RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Belvedere posted about Winny’s famous quip regarding liberals and conservatives relative to age and maturity. I commented: One day at supper with my sister and parents, when I was under twelve years, making it mid-1950s, the radio station my father made us…
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 I am not unsettled by the shooting in Connecticut. Not unsurprising for people in their affluent, alienated circumstances, refusing to handle a problem: sick child. Meanwhile, 20+ black children are shot…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Every negative emotion, to include hate, has a legitimate place in life. Lots of illegitimate ones, of course, but a few legitimate. One legitimate use of hate is of evil. Hatred of evil…
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 To the Ulema Pretenders And The Khalifah Pretender, Abdullah The Hashemite, Who Convenes Them Grace to you and Peace from God the Father and our Lord and Savior Jesus the Christ,…
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 Correlations exist between what are called Corpus Christianum and Moslem Ummah. What are Corpus Christianum and Moslem Ummah and what is their significance linguistically, theologically, ideologically and as phenomena of history? Corpus Christianum…
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…
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 an absurd notion. Who can tell the difference, and by what measure? The Church is the State. The State is the Church. They are identical twins. Bonhoeffer was wrong.…
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, I have realized that the Baha’i proscription of clergy is in fact a universal proscription for all religions — confirmed, without my seeing it till now, by practice at Puttaparthi and in Sai Centers worldwide. This is also confirmed by personal experience,…
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, The Ministries of the Church Target the Needs of the Times A lady wrote wishing to revive and reinstitute the ministry of 19th Century Divine Charles M. Sheldon of Topeka, Kansas. I replied: The writer of this article on Sheldon’s ministry shares your enthusiasm for…
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 Responding to an inquiry: When I was at the Union Theological Seminary, New York City, 1965 to 1969, I participated with UTS/JTS (Jewish Theological Seminary) faculty and students who were colloquial-izing…
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Inner Necessity and Decisive Freedom The problem basically is theological and involves a spiritual recrudescence and improvement of human character that will synchronize with our almost matchless advances in science, art, literature, and all material and cultural developments of the past 2,000 years. It…
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Memorandum II is here. To: The Rector and Vestry From: The Rev. David R. Graham Date: Friday, March 12, 1999 Subject: Church And The Delivery Of Grace When the German pastors signed the oath to Hitler and…
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, It was a serious question about “preaching” today and a technical one. The background is NT scholarship of the last 200 years, since Reimarus knocked the stuffing out of the scholars and the church. Kerygma is a technical word from the NT meaning “Preaching”…
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 I am very happy the subject of an ecclesiastical, even ecclesiological, paradigm shift is being discussed in the parish. For what they are worth, I am enclosing my thoughts on the…
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 Deposition I: Curriculum For A Theological Education Deposition II: Delusion And The Doctrine Of Original Sin Deposition III: A Festival Composition For The Feast Of The Holy Trinity D e p…
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 A P E N I T E N T I A L F O R M The Confession Let us acknowledge our condition. Gracious Parent, Mother and Father! Our…
