08Sep Occasionally we get a glimpse of the leavening force in human history September 8, 2022 Gil Bailie Blog Here is a metaphor for the Christianization of culture, history, and the human imagination, against which so many forces are...Read more
07Sep The Task at Hand . . . September 7, 2022 Gil Bailie Blog Culture is the soul of a civilization and religion is the soul of a culture. Once a civilization loses its...Read more
02Sep Nietzschean Conformism September 2, 2022 Gil Bailie Blog In a book published in 1980, the French theologian and patristic scholar Henri de Lubac warned that “a new tidal...Read more
31Aug A 1937 message for a 2022 audience August 31, 2022 Gil Bailie Blog T. S. Eliot said in a radio address in 1937, “When the Christian is treated as an enemy of the...Read more
27Aug Christ or Nothing August 27, 2022 Gil Bailie Blog “Balthasar can already look ahead to his final conclusion: one day, non-Christian humanity will stand before the ‘yawning abyss of...Read more
24Aug The reason why the intoxications of reason must be avoided August 24, 2022 Gil Bailie Blog In Christ, writes Hans Urs von Balthasar, “God breaks forever all the ‘wisdom’ of the world by the ‘folly’ of...Read more
23Aug Canceling the Past August 23, 2022 Gil Bailie Blog In a 2021 essay in Salvo Magazine, Robin Phillips wrote: “From the French Revolution through to the various Communist revolutions...Read more
23Aug World Affirming Theme August 23, 2022 Gil Bailie Blog For those wearied and disheartened by the corruption and dissipation of the culture formed by the biblical tradition, Balthasar calls...Read more
04Jul A July 4th Reflection – “something more than common” July 4, 2022 Randy Coleman-Riese Blog In 1861 the newly elected 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, was slowly making his way from Springfield,...Read more
17Jun What will remain? June 17, 2022 Randy Coleman-Riese Blog Poems from a Diary 1974 Who will last? And what? The wind will stay, and the blind man's blindness when...Read more
Occasionally we get a glimpse of the leavening force in human history
The Task at Hand . . .
Nietzschean Conformism
A 1937 message for a 2022 audience
Christ or Nothing
The reason why the intoxications of reason must be avoided
Canceling the Past
World Affirming Theme
A July 4th Reflection – “something more than common”
What will remain?