Sunshine Cathedral Blog

Q&A by the Reverend Doctor Durrell Watkins, Senior Pastor
Question: Why did Jesus say he was dying for his friends? What does that mean?
Answer: I have no idea if Jesus said he was dying “for” his friends.Remember, Jesus didn’t write the gospels. People wrote those stories 40 – 70 years after Jesus’ death, so lots of [...]

Healing Rays: A Progressive, Positive, Practical Weekly Reflection
by Durrell Watkins
“[Human-beings are] Life and Intelligence expressed.” Myrtle Fillmore
Have you ever noticed that we tend to think of people in the past (Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Mother Teresa,Socrates, Buddha, Jesus, Helen Keller, Eleanor Roosevelt, Sojourner Truth, etc.) as being “great”. But we think of ourselves [...]

Early this summer, Rev. Robert Griffin was invited by Micah Fink of PBS to take part in a taping of HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean specifically focusing on homophobia and religion in Jamaica through the outreach of Sunshine Cathedral in Jamaica.
The Pulitzer Center on [...]

Q&A by the Reverend Doctor Durrell Watkins, Senior Pastor
Question: You preach a message of optimism and self-esteem. But how do you account for biblical messages like the one in Isaiah, chapter 64 that says, “All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags”?
Answer: There are [...]

Sharing the Light is an Internet talk show where Reverends Durrell Watkins, Robert Griffin, and others discuss theological questions of interest to our community.
In this episode of Sharing the Light, Sunshine Cathedral’s Senior Pastor Durrell Watkins speaks with Light University Academic Dean Robert Griffin and Michael Diaz, Volunteer Coordinator / Miami Outreach Coordinator. We invite [...]

This past week, the LGBT community around the globe learned of yet another horrific attack on a gay man that resulted in his death.
John Terry, a British honorary consul living in Jamaica, was strangled and beaten to death by someone police believe to have been close to John. A note found on his bed referred [...]

Healing Rays: A Progressive, Positive, Practical Weekly Reflectionby Durrell Watkins
“We are all meant to be mothers of God, for God is always needing to be born.” Meister Eckhart
Christian mystic Julian of Norwich is known to many of us for her affirmative prayer, “All shall be well, all shall be well, and all manner of things [...]

Speak Out Against Homophobic Violence
Since 1997 Amnesty International has recorded the murders of more than 35 gay men in Jamaica. 32 incidents of mob violence have been recorded in just the last 18 months. And last week, another gay man was attacked and brutally murdered in that country.
John Terry, a British diplomat living in Jamaica [...]

by Durrell WatkinsSeptember 11, 2009
September 11th – a day that serves to remind us how dangerous religious fanaticism can be. Fundamentalism and the intolerance it breeds, as well as the violence it tends to promote, is dangerous and potentially lethal whether it calls itself Muslim, Hindu, or Christian.
In 2001 I was living about 60 miles [...]

Healing Rays: A Progressive, Positive, Practical Weekly Reflectionby Durrell Watkins
“Know that you are the power you’re looking for.” Louise Hay
Most of our discontent comes from feeling separated from our “Source.” You may imagine your Source to be the human family, or the universe, or the interconnecting web of all existence. You may call your Source [...]