A “Holier Priesthood”? / Spring 2002, As Vatican’s Dioceses Found For Pederast Priests

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 point on which there is significant and nearly universal misunderstanding is the Pope’s sentence, quoted in the Cardinals’ communiqué, to the effect that out of this situation must come a…

Comments On The Levant

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…

Affirmative Action And Race Reparations

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 On The Importance Of Thinking Clearly And Without Intent To Harm 1- The church is a corpus mixtum, some members belong to it and some do not. The church is not responsible…

Ecumenical Theology

Religious Basic Training For Leadership In The Family Of God This is an offer to lead a year-long seminar at St. Thomas Episcopal Church on the subject of ecumenical theology.  Details are: The purpose of this seminar is an assimilation of intellectual and moral content. Meetings are for clarification of material already digested, through recitation…

Unity And The Condition Of Man

On The Importance Of Understanding Tom Jefferson, The Anti-Religionist The nation isn’t going to abide the “wall of separation” concept — which isn’t constitutional, merely Jeffersonian — because it violates the unity principle, which is the spirit of the age and for centuries to come. So we need an articulation well in advance of Mr. Jefferson’s,…

The Knights Of The Temple … Cinema Paradiso

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 On the Importance of Nothing Important The key to understanding the Templars (Knights Templar, Knights of the Temple of Jerusalem [= My God is the Sun/Peace]) is their primary colors, white and…

Ethics And Ethos

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…

How I Got To Be A Bus Driver!

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Wasn’t easy! 🙂 Started in late 60s when I wondered just what the hell a theologian was going to do with their life in this secularized environment. Tried the futurist/communications consultant bit even before graduating seminary but theoretical interest got so far…

My View Of MSFT

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 My view on MSFT is that if being a dominant business were all there were to it, let them at it. But that is not what is really extant. The actual…

Short Takes, AUG98-NOV99

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Another thought on thiswhere does the Kshatriya spirit go” during Kali Yuga?”  The generic and most important answer is that it goes where everything good goes, namely, into the monastery, which is

Guidance For A Young Person Wishing To Homeschool

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 First, let your parents browse our homeschooling resource site and also the links on that page under Online Education and MOOCs. Next, see if there is a program in your area…

The Balkans: A Lesson In Political Philosophy

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT The purpose of this essay is twofold: To illuminate the purpose of NATO activity in the Balkans. To encourage its leaders and participants. Ground:  There are two principles that organize a human community:…

Memorandum I: The Sai Era

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…

Questions For Barbara Thiering

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. In the spring of 1999, I initiated a fairly brief but compelling correspondence with Barbara Thiering, the great Australian master of biblical exegesis.  Dr. Thiering was gracious and generous, helping me with questions I had developed while pondering her works Jesus the Man and…

Preaching And Kerygma

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”…

President Clinton In The Balkans

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, The over-all circumstance in the Balkans is the will of the Vatican, which is the fomenter behind any and all Balkan unrest.  Vatican is Clinton’s political cover.  He never would have survived the recent imbroglio without it.  Vatican is a nation, not a church,…