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…

The Churches Are A Corpus Mixtum

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 churches are a corpus mixtum. Some members belong to the Church and some do not. Since, in the churches, those who do not belong to the Church outnumber those who do,…

The Church And The Vatican

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 There is some lack of understanding about the Vatican position on the papacy and the pope. The pope IS Christ. He is God, pure and simple. It is important to understand…

Building The Churches From Here

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…

Paradigm Shift For The Churches

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

Christian Ordination And Clerical Succession: A Memorandum For The Churches

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 Jerusalem means My God is the Sun. Jesus the Christ was a Priest-King in the perpetual Order of Melchizedek.  This Order conducted the worship of the universal God, the Ground of…

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…

Religion Relations

As Is The Feeling,So Is The Result. For at least thirty (30) years before 11SEP01, the matter of relations between the religions, especially major ones as measured by number of adherents, commanded my penetrating attention.  I always knew no fundamental difference separated them.  11SEP01 compelled the observation, already known but not so picturesquely, that mine…

USA Grand National Strategic Objective — Take Three

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 Robert E. Lee’s mother wrote at length once to her sister, concluding with the observation that her letter was long because she did not have time to be brief. I feel…

Meta-Architecture Of Warfare

The foregoing is the root of USA Foreign Policy, and as such, a correlate of the Primakov Doctrine, the root of Russian Foreign Policy. Principle I The United States have no authority in the domestic affairs of other nations and expect other nations to reciprocate by not feigning authority in our domestic affairs. The United…

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,…

Attitudinal Data Points – October to December 2023 — 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 have no general staff; we grant no higher degrees in military science; and, except for Admiral Mahan, we have produced no strategist of international repute. Richard Pipes, Why the Soviet…