Author Archives: donalddeanchambers

Life is a journey. Our personal, professional, family, religious, political, spiritual, national, or global life can be compared to a labyrinth.  A labyrinth is a serpentine path that slowly moves from the outside to the inside, but only after many roundabout twists and indirect deviations. As a metaphor for life, the labyrinth describes a journeyContinue reading “Life – A Labyrinth”

Rain. Rain. Rain.  I arose to the dawn and was greeted by the sound of rain drops pattering loudly on my roof. Unlike other times of waking up to the morning rain, this time I was motivated to divorce my warm cosy bed and begin my day with morning reading, meditation, and reflection. The soothingContinue reading “Rain”

Conversation, Conversation, Conversation. What a delight to be engaged in heart-warming, uplifting and challenging conversations! Two friends and I spent a weekend like three peas in a pod. A pod that enclosed us in fraternal, spiritual and theological intimacy. As an introverted listener, it was both a delight and a challenge to play the listeningContinue reading “Conversation, Conversation, Conversation!”

On August 14, 2021, forty-five days after the assassination of Haiti’s president, our sister country experiences another disaster – a 7.2 magnitude earthquake on the south western end of the island. In response, my colleagues from the Conference on Theology in the Caribbean Today (CTCT) posted on our WhatsApp chat some profound remarks.  Without furtherContinue reading “Haiti”

Briana Williams, the youngest member of Jamaica’s gold medal 4 x 100 metres women’s relay team at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics posted this on her Instagram: “Just got home and found out that my dear grandmother, who lived with us, passed away soon after I left for the Olympics.”   Loop News reported that sheContinue reading “Communion of Saints”

Last night I watched a French film on Netflix called Street Flow (Banlieusards). It’s a drama that addresses issues of race, poverty, family values and the struggles of a single parent through the lens of a black Muslim family living in the suburbs of Paris.  Soulaymaan, the middle brother, is a scholar working on hisContinue reading “Street Flow”

Hansle Parchment, the 110-meter Jamaican gold medallist at the Tokyo Olympics, posted an incredible and awesome story on Instagram that testifies to a Christ-like figure. Hansle narrates.  On the day of the semi-finals of the 110 meters hurdles, he accidentally boarded the wrong bus. Why?  He was focused on his mobile music. Understandable!  Isn’t it?Continue reading “Hansle Parchment”

In my blog on Renewal and Retreat, I described a dugout area, whose surface was lined with stones in the form of a cross at the edge of the cliff on a property at which I was retreating. Its vertical section is about 24 feet and the horizontal portion is about six feet. One canContinue reading “The Cross and the Environment”

Arising to the dawn today, I remember it’s August 6, Jamaica’s Independence Day!  To be honest, I prefer to celebrate Interdependence Day! Independence from the colonial legacy of Independence and Individualism influenced by a Eurocentric thinking, “I think therefore I am” (Descartes).  Let’s divorce this thinking and remarry the African philosophy of Ubuntu that says,Continue reading “Happy Interdependence Day!”