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Sacrificial subjects

Posted on March 5, 2022 by Gil Bailie

“While regretting the absence of great figures in our time, we must not forget the army of those nameless ones who suffer in silence, who have offered, and are still offering, a burnt sacrifice that is generally overlooked, in war … Continue reading →

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Memorial Day

Posted on May 25, 2020 by Randy Coleman-Riese

Over the past months since Ash Wednesday we have had occasion to mentioned the nearness of death to each of us as well as our consciousness of it. The recent advent of the coronavirus has impressed on us the former … Continue reading →

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Enthusiastically Ecclesisatic…

Posted on March 5, 2020 by Gil Bailie

“For myself,” said Origen, “I desire to be truly ecclesiastic.” He thought – and rightly – that there was no other way of being a Christian in the full sense. And anyone who is possessed by a similar desire will … Continue reading →

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Christ or nothing

Posted on October 18, 2019 by Gil Bailie

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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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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Gratitude and Sorrow

Posted on October 10, 2017 by Randy Coleman-Riese

                Yesterday my wife and I awoke to the news of a fast spreading fire in our home town of Santa Rosa. We are 2,500 miles away visiting our daughter and her family … Continue reading →

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