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The Bible: Beauty and Terror Reconciled (TBBTR)

Next to parenthood, this book is the achievement of which I am proudest. The intellectual and emotional processes that brought TBBTR into being have defined who I am in ways I can hardly explain.

TBBTR outlines the main features of the evolution of my faith from a brand of escapist evangelical fundamentalism, into the more balanced, reality engaging, authentic, reformational quality of faith I enjoy today. The writing of TBBTR was a labour of love and liberation, that deeply taxed my reserves of patience, perseverance and courage - not to mention the scholarship that went into it.

Now, after a delay of about sixteen years, TBBTR finally becomes available this April! For just £12, you can have an electronic copy of the book that I believe has made a catalytic contribution to the global renaissance of religion we have been witnessing for the last decade and a half.

Better yet, by signing up for Intelek International's Creole Complementarity Interactive Technology (CCIT) project, you can help to spread the message of holistic (faith and reason reconciling) education that has been quietly transforming our world. Click here for details about CCIT. To purchase a copy of TBBTR send a request to poeticjazztice04@yahoo.co.uk.

 

 

The Word Becomes Flesh (TWBF)

I published TWBF in 2001 as part of a broader initiative commemorating Barbados' contribution to the historic United Nations World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related forms of Intolerance (WCAR). That Conference was held in Durban, South Africa and a review is scheduled for April this year.

As with TBBTR, a key concern of TWBF is to address the issue of academic prejudice: that is, "the ignorance, fear, self-interest and/or self-delusion of both 'religious' and 'secular' thinkers and educators". I have long held that this kind of prejudice is responsible for the gap between conventional concepts of "faith" and "knowledge" and, as such, is one of the greatest challenges humanity faces. The current, escalating debate between atheists and religious persons in the UK and elsewhere today, confirms this.

Unfortunately, the TWBF project did not acheive its full potential in 2001, as I became distracted by the tragic events of 9/11.

However, I initiated a revival of the publication last year, even before I had heard of the UN review Conference planned for this year. Providentially, one might say miraculously, this revival coincided with the historic activation last year, of the European Organization For Nuclear Research’s (CERN) Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment: the so-called "Big Bang" experiment that is reportedly seeking to uncover the origins of the universe.

The link between this speculative, so-called "blue skies" research and Intelek's TWBF initiative is obvious to me, not least of all because I had used a cross-sectional diagram of an anti-matter machine - which is what the LHC is, roughly - on the cover of TWBF in 2001.

You can purchase a signed copy of the commemorative TWBF booklet for £3.40, including postage (£2.40 without postage).