13Sep

“Deracinated Citizens Lost in an Ocean of Relativistic Chaos”

September 13, 2022 Gil Bailie

“The idea that the law should rule before any one of the citizens is of ancient pedigree, being traceable at...

09Sep

Love and Loyalty

September 9, 2022 Gil Bailie

“Even as a Christian, one remains a Frenchman or a German, an American or an Indian.…But the full development of...

08Sep

September 8, 2022 Gil Bailie

Here is a metaphor for the Christianization of culture, history, and the human imagination, against which so many forces are...

07Sep

September 7, 2022 Gil Bailie

Culture is the soul of a civilization and religion is the soul of a culture. Once a civilization loses its...

02Sep

September 2, 2022 Gil Bailie

In a book published in 1980, the French theologian and patristic scholar Henri de Lubac warned that “a new tidal...

31Aug

August 31, 2022 Gil Bailie

T. S. Eliot said in a radio address in 1937, “When the Christian is treated as an enemy of the...

27Aug

August 27, 2022 Gil Bailie

“Balthasar can already look ahead to his final conclusion: one day, non-Christian humanity will stand before the ‘yawning abyss of...

24Aug

August 24, 2022 Gil Bailie

In Christ, writes Hans Urs von Balthasar, “God breaks forever all the ‘wisdom’ of the world by the ‘folly’ of...

23Aug

August 23, 2022 Gil Bailie

In a 2021 essay in Salvo Magazine, Robin Phillips wrote: “From the French Revolution through to the various Communist revolutions...

23Aug

August 23, 2022 Gil Bailie

For those wearied and disheartened by the corruption and dissipation of the culture formed by the biblical tradition, Balthasar calls...