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08Jan

Rivalry, Communion, and the Incarnation

January 8, 2026 Rico McCahon Blog
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17Jul

The Passion of Christ and the End of Blood Sacrifice

July 17, 2025 Rico McCahon Blog
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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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28Nov
A Civilizational Crisis

A Civilizational Crisis

November 28, 2023 Gil Bailie Blog
Bari Weiss delivered a lecture at The Federalist Society * on November 10, 2023, in which she gave what I...
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25Oct

Running into Girard at The Lamp

October 25, 2023 Rico McCahon Blog
I apologize that this is behind a paywall; I promise this is not an advertisement for The Lamp any more...
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10Feb

My Little Scapegoat

February 10, 2023 Rico McCahon Blog
While praying Morning Prayer for today the reading jumped out at me. It is a reminder that while any victims...
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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...
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17Jul

A Coda on COV&R in Innsbruck (present and past…)

July 17, 2019 Randy Coleman-Riese Blog
University of Innsbruck Bleary eyed after 24 hours of travel from Austria to San Francisco the accumulated work of two...
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15Jun

Scapegoats and the crisis of distinctions

June 15, 2015 Gil Bailie Blog
While many people cite René Girard’s mimetic theory in order to champion the cause of scapegoats — real ones as...
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