Keeping Faith & Breaking Ground

Introduction to Violence Unveiled

This is the 2020 audiobook introduction to Gil Bailie's 1996 Violence Unveiled book published by Crossroads available in print, ebook, and audiobook versions.

Introduction to The Poetry of Truth

As an introduction to the Poetry of Truth / Truth of Poetry series on the Gospel of Luke and Vergil's Aenid Gil Bailie presented an extended reflection on Mark Twain's posthumously published essay entitled The United States of Lyncherdom. 

Resentment Part 2

A public presentation given in Brisbane, Australia in 2003 entitled "The Religious Challenges of the 21st Century".

Resentment Part 1

A public presentation given in Brisbane, Australia in 2003 entitled "The Religious Challenges of the 21st Century".

Emancipation from Radical Emancipation

A presentation at the 2011 Center for Ethics and Culture annual meeting at the University of Notre Dame. The Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology offered three perspectives in this session made by Fr. Michael Sweeney, Ron Austin, and Gil Bailie. This is Gil Bailie's presentation. 

Nothing Remains Intact Without Effort

This is an expanded version of remarks made in 2009 at an event honoring then San Francisco Archbishop George Niederauer and Professor Emeritus René Girard of Stanford University. Gil Bailie proposes the importance of Girard's work for the Catholic Church in its mission in the 21st century.

2000 Years and No New God

Friedrich Nietzsche's aphoristic lament in his late work "The Antichrist" that it had been almost "two thousand years and no new god" glimpses an important anthropological effect of the Christian revelation. The word Nietzsche uses to characterize what he loathes most about the cultural effect of Christianity is the word pity. It isn’t pity; it is empathy for victims as victims that the Gospel awakens, and it is that empathy that has had a mounting effect on cultural life during the last “two thousand years”. In this presentation from 2002 Gil Bailie describes in broad overview of effects of the Gospel on cultures exposed to it using the interpretive lens of René Girard's mimetic theory.

Bells & Whistles - The Technology of Forgetfulness

This is a presentation Gil Bailie gave at the 2018 conference of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars.
“The rural peals of the nineteenth century, which have become for us the sound of another time bear witness to a different way of being inscribed in time and space, and of experiencing time and space.”
Alain Corbin
“Religious believer and Bolshevik activist alike understood bells to be a linchpin in the cultural sensibilities that the regime wanted desperately to reconfigure.”
Richard Hernandez
In his presentation Gil Bailie makes reference to the following two paintings and a film:
The Angelus by Milet