04Jan

Our particular moment in the drama . . .

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

Henri de Lubac

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...

21Nov

November 21, 2021 Randy Coleman-Riese

Fall has arrived with shorter days, cooler nights, the beginning of another school year…. And our annual Fall Appeal. This...

18Nov

November 18, 2021 Gil Bailie

“There are certain times when one sees springing up in every direction the symptoms of an evil which catches on...

01Nov

November 1, 2021 Gil Bailie

“If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you …” Rudyard...

14Oct

October 14, 2021 Randy Coleman-Riese

One of the frequent joys of bringing Gil Bailie’s recorded presentations from analog cassette tape into the digital world involves...

23Sep

September 23, 2021 Randy Coleman-Riese

In preparing for the In Memorium blog post earlier this month I had been rereading Lawrence Wright’s 2006 Pulitzer Prize...

14Sep

September 14, 2021 Randy Coleman-Riese

It is always encouraging to find others who are working to make the work of René Girard better known. Of...

03Sep

September 3, 2021 Randy Coleman-Riese

As we approach the twentieth anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001 news outlets, internet pundits, and all...