Author Archives: Randy Coleman-Riese

Website Update: Podcasts & Streaming Media now online…Hurray!

Posted on May 27, 2021 by Randy Coleman-Riese

The recent troubles with our streaming media and podcasts are resolved. We have moved our web hosting service to a new company and we’ve received excellent support for the transition. There will no doubt be a few remaining glitches that … Continue reading →

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Update: Website Streaming Media & Podcasts Not Working…sigh

Posted on May 18, 2021 by Randy Coleman-Riese

We were informed today of the death of Brian Carpenter, the owner/manager of the small webhosting company from which our website and podcasts are made available. This explains the lapse in tech support we experienced with our recent streaming media … Continue reading →

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Spring Newsletter

Posted on April 19, 2021 by Randy Coleman-Riese

Our Spring newsletter introduces a new series from Gil Bailie’s audio archives, Reflections on The Bible – from Slavery to Freedom: Encountering God in stories. This series was recorded in 1988 when Gil was just beginning to incorporate elements of … Continue reading →

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Everything is Broken

Posted on February 21, 2021 by Randy Coleman-Riese

In a recently highlighted post by Alana Newhouse on the Tablet website entitled Everything Is Broken the author generalizes from her experience with what she describes as a broken US medical establishment to musing on how every other part of … Continue reading →

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Annus Horribilis

Posted on February 16, 2021 by Randy Coleman-Riese

It has been almost one year living in a global pandemic reality. The physical isolation resulting from the cautious distancing of human contact along with the strange and ominous mask wearing is taking a toll on our sense of community. … Continue reading →

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Awakening in the New Year – Part 2

Posted on January 28, 2021 by Randy Coleman-Riese

The following is from Gil Bailie’s new introduction to the audio book edition of Violence Unveiled: At the end of the last millennium, the Dominican scholar Aidan Nichols, issued a clarion call under the boldly retrograde title, Christendom Awake, in … Continue reading →

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Awakening in the New Year

Posted on January 2, 2021 by Randy Coleman-Riese

Which is more difficult, to awaken one who sleeps or to awaken one who, awake, dreams that he is awake? Soren Kierkegaard Some weeks ago I reflected on our American Thanksgiving tradition of civic proclamations of corporate repentance for our sins and gratitude … Continue reading →

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Reflections on the Girard Christmas Card

Posted on December 22, 2020 by Randy Coleman-Riese

In past years in celebration of Christmas we have posted a short excerpt from the Hoover Institutions Uncommon Knowledge series of an interview by Peter Robinson with René Girard recorded in 2009. Viewing it again, I find the combination of … Continue reading →

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Holiday Parties (circa 1830’s Maryland)

Posted on December 10, 2020 by Randy Coleman-Riese

The holidays are part and parcel of the gross fraud, wrong, and inhumanity of slavery. They are professedly a custom established by the benevolence of the slaveholders; but I undertake to say, it is the result of selfishness, and one … Continue reading →

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Thanksgiving retrospective

Posted on December 6, 2020 by Randy Coleman-Riese

Reflections on Civic Religion – public expressions of national faith in God This year’s pandemic transformed holiday traditions have attempted to replace physical with virtual presence to mitigate the spread of the COVID virus. Perhaps those adapted to the virtual … Continue reading →

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