22Nov

Augustine’s Political Archetype

November 22, 2022 Gil Bailie

In his reflections on Augustine’s The City of God Hans Urs von Balthasar makes the following remark, an essential one...

21Nov

Have you thanked God for this failure already?

November 21, 2022 Randy Coleman-Riese

A recent novel by Trevor Cribben Merrill, Minor Indignities, begins with an epigraph from St. Bernard of Clairvaux: Humiliation is...

08Nov

November 8, 2022 Rico McCahon

Since returning from the Catholic Imagination Conference now a month ago, held in Dallas this year, I’m left with many...

08Nov

November 8, 2022 Randy Coleman-Riese

While walking down the street one day a US senator is tragically hit by a truck and dies. His soul...

29Oct

October 29, 2022 Gil Bailie

Reviewing the manuscript on which I am now working, I came upon one of Joseph Ratzinger’s beautiful insights. I would...

25Oct

October 25, 2022 Gil Bailie

“Present-day thought is leading us in the direction of the valley of death, and it is cataloguing the dry bones...

21Oct

October 21, 2022 Randy Coleman-Riese

In 2005 journalist Nathan Gardels interviewed René Girard. The resulting article was published in the Huffington Post under the title...

17Oct

October 17, 2022 Randy Coleman-Riese

In Bob Dylan’s recently published book, The Philosophy of Modern Song, Dylan provides his unique perspective on an eclectic selection...

15Oct

October 15, 2022 Randy Coleman-Riese

Welcome to The Cornerstone Forum’s new website! We have made some significant changes, the most noticeable being the elimination of...

13Oct

October 13, 2022 Randy Coleman-Riese

René Girard came to Stanford University in 1981 after a prestigious academic career at Johns Hopkins. Robert Harrison, one of...