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Category Archives: Blog
Christ or nothing
In 1968, Malcolm Muggeridge resigned in protest as Rector of Edinburgh University because of the university’s relaxation of its policy on drug use by students. His resignation speech – delivered from the pulpit of St Giles Catherdral in a service … Continue reading
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Tagged conversion, drugs, happiness, Malcolm Muggeridge, sacrifice
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Tweet others as you would like to be tweeted
Listening to a symposium on social media and the 1st Amendment hosted by Georgetown University and the Knight First Amendment Institute I heard the above permutation of the ‘Golden Rule’. The entire hour and forty minute panel discussion was interesting … Continue reading
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Tagged Bob Dylan, Facebook, free speech, human nature, original sin, sin, social media, speech, technology, twitter
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A note from film noir….
Something to bear in mind during these difficult times for the Church: At one point, [Orson] Welles – speaking as the elusive crook Harry Lime – proclaims: “In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, … Continue reading
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Tagged film noir, Graham Greene, Michelangelo, Orson Welles, the Renaissance, The Third Man
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A 9|11 Memorial Remembered
Remembering the 50th on the 5th (this was initially posted on our old blog site on September 11, 2006) My father was killed in the Battle of the Bulge on January 7, 1945 a few months after I was born. … Continue reading
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Tagged September 11th, terrorism, tragedy, war, World War II
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Unplanned
Archeologists in Peru have discovered 227 bodies of children sacrificed by the pre-Columbian Chimu culture to appease the gods of wet weather – the El Niño. “Wherever you dig, there’s another one,” the chief archeologist Feren Castillo said. We … Continue reading
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Tagged abortion, civil rights, Harriet Beecher Stowe, human sacrifice, Martin Luther King, slavery
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Waning days of Summer Newsletter
New to the Cornerstone Forum Store This is the last of Gil Bailie’s Reflections on the works of William Shakespeare – and appropriately The Tempest was the Bard’s final play. All those who have signed up for our episodic email … Continue reading
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Tagged belonging, communion, community, globalization, Hans Urs von Balthasar, newsletter, René Girard, Shakespeare, The Tempest
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Without me, you can do nothing
Christian anthropology – based on the revelation of Christ and the philosophical insights which that revelation awakened – insists that grace perfects nature. What isn’t apparent until the grace-nature connection is widely abandoned is that not only does grace perfect … Continue reading
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Tagged anthropology, antinomian, gnostic, grace, nature, nihilism, paganism, revelation
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A Coda on COV&R in Innsbruck (present and past…)
Bleary eyed after 24 hours of travel from Austria to San Francisco the accumulated work of two weeks away from the Cornerstone Forum office awaits me. Before I dig into the pile of paper, emails, and related chores I would … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Péguy, Colloquium on Violence & Religion, immigration, Innsbruck, Islam, René Girard, Richard Wilbur, scapegoats, truth
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A California Yankee in Innsbruck
The Colloquium on Violence and Religion’s 2019 conference is winding up what seems to have recently become its annual attempt to distance itself from René Girard’s Christian and Catholic sensibilities. That this is done in the name of Girard’s understanding … Continue reading
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Tagged Colloquium on Violence & Religion, immigration, mimetic theory, René Girard, suffering
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