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...Read more
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...Read more
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...Read more
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...Read more
30Mar 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...Read more
17Mar Gil Bailie & Jean-Michel Oughourlian on David Gornoski’s “Things Hidden” Podcast March 17, 2023 Randy Coleman-Riese Blog Read more
08Mar 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...Read more
21Oct 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...Read more
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...Read more
What If the Culture Is the Model?
Hooked on the “Ifs” — Henri Nouwen and the Mimetic False Self
IFS and the Mystery of Multiplicity – Critiquing Internal Family Systems
Why We Don’t Choose Our Models
Springtime 2025 – Hope Along a Lenten Path
A Homily Inspired by René Girard
Gil Bailie & Jean-Michel Oughourlian on David Gornoski’s “Things Hidden” Podcast
Imitation of our betters
Asking René Girard
A Theater of Envy – René Girard & The Bard of Avon: an Albertus Magnus Institute podcast