Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Apart from whether the acts were obstructive, this evidence of non-corrupt motives weighs heavily against any allegation that the President had a corrupt intent to obstruct the investigation. To me, that is the heart of…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT In the mid-1980s, I saw the need to preserve and revive the theological arts. Living in Seattle at the time, I put a name to it: Seattle Society of Orthodox Theologians. My wife…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT USA General and Flag Officers engage in dereliction of duty, again. They treat strategic problems as tactical problems in order to avoid responsibility commensurate with their rank and mission. Avoiding responsibility for strategic…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Self: Ever seen this?: The Liturgy Is The Kerygma. Interlocutor: Not in those words, but the work of the people is to proclaim the Good News. I like [that] because it spreads the…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Democrats cannot gain power without lying, cheating, and stealing. Republicans cannot maintain power without prosecuting Democrats. Who is right and who is wrong? Democrats make war. Republicans prosecute war. Who is right and…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT The Constitution of The United States of America is the supreme law inside the borders of The United States of America. Anyone inside those borders operating outside particulars of that Constitution is a…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Colleges offer courses on ‘queering’ children, the Bible Apparently the writer neglected to survey The Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York. This “project to queer theology [Christianity]” is ancient history…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT DATELINE: The White House 23 September 2018 Transcript: POTUS Debriefs Nobody Present: POTUS Trump, VPOTUS Pence, CoS Kelly, Ivanka Trump, Nobody POTUS: Thank you for coming, Nobody. I know the trip is difficult…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Today the inimitable Sundance made a point with clarity of language I did not have when, four years ago, I condemned ecclesial aide and comfort to criminal entry upon The United States of…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT . . . you see things that have been there all along, hiding, many of them wanting and trying to hurt you. POTUS and FLOTUS Trump and their large and variegated family are…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT The wealth of a nation is her land (geography), her families (morality) and her constitution (system of law), in that order. Her land is a nation’s general, latent wealth. Her families and constitution…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT The terms liberal and conservative have the declamatory puissance of a rabbit addressing an elk convention. Military, diplomatic and financial assets are useless without guidance from a rational grand national strategic objective (RGNSO), of which…
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 Among his collected letters is one from St. Jerome to St. Eustochium, daughter of St. Paula, St. Jerome’s patroness and collaborator at monastery building and administration in Bethlehem. This letter, number…
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 America faces west. Asia is America’s west. The vector of American expansion — expansion is life, contraction is death — points west. It always has. It came west from Europe and…
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 During the decade between the late 1980s and the late 1990s, I produced eighty six meditations titled Docta Ignorantia. The phrase and concept belong to Nicholas of Cusa, the German Cardinal…
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 Life is dynamic, no thing stays the same over time. Essence always is essence, beyond form and energy, beyond dialectics, but existence always is building, re-building, morphing, re-morphing; always existence, always…
