If you visit a German castle, look closely at the formidable walls, run your hands over the cut stones, feel the exciting stories they tell.

You may ask, of what religious persuasion are you? I will tell you. I am Christian. But something about Japanese spirituality fascinates me.

Yet one of the most glaring and celebrated forms of paganism in the Caribbean and in Jamaica does not stem from African religious practice.

Sublimely, we internalize messages that are death dealing. Acknowledging how we have concurred with these ideas is the first step to change.

As children, we were taught a prayer for every major event of the day. There was a prayer to start the day, a prayer to ring in lunch time,