The Moravian Church

As Is The Feeling,So Is The Result. The question, Where is The Church?, has been on my mind for decades. Phrased that way, the question can be misleading. The essential character of the question is: Where does authority lie? I posed the question that way to an Irish Benedictine, then a resident at St. Andrews…

Churchmen And I

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT The Last Of The Iron Lungs I remember the Drs looking down on me on the gurney saying I had about 45 minutes before suffocation, they had to work fast.  No freeways, ambulance…

Sex Clubs As Churches

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT I hate puritans for their pontifical sanctimony. Numerous potentials in this one, which, specifically, is long foreseen by me among, I am sure, others. Sexual promiscuity as an evangelical enterprise of a religion…

Re-Forming Western Civilization (The Latin Church), In Partes Tres

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   Out With Political Science – In With Political Philosophy Strategic Goal And Posture: Vigilant Quiet Foreign And Domestic Policies To Implement Vigilant Quiet Labor Improbus Omnia Vincit Out With Political…

Is The Latin Church Disbanded? Is Humane Civilization Extinct?

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 Well, if The Latin Church isn’t disbanded, it is going quickly to it. It looks to me as though it already is disbanded.  In fact, I would date is disbanding to…

Winston S. Churchill III On The GWOT

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Winston S. Churchill III is grandson to Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill.  Speech in Raleigh, NC, 03MAY06, on war against Islamic Fundamentalism. AMDG

Third Church Ecumenical Council

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. I proposed: Is not the Church – as distinguished from the churches in the sense of denominations, counting Vatican among them — in need of a Third Church Ecumenical Council, after Nicaea and Chalcedon, to formulate and promulgate a creedal/confessional statement that aims…

On Transcending The United Church Of Christ

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, A close friend recently removed themselves from the membership roles of the United Church of Christ. I responded with several notes over a period of days, as follows: First: Thanks, and I a UCC ordinand and ECUSA member! Well, at least I…

Separation Of Church And State?

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.…

Churches Devolved Into Moral Clubs

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Letter to Katherine A. Kersten regarding her essay of 17 September 1999 in the Wall Street Journal, To Hell With Sin. Your essay is very nice, right on the reality. The line that especially resonates with me is: Largely drained of doctrine, [the church] strikes…

For The Vestry and Staff of St. Thomas Episcopal Church

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 We are living in a Global Village (R. B. Fuller). We always have been living so, but certain circumstances enabled us to disregard the fact. Our people are dealing with adherents…

Attitudinal Data Points — October 2023 to May 2024 — Let’s Face Facts

The foregoing is the root of USA Foreign Policy, and as such, a correlate of the Primakov Doctrine, the root of Russian Foreign Policy. We start with the most recent: By dumbing down your schools, you have degraded your own security, military ability, and even moral courage and spiritual serenity. A consequence of Nominalist, Positivist,…

Our Job Is To Manifest The Holy Spirit

The foregoing is the root of USA Foreign Policy, and as such, correlates of the Primakov Doctrine as the root of Russian Foreign Policy. Universe means Turns to One Controverse means Turns to Conflict The universe is properly named.It always turns to one.Think Genesis 1. A nation’s most precious data is their war correlates, the

Attitudinal Data Points – August To October 2023 — Let’s Face Facts

The foregoing is the root of USA Foreign Policy, and as such, correlates of the Primakov Doctrine as the root of Russian Foreign Policy. Vladimir Putin and his team reestablish Russia in pan-religious, pan-spiritual cultural ground. Historians generally think that The French Revolution was a rejection of their leadership caste, both civil and religious, by…

Authority, Legality, Rules, And Titles [revised]

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 work together unto good, to such as, according to his purpose, are called to be saints. The Protestant Reformation was necessary in order to separate two lines of…

Attitudinal Data Points – April To August 2023 — Let’s Face Facts

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 work together unto good, to such as, according to his purpose, are called to be saints. You’re always in friction, competition, struggle, conflict with someone.The goal is to…