Randy Coleman-Riese, Author at The Cornerstone Forum | fostering a whole-hearted faith in a half-hearted world

Every year (except perhaps during a pandemic) on Thanksgiving Day we gather with family and friends to enjoy a festive...

A recent novel by Trevor Cribben Merrill, Minor Indignities, begins with an epigraph from St. Bernard of Clairvaux: Humiliation is...

While walking down the street one day a US senator is tragically hit by a truck and dies. His soul...

In 2005 journalist Nathan Gardels interviewed René Girard. The resulting article was published in the Huffington Post under the title...

In Bob Dylan’s recently published book, The Philosophy of Modern Song, Dylan provides his unique perspective on an eclectic selection...

Welcome to The Cornerstone Forum’s new website! We have made some significant changes, the most noticeable being the elimination of...

René Girard came to Stanford University in 1981 after a prestigious academic career at Johns Hopkins. Robert Harrison, one of...

In 1861 the newly elected 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, was slowly making his way from Springfield,...

Poems from a Diary 1974 Who will last? And what? The wind will stay, and the blind man's blindness when...

Amid the aftermath of the most recent episodes of civilian slaughter we come to our National Day of Remembrance for...

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