Principle I The United States have no interest in the domestic affairs of other countries and expect other countries to reciprocate by having no interest in our domestic affairs. The United States have interest in the lines of communication running between The United States and all other countries and expect all other countries to bear…
For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.Galatians 5:1 My speech and my proclamation were not with plausible words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit and of power, so that your faith might rest not on human wisdom but on…
The old standards remain the standards.Fundamentals have not changed, only incidentals. We go here and there looking for God.Truth is, we are ever only looking right at Him. Scimus autem quoniam diligentibus Deum omnia cooperantur in bonum, iis qui secundum propositum vocati sunt sancti. And we know that to them that love God, all things…
The old standards are still the standards.Fundamentals have not changed, only incidentals. We go here and there looking for God.Truth is, we are ever only looking right at Him. We have the fixings for a Battle of Athens (and here) on a national level. And again, over stuffed ballot boxes. The stuffing has to get…
I have not read this man’s book. This review of it impels me to commend it to attention. It walks the path of The Mother Era. Rory Groves: Durable Trades: Family-Centered EconomiesThat Have Stood the Test of Time “If there is anything that can withstand the nihilistic effects of modernity and the uncertain outcomes of our…
As Is The Feeling,So Is The Result. These studies date from early years of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF): 2004 to 2006. One perceives in them the U.S. Army coming to grips with terra incognita. They represent a rich retrospective for formulating lessons learned, lots of insights, answers, and projections to test against outcomes. Of note is…
As Is The Feeling,So Is The Result. An old saying, usually expressed in terms customarily considered obscene, references the phenomenon of someone’s placing their personal waste inside something important to them, that belongs to them and should be kept in condition to fulfill its purpose: their cereal bowl, their back yard, their bed, etc. By…
As Is The Feeling,So Is The Result. Thandava And Christian Culture Storms in life are inevitable and unavoidable, even necessary. Internal storms are more dangerous than seemingly external ones. Great and revered are those who can ride out storms to safety. How do they do that? They do that by keeping their minds calm, preventing…
The One Is Indivisible The Truth Is The Whole The answer, sufficient if not complete, is the family — husband, wife, children — the primal structure of existence, who make the whole perishing thing work and happily. The family is the indicated and necessary ecclesial polity, the one persisting ecclesial institution. It is monastic. There…
The One Is Indivisible The Truth Is The Whole They should be arrested for disturbing the peace. And hauled up on charges of sedition. Observed at scale, several geo-strategic phenomena arrest one’s attention by way of their systemic import. One is the failure of the Trump administration, in the company of numerous and distinguished nation-states, so…
The One Is Indivisible The Truth Is The Whole The heart has its reasons reason knows not of . . . . We grasp the truth not by reason only but by heart as well. Blaise Pascal The gist of this famous statement is that man cognizes reality (truth) both directly (heart) and indirectly (reason); we…
The One Is Indivisible The Truth Is The Whole Trade is one type of communications. When discussing trade, one is discussing communications. A synonym for communications is logistics. The root of the word logistics is the Greek word logos. Logos capitalized is Greek for Reason in Stoic mystical philosophers’ sense of universal and essential order…
The One Is Indivisible The Truth Is The Whole Putin, Modi, Trump, all Sissi, and Abe should agree an outcome for MENA then make it happen. However, Singh is optimistic: “This [is an] extremely winnable race because nobody likes Cory Booker. Also, people are sick of the fact that the left-wing policies [are] choking the common family.…
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 The first thing is to recognize the facts, the essentials, the constants, the fundamenta, the intrinsic phenomena. These are distinguished from the variables, the ephemera, the partialities, the extrinsic phenomena. This…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT The sense of distinction is different in each of the stages of yoga. In karma yoga (thamasic, no vedantha), it is vivid and necessarily so. In bhakthi yoga (rajasic, qualified vedantha), it is…
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 Looking Into the Abyss Decades of entrenched simony have left ECUSA and other Christian judicatories weak to the point of forcing consolidation of officer corps (clergy rosters) in order to have…
