Keeping Faith & Breaking Ground

Babette’s Feast Part 1

Gil Bailie explores elements of a sacrament as depicted in Isak Dinesen's Babette's Feast. 
This was part of a series of presentations entitled Crucial Choice . The crucial choices between sacrifice and sacrament are narrated in the short stories of Isak Dinesen's Babette's Feast, and Flannery O'Connor's The Displaced Person.
 

The Displaced Person Part 2

This two part presentation was part of a series entitled "Crucial Choice" where Gil Bailie compared the Isak Dineson short story, Babette's Feast, and Flannery O'Connor's The Displaced Person exploring the sacramental and sacrifical movements in the stories.

The Displaced Person Part 1

This two part presentation was part of a series entitled "Crucial Choice" where Gil Bailie compared the Isak Dineson short story, Babette's Feast, and Flannery O'Connor's The Displaced Person exploring the sacramental and sacrifical movements in the stories.

The Truth of Poetry - Aeneid Part 8

Publius Vergillius Maro, 70-19 BCE, wrote his epic poem seemingly to honor the Pax Romana of Emperor Augustus. But does his poetic skill hide a truth? An undercurrent of doubt about the sustainability of the Roman enterprise haunts the poem leading to a labyrinthine dead end foreshadowed at Rome’s founding in the brutal slaying of the Rutulian king Turnus by Aeneas. Peace via the sword will be Rome’s legacy until the coming of the Prince of Peace in the dusty Galilean outback of the Augustan empire…(to be continued in the Poetry of Truth—Reflections on the Gospel of Luke.)

The Truth of Poetry - Aeneid Part 7

Publius Vergillius Maro, 70-19 BCE, wrote his epic poem seemingly to honor the Pax Romana of Emperor Augustus. But does his poetic skill hide a truth? An undercurrent of doubt about the sustainability of the Roman enterprise haunts the poem leading to a labyrinthine dead end foreshadowed at Rome’s founding in the brutal slaying of the Rutulian king Turnus by Aeneas. Peace via the sword will be Rome’s legacy until the coming of the Prince of Peace in the dusty Galilean outback of the Augustan empire…(to be continued in the Poetry of Truth—Reflections on the Gospel of Luke.)

The Truth of Poetry - Aeneid Part 6

Publius Vergillius Maro, 70-19 BCE, wrote his epic poem seemingly to honor the Pax Romana of Emperor Augustus. But does his poetic skill hide a truth? An undercurrent of doubt about the sustainability of the Roman enterprise haunts the poem leading to a labyrinthine dead end foreshadowed at Rome’s founding in the brutal slaying of the Rutulian king Turnus by Aeneas. Peace via the sword will be Rome’s legacy until the coming of the Prince of Peace in the dusty Galilean outback of the Augustan empire…(to be continued in the Poetry of Truth—Reflections on the Gospel of Luke.)

The Truth of Poetry - Aeneid Part 5

Publius Vergillius Maro, 70-19 BCE, wrote his epic poem seemingly to honor the Pax Romana of Emperor Augustus. But does his poetic skill hide a truth? An undercurrent of doubt about the sustainability of the Roman enterprise haunts the poem leading to a labyrinthine dead end foreshadowed at Rome’s founding in the brutal slaying of the Rutulian king Turnus by Aeneas. Peace via the sword will be Rome’s legacy until the coming of the Prince of Peace in the dusty Galilean outback of the Augustan empire…(to be continued in the Poetry of Truth—Reflections on the Gospel of Luke.)

The Truth of Poetry - Aeneid Part 4

Publius Vergillius Maro, 70-19 BCE, wrote his epic poem seemingly to honor the Pax Romana of Emperor Augustus. But does his poetic skill hide a truth? An undercurrent of doubt about the sustainability of the Roman enterprise haunts the poem leading to a labyrinthine dead end foreshadowed at Rome’s founding in the brutal slaying of the Rutulian king Turnus by Aeneas. Peace via the sword will be Rome’s legacy until the coming of the Prince of Peace in the dusty Galilean outback of the Augustan empire…(to be continued in the Poetry of Truth—Reflections on the Gospel of Luke.)

The Truth of Poetry - Aeneid Part 3

Publius Vergillius Maro, 70-19 BCE, wrote his epic poem seemingly to honor the Pax Romana of Emperor Augustus. But does his poetic skill hide a truth? An undercurrent of doubt about the sustainability of the Roman enterprise haunts the poem leading to a labyrinthine dead end foreshadowed at Rome’s founding in the brutal slaying of the Rutulian king Turnus by Aeneas. Peace via the sword will be Rome’s legacy until the coming of the Prince of Peace in the dusty Galilean outback of the Augustan empire…(to be continued in the Poetry of Truth—Reflections on the Gospel of Luke.)

The Truth of Poetry - Aeneid Part 2

Publius Vergillius Maro, 70-19 BCE, wrote his epic poem seemingly to honor the Pax Romana of Emperor Augustus. But does his poetic skill hide a truth? An undercurrent of doubt about the sustainability of the Roman enterprise haunts the poem leading to a labyrinthine dead end foreshadowed at Rome’s founding in the brutal slaying of the Rutulian king Turnus by Aeneas. Peace via the sword will be Rome’s legacy until the coming of the Prince of Peace in the dusty Galilean outback of the Augustan empire…(to be continued in the Poetry of Truth—Reflections on the Gospel of Luke.)