Author Archives: donalddeanchambers

This morning I am feeling disturbed, distraught and dismayed.  It’s Saturday, July 17, 2021 – my eldest brother’s birthday…my brother affectionately called Alfie.  Happy Birthday, bro.  Oh!  My feelings aren’t because it’s my brother’s birthday. My apologies.  While writing this blog, I felt inspired to mentioned Alfie’s birthday.  The headline of today’s edition of theContinue reading “Accountability, Restitution and Sorry”

Someone once commented: “I left the private sector to work in the Church full-time, thinking that it’s a more loving, merciful and compassionate environment. After one year, I literally escaped, totally disappointed.”  On a separate occasion, I listened. “I don’t wish to get involved in church committees. I will give my financial contribution. Too muchContinue reading “Integral Human Development”

The COVID-19 pandemic resurrected my motivation to watch movies. I watched a Hindi movie with English subtitles called Do Paise ki Dhoop Chaar Aane Ki Baarish, translated Of Rough Weathers of Life. In this art film, Juhi is an aging prostitute whose 12-year-old son Kaku is wheelchair-bound. She finds it challenging to take care ofContinue reading “Sharing our Incompleteness”

Many secular movies have Christ-like figures. I watched one recently.  It’s a French movie called Mon Frère.  After being accused of the murder of his father, Teddy, a black boy, ends up in a Closed Correctional Facility, where other young minors like him get the opportunity to “reform” themselves before they end up in prison.Continue reading “Movies and Christ Like Figures”

I have a rectangular shaped standing fan – abandoned and ignored for a long, long, time.  From the time immediately before the birth of the COVID-19 pandemic. Why?  Its blades were intimate friends with dust particles. Plus… personal laziness! Out of the blue, my motivation to clean it resurrected. I marched it outside. Commandeered aContinue reading “Fathers’ Traits”

Women!  Caribbean Women!  I came forth from a woman, nurtured at her breast, shaped by her thinking, catechized by her lived faith, taught to do theology, worked side by side in ministry, walked hand in hand, edited books togethers, and cuddled in her friendship.  “But, why are we still invisible in the Church?” remarked aContinue reading “Woman! Caribbean Woman!”

I was alone in the office today. It was 10:00 a.m. COVID-19 restrictions have isolated all staff members. The gate bell rang.  “Who’s it?” I thought. “A Federal Express delivery!”  Expecting a package from Jamaica. “The water company delivery man?” “A bearer?” “Who could it be this time?” I recused myself from the computer andContinue reading “Absolute Attention”

Feeling overwhelmed, overburdened, frustrated by a “thorn in the flesh” (2 Cor. 12: 7-9) is a recurring decimal in the spiritual life. If you have had a prickle stuck in the flesh of your hand or feet, you know the frustration to get this tiny and annoying enemy out. Almost like the corona virus, itContinue reading “Darkness – An Unusual but Necessary Friend”

In the post-resurrection narrative of Luke 24:13-35, the Risen Christ, unknown to the two disciples journeying to the village of Emmaus asks them, “What are you talking about as you walk along?” As the world and the Caribbean region grapple seriously with managing the spread of the Coronavirus, the imposed restrictions have gravely impacted bothContinue reading “Dialogue – The Key to a Post Covid-19 Church!”