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Tag Archives: Gil Bailie
Paradox
In the Gospel reading for Monday of the Second week of Advent Jesus heals a paralytic who has been lowered down through the ceiling of the crowded room where Our Lord has been teaching. It is a well-known story. Luke … Continue reading
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Tagged Gil Bailie, Grant Kaplan, Ivan Illich, joke, Kierkegaard, paradox, paradoxes, René Girard
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A Recent Review of God’s Gamble
It has been over two years since Gil Bailie’s book God’s Gamble: The Gravitational Power of Crucified Love was published by Angelico Press. In that period the book has been reviewed a number of times, most recently by Fr. Dwight … Continue reading
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
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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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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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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Directions
Back when I was traveling from city to city giving talks, I had the luxury of looking into the faces of those with whom I was in conversation. In fact, it was this that both sustained and energized me during … Continue reading
Communicating Hope
We find ourselves back in the same situation as that which the Christians encountered during the decline of the ancient world. Everything depends on whether the Christians … are able to communicate their hope to a world in which man … Continue reading
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Tagged Christopher Dawson, Gil Bailie, hope, support
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Summer Newsletter – Fall Plans…
We recently sent out our Summer Newsletter to all those on our newsletter email list. A link to the latest on what is happening at the Cornerstone Forum appears to the right, just click on the image and read all … Continue reading
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Tagged Center for Ethics and Culture, Gil Bailie, Notre Dame, Randy Coleman-Riese
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Keeping up with the Cornerstone Forum….
We send out a newsletter to our email list 3 or 4 times a year including our annual Fall Appeal. Our Spring 2017 Newsletter is being sent out today. A link to the latest on what is happening at the … Continue reading
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Tagged Gil Bailie, newsletter, Randy Coleman-Riese, René Girard
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