28Feb

Reactionary

February 28, 2022 Gil Bailie

The Catholic theologian Henri de Lubac was no reactionary. Quite the contrary, he was a man of great learning and...

21Feb

Songs from Jesus and the Woman at the Well

February 21, 2022 Randy Coleman-Riese

Last week we reposted a piece Gil Bailie wrote in 2009 for Valentines Day. His reflections brought to mind a...

13Feb

February 13, 2022 Gil Bailie

(The following was originally posted on gil-bailie.com in 2009 – enjoy…) Valentine’s Day in the Islamic world brings out the...

11Feb

February 11, 2022 Gil Bailie

“Even in these times of intoxication mingled with anxiety, amidst the most pressing necessities, it is the role of the...

11Feb

February 11, 2022 Gil Bailie

“Isaac reopened the wells dug by the servants of his father Abraham and blocked up by the Philistines after Abraham’s...

09Feb

February 9, 2022 Gil Bailie

“Either everything means something, or nothing means anything. But the first requires belief in God, while the second is perhaps too...

07Feb

February 7, 2022 Randy Coleman-Riese

Our absence from the weblog for the past month has been a result of the vicissitudes of aging as well...

04Jan

January 4, 2022 Gil Bailie

Disciple: one who knows the story of which his life is necessarily situated. The fulfillment of his human vocation will...

04Jan

January 4, 2022 Gil Bailie

Henri de Lubac All has taken place as if the normal domain of man, even the believing man, were the...

04Dec

December 4, 2021 Gil Bailie

In a lecture on the work of historian Christopher Dawson given in 1993, Russell Hittinger wrote: “From his first published...