Our most privileged aristocracy, The World-Wide Bureaucracy, has bankrupted states, nations, and entire continents so they may preserve and increase their numbers, salaries, benefits, and pensions. As Localized Bureaucracies grow more international in scope, they...
Beginnings of the World-Wide Bureaucracy
The eleventh chapter of Genesis tells us how the World-Wide Bureaucracy began on the Plains of Shinar. The earliest bureaucrats promised people, “We can save ourselves. If you do what we tell you, we can...
What Went Wrong?
We’ve all seen declines in many good things. There is less innocence, less trust, less commitment, less generosity. Who would want that? The answer can be found by considering the last time your computer was...
Reading for October 2, 2011
Reading 1 Is 5:1-7 Let me now sing of my friend, my friend’s song concerning his vineyard. My friend had a vineyard on a fertile hillside; he spaded it, cleared it of stones, and planted...
Today’s Reading, Baruch 4:5-12, 27-29., Tells Us What Threatens Us:
“Fear not, my people! Remember, Israel, You were sold to the nations not for your destruction; It was because you angered God that you were handed over to your foes. For you provoked your Maker...