27May

What If the Culture Is the Model?

May 27, 2025 Rico McCahon

Cultural Formation and Mimetic Saturation What if the culture isn’t just a background noise, but the model itself? That’s the...

22May

Hooked on the “Ifs” — Henri Nouwen and the Mimetic False Self

May 22, 2025 Rico McCahon

Henri Nouwen once confessed: “A little criticism makes me angry, and a little rejection makes me depressed. A little praise...

20May

May 20, 2025 Rico McCahon

“You are not broken. You are just complex.” So goes the comforting refrain of Internal Family Systems (IFS), the therapeutic...

10Apr

April 10, 2025 Rico McCahon

One of the strangest things about being human is that we rarely know where our desires come from. We think...

30Mar

March 30, 2025 The Cornerstone Forum

We apologize for our lack of communication recently. The usual reasons of life’s surprise impositions and familial demands apply however...

03Aug

August 3, 2023 Alex Lessard

17Mar

March 17, 2023 Randy Coleman-Riese

08Mar

March 8, 2023 Randy Coleman-Riese

Perpetual Felicity We recently (March 7th) celebrated the memorial of Sts. Purpetua and Felicity, two young women, one a noblewoman...

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...

14Sep

September 14, 2021 Randy Coleman-Riese

It is always encouraging to find others who are working to make the work of René Girard better known. Of...