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19Feb

The Soil of Desire: Composite Models and the Parable of the Sower

February 19, 2026 Rico McCahon Blog, Lectio Divina
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15Jan

Light on the Wallpaper: Renown and the Bonfire

January 15, 2026 Rico McCahon Blog
Light on the Wallpaper: Renown and the Bonfire by The Cornerstone Forum Another encounter with a Robert Frost poem Read...
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08Jan

Rivalry, Communion, and the Incarnation

January 8, 2026 Rico McCahon Blog
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23Dec
Reprise of Reflections on a Girard Christmas Card

Reprise of Reflections on a Girard Christmas Card

December 23, 2025 The Cornerstone Forum Blog
Reflections on a Girard Christmas Card… In past years in celebration of Christmas we have posted a short excerpt from...
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06Nov
Hoping for your help…

Hoping for your help…

November 6, 2025 The Cornerstone Forum Blog
Our Fall Appeal: Teachers and Patterns This year’s Fall Appeal comes as Pope Leo XIV on All Saints’ Day proclaimed...
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14Aug

Thou Dost Love Her: Augustine, Shakespeare, and the Grace of Imitation

August 14, 2025 Rico McCahon Blog
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19Jun

Composite Models: You Are Not a Self-Made Man

June 19, 2025 Rico McCahon Blog
Composite Models: You Are Not a Self-Made Man by The Cornerstone Forum Read on Substack
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05Jun

Moving the Blog to Substack

June 5, 2025 Rico McCahon Blog
The Cornerstone Revisited by The Cornerstone Forum A new beginning for Cornerstone Forum, quietly, together. “In my beginning is my...
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15Apr

The Lie and the Scapegoat – Reading M. Scott Peck through Girard

April 15, 2025 Rico McCahon Blog
This post begins a new series exploring mimetic theory and composite models.We’ll be drawing connections between psychological, spiritual, and cultural...
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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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  • “Silence” and the Collapse of a Composite Model
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  • What a Composite Model Is – And Is Not
  • Desire Has a History
  • Augustine, the Divided Will, and the Gravity of Desire

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