30Apr

The Limitless Landscape of Poetry

April 30, 2020 Gil Bailie

This lovely Richard Wilbur poem gives up new secrets every time I come back to it. Two Voices in a...

24Apr

Standing in awe . . .

April 24, 2020 Gil Bailie

Imagine reading a splendid poem – using the adjective with all its richness – and being “struck” by its loveliness....

17Apr

April 17, 2020 Gil Bailie

“The modification in the spiritual attitude that is contained in this transition from patristic to modern piety can be described...

25Mar

March 25, 2020 Gil Bailie

It is a good time to recall what the Stanford professor Robert Harrison has written in his fine book Juvenescence...

23Mar

March 23, 2020 Gil Bailie

On a virus of a different sort, no less mortally lethal and considerably more morally so: About the fate of...

21Mar

March 21, 2020 Gil Bailie

“In vain we shall search the world before Christ for this kind of outlook of man on his fellow man;...

05Mar

March 5, 2020 Gil Bailie

Henri de Lubac “For myself,” said Origen, “I desire to be truly ecclesiastic.” He thought – and rightly – that...

19Feb

February 19, 2020 Gil Bailie

“Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and...

18Feb

February 18, 2020 Gil Bailie

“The appeal to tradition is not a mere remembrance of the past; it involves rather the recognition of a cultural...

12Feb

February 12, 2020 Gil Bailie

“A false prophet is not one who predicts false things, but one whose guiding principle is not true … one...