Tag Archives: René Girard

René Girard Via First Things

Posted on November 12, 2018 by Randy Coleman-Riese

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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New Items from the Archives & Notes on a New Perspective

Posted on October 19, 2018 by Randy Coleman-Riese

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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Read All About It! – Spring Newsletter

Posted on April 7, 2018 by Randy Coleman-Riese

Free complimentary downloadable MP3 audio – Part 8 of Gil Bailie’s Reflections on St. Paul’s Letter to the Romans WE wish a glorious Easter season to all! – As a special Easter gift to those visiting us here we are … Continue reading →

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Big Data & Human Sacrifice

Posted on March 2, 2018 by Randy Coleman-Riese

The following comes from an article posted on The Atlantic magazine website: In 1598, a European miner working in the Bolivian highlands stumbled across a 10-year-old Andean girl who was still alive, despite having been walled up inside a funerary … Continue reading →

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Message in a bottle….

Posted on May 22, 2017 by Gil Bailie

Ten years ago Gil Bailie spent time reading University of Pennsylvania scholar Philip Rieff’s works with the following results… To Whom It May Concern: [To European culture today — while it can still be spoken of in the singular — … Continue reading →

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Keeping up with the Cornerstone Forum….

Posted on April 18, 2017 by Randy Coleman-Riese

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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A Lenten Reflection – The Multiplication Table

Posted on March 2, 2017 by Randy Coleman-Riese

The website The Catholic Thing has published a Lenten reflection by Gil Bailie entitled, The Multiplication Table. It is a classic piece of Gil’s work. I especially appreciate the play of the title and the text. ‘Multiplication table’ is not … Continue reading →

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Ten Years Ago….

Posted on October 20, 2016 by Randy Coleman-Riese

August 27, 2006 marked the beginning of The Cornerstone Forum’s foray into what was then already a large and growing online “weblog” phenomenon with the launch of Reflections on Faith and Culture. In 2006 Facebook was mostly a feature of … Continue reading →

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Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar

Posted on September 25, 2016 by Randy Coleman-Riese

After having spent the past two and a half years editing and transferring Gil Bailie’s cassette recordings of Reflections on Dante’s Divine Comedy to the world of digital audio, I am now ready to take on the next transition task. … Continue reading →

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Intellectual Respectability

Posted on May 29, 2016 by Randy Coleman-Riese

For close to three centuries, in all institutions of higher learning, it has not been intellectually respectable to deal with the [Gospel] text except as an object of demystification, and every time we mention it we must take the ritual … Continue reading →

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