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Author Archives: Randy Coleman-Riese
Expecting Advent
The season of Advent has always been a time of expectation ever since the first one in that dusty corner of the Roman Empire. The Latin root meaning expresses just this sense of ‘what is to come’. But, what to … Continue reading
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Tagged Advent, apocalypse, climate change, Heraclitus, Mary, the Church
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A Simon of Cyrene Opportunity – Earning a Place in the Story
Gil Bailie recently gave a presentation to the priests and seminarians of St. Patrick’s University and Seminary in Menlo Park. A decade ago St. Patrick’s was one of the stops on the traveling road show of the Emmaus Road Initiative. … Continue reading
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Tagged Gil Bailie, Simon of Cyrene, St. Patrick's Seminary
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Bells & Whistles and Our Annual Plea for Support
The ‘Fall Appeal’, which you may read by following the link, is our annual foray into fundraising and was once described to me as a “begging letter”. I prefer the phrase, “mendicant missive” myself. Alliteration aside, … Continue reading
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Tagged Bells & Whistles, Fall Appeal, Gil Bailie, poems, poetry, Richard Wilbur
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René Girard Via First Things
The journal First Things has recently featured on its website a short essay by Peter J. Leithart entitled ‘Clashing Victimocracies!’ The author explores the privileged and problematic position of the ‘victim’ in current social and political debate. In doing so … Continue reading
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Something Imponderable…
This Sunday marks the 100th anniversary of the end of “The War To End All Wars”. The conflict lasted over four years and involved more than 70 million combatants. An estimated nine million soldiers were killed in the course of … Continue reading
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Tagged Robert Musil, Veterans Day, World War I
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The Religious Backdrop of the Vote
This past week people across the United States participated in the public ritual of voting. These days, though, it is becoming less of a public act at the polling place and more of a private affair with the advent of … Continue reading
New Items from the Archives & Notes on a New Perspective
When Gil Bailie first encountered the work of René Girard in the mid-1980s he had for years been hosting weekly gatherings for discussion of classics from the Western literary and spiritual tradition. These discussions became over time more in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew McKenna, Carl Jung, Elizabeth Jennings, Gil Bailie, Herman Melville, René Girard
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The Work of Humility
Reflections for Labor Day: God gave me being in order that I should give it back to him. It is like one of those traps whereby the characters are tested in fairy stories and tales on initiation. If I accept … Continue reading
Summer Newsletter & Complimentary Download – King Lear Pt 4
Here in California it looks like we are in for another difficult and dangerous fire season. The skies are again hazy with the smoke of numerous not too distant blazes. As we pray for those who fight the fires and … Continue reading
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Tagged Gil Bailie, Humanae Vitae, newsletter, Richard Wilbur, tradition
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The 4th of July Prayer Party
We are aware (and thankful) that we have many friends and supporters who live in countries around the world. Gil Bailie and I pray for those whose names we know wherever they happen to reside. However, today is our national … Continue reading
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