17Jul The Passion of Christ and the End of Blood Sacrifice July 17, 2025 Rico McCahon Blog The Passion of Christ and the End of Blood Sacrifice by The Cornerstone Forum Read on SubstackRead more
19Jun Composite Models: You Are Not a Self-Made Man June 19, 2025 Rico McCahon Blog Composite Models: You Are Not a Self-Made Man by The Cornerstone Forum Read on SubstackRead more
12Jun The Model of Culture June 12, 2025 Rico McCahon Blog The Model of Culture by The Cornerstone Forum Why Every Culture Is Formed by the Models It Elevates Read on...Read more
05Jun Moving the Blog to Substack June 5, 2025 Rico McCahon Blog The Cornerstone Revisited by The Cornerstone Forum A new beginning for Cornerstone Forum, quietly, together. “In my beginning is my...Read more
03Jun What If the Self Were Shaped by Love, Not Lack? June 3, 2025 Rico McCahon Blog In the last post, we asked: If Christ reorients our desires, then the inner structure of the self must be...Read more
29May The True Model Revealed: Christ as the Anti-Rivalrous Model May 29, 2025 Rico McCahon Blog Every desire has a model. This is the fundamental insight of Rene Girard with his mimetic theory: that we do...Read more
27May What If the Culture Is the Model? May 27, 2025 Rico McCahon Blog Cultural Formation and Mimetic Saturation What if the culture isn’t just a background noise, but the model itself? That’s the...Read more
22May Hooked on the “Ifs” — Henri Nouwen and the Mimetic False Self May 22, 2025 Rico McCahon Blog Henri Nouwen once confessed: “A little criticism makes me angry, and a little rejection makes me depressed. A little praise...Read more
20May IFS and the Mystery of Multiplicity – Critiquing Internal Family Systems May 20, 2025 Rico McCahon Blog “You are not broken. You are just complex.” So goes the comforting refrain of Internal Family Systems (IFS), the therapeutic...Read more
15May “The Zealot Who Knows”: Rivalry, Revelation, and the Conversion of St. Peter May 15, 2025 Rico McCahon Blog We often think of envy, rivalry, and scandal as threats to the self. And they are. But mimetic theory complicates...Read more
The Passion of Christ and the End of Blood Sacrifice
Composite Models: You Are Not a Self-Made Man
The Model of Culture
Moving the Blog to Substack
What If the Self Were Shaped by Love, Not Lack?
The True Model Revealed: Christ as the Anti-Rivalrous Model
What If the Culture Is the Model?
Hooked on the “Ifs” — Henri Nouwen and the Mimetic False Self
IFS and the Mystery of Multiplicity – Critiquing Internal Family Systems
“The Zealot Who Knows”: Rivalry, Revelation, and the Conversion of St. Peter