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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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20May

IFS and the Mystery of Multiplicity – Critiquing Internal Family Systems

May 20, 2025 Rico McCahon Blog
“You are not broken. You are just complex.” So goes the comforting refrain of Internal Family Systems (IFS), the therapeutic...
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10Apr

Why We Don’t Choose Our Models

April 10, 2025 Rico McCahon Blog
One of the strangest things about being human is that we rarely know where our desires come from. We think...
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30Mar
Springtime 2025 – Hope Along a Lenten Path

Springtime 2025 – Hope Along a Lenten Path

March 30, 2025 The Cornerstone Forum Blog
We apologize for our lack of communication recently. The usual reasons of life’s surprise impositions and familial demands apply however...
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03Aug
A Homily Inspired by René Girard

A Homily Inspired by René Girard

August 3, 2023 Alex Lessard Blog
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17Mar
Gil Bailie & Jean-Michel Oughourlian on David Gornoski’s “Things Hidden” Podcast

Gil Bailie & Jean-Michel Oughourlian on David Gornoski’s “Things Hidden” Podcast

March 17, 2023 Randy Coleman-Riese Blog

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08Mar
Imitation of our betters

Imitation of our betters

March 8, 2023 Randy Coleman-Riese Blog
Perpetual Felicity We recently (March 7th) celebrated the memorial of Sts. Purpetua and Felicity, two young women, one a noblewoman...
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21Oct
Asking René Girard

Asking René Girard

October 21, 2022 Randy Coleman-Riese Blog
In 2005 journalist Nathan Gardels interviewed René Girard. The resulting article was published in the Huffington Post under the title...
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14Sep

A Theater of Envy – René Girard & The Bard of Avon: an Albertus Magnus Institute podcast

September 14, 2021 Randy Coleman-Riese Blog
It is always encouraging to find others who are working to make the work of René Girard better known. Of...
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