Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Long ago in Seattle, the city council wanted to sell their steam plant on the east side of Lake Union. They received offers and wanted to accept one from a biotech firm. The…
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.…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT You know, Octavian, it’s quite possible that when you die . . . you will die without ever having been alive. Mark Antony to Octavian, Cleopatra, 1963 FFrreeeeddoomm ! ! ! Breathes there…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Script highlight, from Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather, Part III: “DON Tommasino (in Italian) “Your enemies always get strong on what you leave behind.” MICHAEL (in Italian) “Don Tommasino, who…
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 Evergreen State College is owned by the taxpayers of Washington State. Faculty, staff and politicians premise that their grads have no jobs ahead of them and that they can destroy vestiges of living-wage…
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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wZnq7S3LPg Albert Schweitzer said that by age 28 a man or woman has an experience which make them an adult or, if not, he or she remains a permanent adolescent. I…
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 aware of an Ivy-level Divinity School or Theological Seminary that is Christian. None has been for decades. U Chicago’s may be an exception. I have not kept up there.…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT So far, some Jihadis are answered but not Jihad itself. … told many times one is coming, still we have no announcement of strategic war to annihilate ISIL and the Salafi Jihad altogether. Jihadis…
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 Venite ad me omnes qui laboratis et onerati estis, et ego reficiam vos. Matthew 11:28, Latin Vulgate text by St. Jerome. Eleven years ago, in 2006, I put in writing observations and…
The truth is like a lion. You do not have to defend it. Let it loose. It will defend itself. St. Augustine of Hippo 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 Set-Up Last month, The Washington Compost produced…
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 Spong’s solution has not worked. It could not work. Personally, I think the conservative churches are not more Christian than the mainline ones, which all are now collectivist/socialist/secular. And conservative churches certainly are legalistic,…
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Well, for one thing, Hillary in the White House will throw some of the PL Team in prison and bust your wives and children out of their jobs, families and inheritances, and do likewise to a whole…
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…
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Scott Johnson, of the Power Line team, is a sweet man with a compassionate grasp of humanity’s experiences. In response to last evening’s contestant drama at the Miss Universe Contest, he writes feelingly today about life’s reversals and…
