AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA John Hinderaker: These days, it seems that pretty much all of our cultural indicators are pointing downward. I commented: Perhaps. Seems is a caveat, as you know. More than that, The Almighty’s arithmetic is not the same as ours and He is unaccustomed to miscalculating. What was the line, a step or…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT It’s like we are governed by Bolsheviks bent on destroying everything decent in order to wield their control over what’s left. [Democrats] are a gigantic hate group, in other words, and are far larger…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Perhaps conservatives should rebrand using the word justice. For example: Intellectual Justice, Historical Justice, Political Justice, Cultural Justice, Religious Justice, Emotional Justice, Moral Justice, etc. Socialists want to co-opt the language. Fine, back…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT It really is not true that college is for free and open conversation. Nor should it be true. College — all schools, really — is for imbibing the wisdom of the ages, the…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT A Homily for Versifer The purpose of life is to laugh, to dance, and to sing. Any activity not of that nature wastes time or subverts life. You hold God’s Song Book so…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT A Homily for Crucifers Hold high the Cross. You carry the battle standard of the Church Militant. Hold high the Cross. You are leading the Family of God under this battle standard. Hold…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Prologue Christmastide are the days on both sides of Christmas Day, which is also called The Mass of the Christ, The Feast of Christmas, and The Feast of the Nativity. Christmastide consummates the…
In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Against the day they might be convenient as accessible from one post, I link here on church, here on ecclesia, here on theology, here on religion, and here on clergy to what I believe to be the most important studies in ecclesial philosophy — my secondary life-long central interest…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT So Sweet: Father Soloist, Son Conductor, Six Curtain Calls Political division in a country is a feature. Cultural division in a country is a bug. A culturally divided country cannot stand. Political division…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT War is the steady-state of history, human and otherwise. Those who win the wars of their times are revered. Those who do not are not. That is all. Germans of recent memory lost…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Allowing women into the priesthood (Episcopal Church, Congregational Church-UCC) was a huge mistake and the founding of our estate of aggressive confusion. Women did not ask for that. Bull Dykes did, and they…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Christian seminary president doesn’t believe in Resurrection, Virgin Birth, Heaven, or Miracles Back in the day, what a Union President had to say would be front page NYT, not level 3 blog. Still,…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVDs_z1G95c Glenn Reynolds today posts a mini-essay of great authority that parallels the decorum motif upon which I wrote twice recently and have addresses more often. I take the liberty of quoting Glenn’s mini-essay in full…
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 One of the counselors and the historian publishing at Power Line regularly remark on POTUS Trump’s absence of decorum, his [to them] infuriating insouciance, even apparent disdain for decorum: this president does not…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT I have quoted Tillich on this subject before now. I return to it as a strategic opportunity in view of the grand conflict playing out in front of us, within us, and for…
