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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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A Prayer Before Meals
Amid the jarring juxtaposition of a recent school shooting and a royal wedding joining the now too familiar cacophony of daily news, it is the return to prayer that grounds my mind and spirit. And the routine of a prayer … Continue reading
Read All About It! – Spring Newsletter
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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Tagged Amazon, Audible, René Girard, Romans, Shakespeare, Spring, St. Paul
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Filling the Vacuum….
Virgil tells Dante what it was that caused the Assyrian Queen, Semiramis, to be tormented in the region of the Inferno reserved for the lustful. Her sin, however, seems to have been more than just lust, which for Dante is … Continue reading
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Tagged Dante, Islam, Marxism, morality, multiculturalism, sexual liberation, Shakespeare
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Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
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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Tagged Julius Caesar, mimetic theory, politics, René Girard, Shakespeare
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Shakespeare’s Sonnet 129
As an account of our fallen condition and the perennial temptation to escape into a utopian future, has Shakespeare’s sonnet 129 ever been improved upon? Th’ expense of spirit in a waste of shame Is lust in action; and till … Continue reading
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Tagged future, Shakespeare, temptation, utopia
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