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Spring Newsletter
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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Tagged education, Emmaus Road Initiative, manuscript, newsletter, the Bible
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Everything is Broken
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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Tagged Bob Dylan, forgiveness, hope, mercy, original sin, sin, tradition
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Annus Horribilis
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
Awakening in the New Year – Part 2
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
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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Tagged David Goldman, identity politics, Joshua Mitchell, religion, René Girard, scapegoats, society, Thanksgiving
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Reflections on the Girard Christmas Card
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
Holiday Parties (circa 1830’s Maryland)
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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Tagged Frederick Douglass, holidays, slavery
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Thanksgiving retrospective
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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Tagged civil religion, sin, Thanksgiving, worship
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Waiting for…?
Now that our great sacrificial sorting of elected office holders is behind us there remains a residue of uncertainty as to what will happen next. Waiting for the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse to ride through town… with the pandemic … Continue reading
Voter Suppression
Approximately, thirty-four million voters between the ages of 18 and 47 have been deprived of their right to vote in the upcoming US presidential election. They are not felons, though now this is frequently not a reason to be denied … Continue reading
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Tagged abortion, Declaration of Independence, democracy, demography, voting
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