07Feb Resurfacing – breaking the silence February 7, 2022 Randy Coleman-Riese Blog Our absence from the weblog for the past month has been a result of the vicissitudes of aging as well...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
03Sep In memorium: September 3, 2021 Randy Coleman-Riese Blog As we approach the twentieth anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001 news outlets, internet pundits, and all...Read more
02Jan Awakening in the New Year January 2, 2021 Randy Coleman-Riese Blog Which is more difficult, to awaken one who sleeps or to awaken one who, awake, dreams that he is awake? Soren Kierkegaard Some...Read more
22Dec Reflections on a Girard Christmas Card December 22, 2020 Randy Coleman-Riese Blog In past years in celebration of Christmas we have posted a short excerpt from the Hoover Institutions Uncommon Knowledge series...Read more
14Aug + Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger 1926 – 2007 August 14, 2020 Randy Coleman-Riese Blog Thirteen years ago this month Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger died. Gil Bailie wrote a short homage (copied below) on...Read more
05Aug Human Nature August 5, 2020 Gil Bailie Blog “Contrary to what our nihilists and relativists tell us, there is a human nature, and its resiliency is such that...Read more
01Jul Listening to voices…from proximity to podcasts July 1, 2020 Randy Coleman-Riese Blog For most of human history the only way one person could hear another person’s voice was to be within what...Read more
15Jun Mimetic Tangles June 15, 2020 Gil Bailie Blog “If we project our own mimetic tangles upon society as a whole, the more entangled we are, the more rigid...Read more
07Feb Turning Ourselves into Gifts February 7, 2020 Gil Bailie Blog “The modern world insidiously brings back forms of self-enslavement from which Western society had largely escaped during the Christian centuries.”...Read more
Resurfacing – breaking the silence
A Theater of Envy – René Girard & The Bard of Avon: an Albertus Magnus Institute podcast
In memorium:
Awakening in the New Year
Reflections on a Girard Christmas Card
+ Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger 1926 – 2007
Human Nature
Listening to voices…from proximity to podcasts
Mimetic Tangles
Turning Ourselves into Gifts