RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Two people were viewing pictures of their family recently. One teaches primary school, the other retired some years ago from teaching primary school. The younger pointed to a picture and said, “That’s her.” The elder replied, “That is…
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Though it is erroneously put and hypocritically handled by them, there is a kernel of correct in the Presb/Episc/Method/National Council of Churches, etc. opprobrium for the State of Israel. It goes way back, existed in the 60s — I have first hand…
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Mr. Jean-Bertrand Aristide received an offer he could not refuse. With his removal from Haiti, the last nail is in the coffin of Jesuit Liberation Theology (and here). Liberation Theology (and here) was a political ideology and movement,…
An Offer To Help Secretary Rumsfeld and Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz, I was pleased today to see a news item in the Washington Post that you are pondering the problem of dealing with the madrassas. I am a theologian (Union Theological Seminary, New York City, 1969), a parent of a West Point Graduate and a West…
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,…
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, I am not familiar with optimization theory directly — and do not have the tech math background to follow it in detail — but I am grasping enough from your indications to be able to make a…
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 Tillich no doubt talks about Christian soldiers somewhere — he was one! WWI German Army Chaplain — but I do not know where. He mentions Templars in The History of Christian…
In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT My western boots in the sea of sandals at Whitefield, Bangalore, India were a delightful sight. I was the only one who didn’t have trouble locating their footgear. When Swami finished speaking with me,…
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 Before Swami hauled me in, I had risen rapidly (age 23) to the verge of very great prominence in both academic, governmental and industrial circles. I was a classic “fair haired boy.”…
Guidance And Request For The Bishops Memorandum For The Bishops November 12, 1996 Exegesis of St. John in the desert focuses, usually, on a diet of bugs washed down with a dollop of honey. “Phew !” one thinks, and rightly, “Who would want to eat that?” Well, apart from an assassin or a survivalist, no…
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, This Programme of Joint Worship was first used at Geneva, Switzerland, in September, 1928, at the Preliminary Conference to make arrangements for the Universal Religious Peace Conference. It consists of passages selected from the Sacred Scriptures of the living…
Some years ago, Anson Stokes, the Episcopal Bishop of Boston, put the arm on his fellow New Englander, Trevor Hoy, for a substantial donation to his seminary fund. Trevor was a prominent member of the Episcopal Diocese of California and well-regarded in Berkeley and down the coast for relevant conferences exploring the lineaments of 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 For Irby Henry J. Gauntlett, 1858 (To the rhythm in The Hymnal 1940, ECUSA) OM Sai Rama OM Sai Baba OM Sai Krishna OM Sai Ram Jai Jai Jesus Jai Kasturi…
