Leaders Who Love You

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT The great Christian Theologian Paul Tillich observed on numerous occasions that churchmen of his day threw Christian dogma at non-Christians and their own parishioners in the manner one would throw bricks at someone’s […]

Freedom -> Theology -> Religion -> Culture -> Politics

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT To start his famed biography of Christopher Columbus, Admiral Of The Ocean Sea, Samuel Eliot Morison establishes the context of Columbus’ career: Europe dispirited, dissolute, bored and generally lacking in get up and go. […]

Ob Sie Christum Treiben

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Most mainline Protestant churches are, to one degree or another, post-Christian.  If they no longer seem disposed to converting the unbelieving to Christ, they can at least convert them to the […]

The Parable Of The Good Samaritan

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Sacred scriptures are subjected to direct pollution and perverse readings during their eons-long service. Direct pollution occurs as emendation, excision, and elaboration (revising, removing, and attaching).  All sacred scriptures acquire pollution through […]

To The Tune Of Till Jamie Comes Hame

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Now in her green mantle blythe Nature arrays, And listens the lambkins that bleat o’er her braes; While birds warble welcomes in ilka green shaw, But to me it’s delightless-my Nanie’s […]

War And Love

The constants of war are the constants of life because, as Heraclitus observes, “War is the father of all things.”  The mother of all things, I suppose, is love.  So there you have it, war and love, the universal constants, appearing as emotion, chance and reason, von Clausewitz’s Trinity. Update 1: On 20JUN15 Scott Johnson […]

The Gentle Shepherd As Fierce Warrior

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Religion, culture and morality rest upon and arise from six (6) inches of topsoil.  Topsoil comes from lakes, rivers and glaciers.  Water comes from heat.  Fire comes from atmosphere.  Air comes […]

Beyond Partisanship: A Remarkable Description Of Liberals … And Love

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT This is not too long and surprising in its source and date (near the end). I have paragraphed it from the original one paragraph: The news that God has become man […]

A Mother’s Love

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT O, Mother mourns her child’s death, Love and joy she lays to rest, Death has taken her life away, Emptiness is in her breast. Eat all your food dear! What do […]