Tag Archives: history

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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The Intoxication of Violence

Posted on July 21, 2020 by Gil Bailie

“Since satisfactory answers [to the question of the meaning of human existence] have not been found apart from Christ, there is an attempt today to cancel the questions or at least to rob them of their dramatic quality. We are … Continue reading →

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On the Fourth of July in 2020

Posted on July 4, 2020 by Gil Bailie

My thoughts in these troubled times are sober and sobering ones. Ours is a period in history fraught with peril and uncertainty. But it has been in such times as these that our faith has rekindled itself. The world is … Continue reading →

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A Viral Hegemonic Discourse

Posted on March 16, 2020 by Randy Coleman-Riese

Over the past weeks it has been amazing to see how quickly our focus has shifted from what seemed at the time matters of urgent concern to another crisis of world altering dimensions. As we all hunker down and pray … Continue reading →

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Patriotism or Hatriotism

Posted on July 5, 2019 by Randy Coleman-Riese

In commemoration of America’s celebration of Independence Day Gil Bailie posted a link on the Cornerstone Forum’s Facebook page to a book review written by Tim Rice of Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story, by Wilfred … Continue reading →

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Winners & Losers…

Posted on May 3, 2016 by Randy Coleman-Riese

“There is a secret gnawing certainty that tells us that in success there is always a residue of impurity, in victory always a residue of coarseness … that there is and can be complete purity only in misfortune, and that … Continue reading →

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Pointing Beyond…

Posted on April 10, 2016 by Randy Coleman-Riese

Christ’s Cross is indeed not one historical fact among others to which a natural process can more or less arbitrarily be related: it is the fundamental, ontological presupposition of all natural processes that all, knowingly or not, intrinsically signify or … Continue reading →

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Liberation of man…social emancipation

Posted on October 30, 2015 by Randy Coleman-Riese

For those who speak of being on the right or wrong side of history — that old Hegelian-Marxist axiom — the renown French theologian has a reminder: “‘Liberation of man,’ understood as a social emancipation, is a human undertaking which, … Continue reading →

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The Right Side of History

Posted on June 3, 2015 by Randy Coleman-Riese

Those who prattle on about being on the right side of history are the Pied Pipers who are leading us into a post-historical and post-cultural wilderness — as the great historian Christopher Dawson saw so clearly in 1938 (just before … Continue reading →

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