01Jul

Listening to voices…from proximity to podcasts

July 1, 2020 Randy Coleman-Riese

For most of human history the only way one person could hear another person’s voice was to be within what...

22Jun

From Faith to Politics to Gnosticism

June 22, 2020 Gil Bailie

“When mystery no longer counts,” then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger said in a 1996 speech, “politics must be converted into religion.” When...

15Jun

June 15, 2020 Gil Bailie

“If we project our own mimetic tangles upon society as a whole, the more entangled we are, the more rigid...

31May

May 31, 2020 Randy Coleman-Riese

In an earlier post Gil Bailie quoted from Hans Urs Von Balthasar suggesting Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI’s current role might...

28May

May 28, 2020 Gil Bailie

Rereading what Hans Urs von Balthasar (quoting in passing Dietrich Bonhoeffer) has written brings to mind the role that Pope...

25May

May 25, 2020 Randy Coleman-Riese

Over the past months since Ash Wednesday we have had occasion to mentioned the nearness of death to each of...

21May

May 21, 2020 Randy Coleman-Riese

In 1921 G. K. Chesterton traveled to America for a lecture tour and upon his return wrote of his experiences...

06May

May 6, 2020 Gil Bailie

Benedict XVI Writing in the 1980s, Joseph Ratzinger (now Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI) quoted a humorous couplet from the German...

30Apr

April 30, 2020 Gil Bailie

This lovely Richard Wilbur poem gives up new secrets every time I come back to it. Two Voices in a...

24Apr

April 24, 2020 Gil Bailie

Imagine reading a splendid poem – using the adjective with all its richness – and being “struck” by its loveliness....