02Mar Ash Wednesday, Armageddon, and Apocalypse March 2, 2022 Randy Coleman-Riese Blog Lent begins this year, as always, with the imposition on worshiper’s foreheads of the ashen remains of burnt palm...Read more
04Dec Progress, Religion, and Technology December 4, 2021 Gil Bailie Blog In a lecture on the work of historian Christopher Dawson given in 1993, Russell Hittinger wrote: “From his first published...Read more
02Nov Election Day Thoughts November 2, 2020 Gil Bailie Blog “Cultures are constituted by the union of the living and the dead in rituals of living memory. Never before …...Read more
18Feb Memory and Tradition February 18, 2020 Gil Bailie Blog “The appeal to tradition is not a mere remembrance of the past; it involves rather the recognition of a cultural...Read more
04Apr Had Enough…? April 4, 2019 Gil Bailie Blog Charles Péguy “It is one and the same movement which makes people no longer believe in the Republic and no...Read more
20Jun The Cost (and Benefit) of Discipleship June 20, 2018 Gil Bailie Blog “It is precisely the hard truths of our faith, those which the culture ignores and even despises, that have the...Read more
22May Message in a bottle…. May 22, 2017 Gil Bailie Blog Ten years ago Gil Bailie spent time reading University of Pennsylvania scholar Philip Rieff’s works with the following results… To...Read more
11May A Look Back At – Tradition May 11, 2017 Gil Bailie Blog The word “tradition” and the word “treason” come from the same root. The very name “modernity” self-consciously used to describe...Read more
03Nov Truth? What is truth… November 3, 2015 Gil Bailie Blog “That a man should think he’s Napoleon, or that he’s a woman, may be no surprise, for humans may imagine...Read more
24Jun It can be done. June 24, 2015 Gil Bailie Blog “They had been men of little faith, with their continual questioning and their childish egotism; but now they went out...Read more
Ash Wednesday, Armageddon, and Apocalypse
Progress, Religion, and Technology
Election Day Thoughts
Memory and Tradition
Had Enough…?
The Cost (and Benefit) of Discipleship
Message in a bottle….
A Look Back At – Tradition
Truth? What is truth…
It can be done.