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07Aug

A Meditation on a Meditation

August 7, 2025 Rico McCahon Blog
A Meditation on a Meditation by The Cornerstone Forum upon reading Anthony Esolen on John Donne’s Meditation XVII Read on...
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31Jul

Mirror Neurons and the Mimetic Body

July 31, 2025 Rico McCahon Blog
Mirror Neurons and the Mimetic Body by The Cornerstone Forum Read on Substack
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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 Substack
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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 Substack
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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