23Aug Resurfacing from a Summer slump August 23, 2024 The Cornerstone Forum Blog We apologize for the dearth of activity over the past month. Competing summertime duties for us have limited our ability...Read more
02Jul From Romano Guardini’s “The End of the Modern World,” 1957 July 2, 2024 Gil Bailie Blog “From the standpoint of the bureaucracy in charge, any resistance on the part of those mistreated is equivalent to revolt,...Read more
30May Hope amid despair May 30, 2024 The Cornerstone Forum Blog Through a glass darkly… Here in Northern California Springtime has brought a lush green beauty to the land that renews...Read more
25Apr From Stumbling Block to Cornerstone April 25, 2024 Gil Bailie Blog Reflection by Gil Bailie When I look back over the more than 30 years during which I have explored, and...Read more
29Mar “Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good.” – T. S. Eliot March 29, 2024 Gil Bailie Blog Saint John Henry Newman: “How are we to look at things? This is the question which all persons of observation...Read more
26Mar In the crowd on Palm Sunday… March 26, 2024 The Cornerstone Forum Blog I am in The Crowd on Palm Sunday anticipating the arrival of The Messiah. What exactly am I anticipating? What...Read more
18Feb A Presidential Lenten Valentine… February 18, 2024 Randy Coleman-Riese Blog This month provides a number of themes for reflection, our national holiday honoring Presidents (specifically the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln...Read more
14Feb Valentine’s Day February 14, 2024 Gil Bailie Blog The German poet and cultural historian, Rudolf Borchardt (1877-1945): What they want, they cannot give.And people only give what they...Read more
20Jan Logos Spermaticos: Moral and Mental Nulification January 20, 2024 Gil Bailie Blog Words are for propagation. All cultures propagandize in that non-pejorative sense, and when they are no longer willing to do...Read more
10Jan Romano Guardini on the Role of the Nation January 10, 2024 Gil Bailie Blog In the face of a powerful globalist movement, whose siren songs are as anthropologically dubious as are those now undermining...Read more
Resurfacing from a Summer slump
From Romano Guardini’s “The End of the Modern World,” 1957
Hope amid despair
From Stumbling Block to Cornerstone
“Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good.” – T. S. Eliot
In the crowd on Palm Sunday…
A Presidential Lenten Valentine…
Valentine’s Day
Logos Spermaticos: Moral and Mental Nulification
Romano Guardini on the Role of the Nation