by William Booth in 1865 as The Christian Mission. It became The Salvation Army in 1887. Booth appointed himself the general of The Salvation Army, and his wife, Catherine, was named ‘Mother of the Salvation Army’....
THE SALVATION Army started out in London in 1865 by William Booth as The Christian Mission. It was renamed in 1788, and is the evangelical arm of the universal Christian Church. It was establish to tend to the spiritual and physical needs of the...
IT IS Christmastime again, time for The Salvation Army to put out its kettles at strategic points to collect money to help support its social outreach. It is perhaps one of the few religious movements to use this method to get money for social...
FROM THE very beginning, in the late 1930s, Rastafarianism was opposed by mainstream society – the government and the Church. It was a folk religion started by Leonard Percival Howell, a former Garveyite whose philosophies and teachings were...
THOUGH THE strong breeze blew out most of the candles placed along the roadway leading to the Asafu Yard in the Charles Town Maroon village in Portland, it could not keep away the great number of people who turned up on the evening of Thursday,...
IN THE years leading up to the Sam Sharpe Rebellion of 1831 and right after, pro-slavery conformists, including members of the Anglican Church and anti-slavery agitators, including Christian missionaries, clashed all over Jamaica, with the former...
ON THE morning of May 11, 1977, Elsaida Beckford found her 19-year-old daughter Gretel Barrett’s dead body with a mutilated face in her yard at Sign Irwin, St James. The year before there was a similar discovery, of two women, but nobody was...
THE PASSING of a family member, especially a well-beloved one, can be an emotional and psychological experience, especially under certain conditions. The period of grieving can be very long, while some people recover in a matter of months. It...
WITH CEMETERIES in the Kingston and St Andrew metropolitan region fast running out of public burial spaces, there is an alternative for the final resting places of loved ones. There is now a columbarium garden at the Boulevard Baptist Church in St...
“Tombstones erected at Beaufort Moravian Church (BMC) serve as reminder of persons who would have fanned an ever-burning flame for 190 years. These tombstones highlight the founding workers of the church which was established in 1834 as an...
Revivalism is a folk religion in Jamaica that evolved from the Great Revival of the early 1860s as a syncretism of African spirituality and European religiosity. It is replete with symbolism, which is significantly misunderstood by even some...
Myalism was a religious movement that was started by Africans who were brought to Jamaica to work on plantations. It was regarded as one of the first anti-slavery movements as Myalists worked to free themselves from enslavement, an evil caused by...
December 25 is celebrated the world over for centuries as the birthday of Jesus Christ, who, it is said, was born in Bethlehem of Judea after his parents, Mary and Jesus, fled Nazareth to escape King Herod’s edict to kill all male children. The...
CHRISTIANITY IS a religious movement at the centre of which is the profound belief that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, was sent to save the world from sin. Thus, the essence of Christianity is underpinned by the life, death and resurrection of...
THE OLD City is a 0.35-square mile enclave surrounded by the Walls of Jerusalem, in East Jerusalem. The length of the walls is 2.497 miles in total, their average height being 39 feet, and the average thickness, 8.2 feet. In 1535, when Jerusalem...
HAMAS, THE acronym for harakat al-Muqawamah al-Islamiyyah, and which means Islamic Resistance Movement, was founded in 1987. It is a militant Palestinian nationalist and Islamist movement in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that is dedicated to the...
