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Analysis Of The Cross & The Machete

In today’s Sunday Gleaner, Eron Henry does an analysis of Devon Dicks’ “The Cross & The Machete“, asking the question ‘who were the Native Baptists?’ “According to Devon Dick, author of The Cross and the Machete – Native Baptists of Jamaica, Native Baptists were a distinctive 19th century religious movement in Jamaica. These were Christian [...]

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Review – The Cross & The Machete

In today’s Sunday Gleaner newspaper, Alfred Sangster reviews Devon Dick’s book, The Cross and the Machete. “This is the second book by Devon Dick which deals with Jamaican church matters. The subtitle of the book: ‘Native Baptists of Jamaica, Identity, Ministry and Legacy’ is really what the book is about, for the book is a [...]

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Reverend Devon Dick – The Cross and the Machete: The Native Baptists of Jamaica – Identity, Ministry and Legacy

There’s a new book by Reverend Devon Dick (an ordained Baptist minister) which takes a look at Jamaica’s Morant Bay Rebellion (1865) from the perspective of the Christian faith motivating political activism. In the book, Reverend Dick argues that Baptist Deacon, Paul Bogle, and Assemblyman George Williams Gordon, were propelled to protest inequalities and injustices [...]

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