There’s No Place Like Home

There’s No Place Like Home

From June 26th-30th, 2023 was the week where all participants in the Conference on Theology in the Caribbean Today (CTCT) biennial conference took a step back from the routines of our busy lives to come together and express ourselves in ways that we only get to do in...
Retrospect

Retrospect

{adapted from Gerald Boodoo’s reflections on the occasion of the 25th anniversary Conference held in Trinidad in June 2019} Retrospect – 25 Years As we come to the closing sessions of our 25th anniversary Conference on Theology in the Caribbean Today, there are...
Listening during the pandemic

Listening during the pandemic

Contributing writer Ottrisha Carter shares on her experience of this year’s virtual Conference on Theology in the Caribbean Today, held November 8 to 12. Over the last few months, I was asked to write a few articles about the Conference on Theology in the Caribbean...
Youth forum at theology conference

Youth forum at theology conference

Within our Caribbean culture, there are numerous unspoken elements of contemplation in natural everyday activities like shelling peas, cleaning sorrel, grating coconut, braiding hair, sweeping with a cocoyea broom etc., all done in the “beauty of silence”. “We can...
The Covid effect: Turning the tide

The Covid effect: Turning the tide

“The tide. tide is time, tide is timing, low tide, high tide, it’s the moment, the Kairos” (Don Chambers, CTCT, 2021). In oceanography, the turn of the tide symbolises “a reversal of the direction of motion [rising or falling] …of a tide” (Mc Graw-Hill Dictionary of...