HESEDIM

*How can powerful tools like air travel and the internet widen and narrow the developmental and economic gaps worldwide?*

As I return to Zambia I explore in Episode 95: THE WEALTH GAP of the Hesedim Podcast by Reverend Dr. Garnett Roper.

*What are the lessons learnt from the career and influence of Desmond Tutu Archbishop conscience and spiritual leader of South Africa? Are there lessons that we can use for 2022 and for Jamaica?*

The New Year's message is discussed in Episode 94: THE ARCHBISHOP of the Hesedim Podcast by Reverend Dr. Garnett Roper.

*What would drive black power protestors painted tar on the crucifix with the image of Jesus?*

It was not sacrilege but protest against the European captures of Jesus and appeal for the mission of the church to bring the grace and power power of Jesus on the lived reality of oppression and marginalization of the black and brown people's of the Caribbean and the world.

We explore in Episode 93: OPPRESSION of the Hesedim Podcast by Reverend Dr. Garnett Roper.

*What do the incidents of goat thieves behavior after the police recover stolen loot and government senators walk out protest against the opposition say about our need to build capacity to negotiate and build peace in society?*

We highlight in Episode 92: ENTITLEMENT of the Hesedim Podcast by Reverend Dr. Garnett Roper.

How does the text of Romans 22: 1-3, awaken our senses to the systems of this world that perpetuate disparities in development?

This is explored in Episode 91: THE WORLD'S MOLD of the Hesedim Podcast by Reverend Dr. Garnett Roper.

*How does the treatment of African countries in the wake of the omicron Covid-19 variant relate to the message of the Advent that rulers be brought down from their thrones for the humble to be exalted, the hungry to be filled with good things and the rich sent empty away?*

This week's message calls for the great reversal of fortunes in Episode 90: THE MAGNIFICAT of the Hesedim Podcast by Reverend Dr. Garnett Roper.

*Do you think the difficulties and disappointments we are experience are necessary to life?* The word of scripture is that God works in all this for our good.

This lesson inspired from life in Zambia is covered in Episode 89: LIFE'S DIFFICULTIES of the Hesedim Podcast by Reverend Dr. Garnett Roper.

How does the Epistle of Philemon prepare us to protest one of the most intolerable acts of humankind?

In a time of great inequality and when the dignity of ordinary people is being trampled upon, we take the lessons of Apostle Paul which calls for a new spirit of brother- and sisterhood to counter the deepening social stratification in EPISODE 88: SLAVERY of the Hesedim Podcast by Reverend Dr. Garnett Roper.

Why is caring for human beings both necessary and challenging? Why should we prioritize caring for the homeless, mentally ill and vagrant? In this week's podcast I advocate for institutional mechanisms to care for the needy, including the churches roles and structures to this end.

But before we being this message we discuss a related and pertinent question from Reverend Omar Morrison.

All this and more in Episode 87: THE NEEDY of the Hesedim Podcast by Reverend Dr. Garnett Roper.

On this 1st Sunday in November, we reflect on our service to others using Jesus words, "for this as much as you did to the least of others my brothers, you did it to me."

We bring to mind in Episode 86: ALL SAINTS DAY of the Hesedim Podcast by Reverend Dr. Garnett Roper.