Keeping Faith & Breaking Ground

The Tempest Part 1

The Bard of Avon’s last play, The Tempest, shares a bit of our contemporary fascination with the illusions of ‘reality TV’ and ‘stranded on a desert island’, orchestrated by the most gifted playwright the English language has produced in his farewell performance.

Hamlet Part 2

Gil Bailie's Reflections on William Shakespeare's play Hamlet. The duty to avenge the murder of one's father collides with the Christian commandment to love one's enemies. Hamlet's hesitation to perform his sacred duty provides the opening for Mr. Bailie to shine the illuminating rays of René Girard's mimetic hypothesis on the role of violence in the origins of human culture and personhood by means of Shakespeare's dramatic masterpiece.

Hamlet Part 1

Gil Bailie's Reflections on William Shakespeare's play Hamlet. The duty to avenge the murder of one's father collides with the Christian commandment to love one's enemies. Hamlet's hesitation to perform his sacred duty provides the opening for Mr. Bailie to shine the illuminating rays of René Girard's mimetic hypothesis on the role of violence in the origins of human culture and personhood by means of Shakespeare's dramatic masterpiece.

The Artificial Nigger

Gil Bailie explores two short stories by Flannery O'Connor, Parker's Back and The Artificial Nigger, as a way to see the sacrament of confirmation - the Christian initiation into the mature responsibilities of spiritual and social life - in a new light.

Parker’s Back Part 2

Gil Bailie explores two short stories by Flannery O'Connor, Parker's Back and The Artificial Nigger, as a way to see the sacrament of confirmation - the Christian initiation into the mature responsibilities of spiritual and social life - in a new light.

Parker’s Back Part 1

Gil Bailie explores two short stories by Flannery O'Connor, Parker's Back and The Artificial Nigger, as a way to see the sacrament of confirmation - the Christian initiation into the mature responsibilities of spiritual and social life - in a new light.

King Lear Part 5

Under the theme of ’Worthy Stories confused with Dubious Plots’ this exploration of one of the later plays of Shakespeare follows the crisis King Lear’s abdication precipitates and the cost to extricate himself from the ‘plot’ in order to enter the larger ‘Story’. Using the insights of René Girard’s mimetic theory, Gil Bailie brings the inner dynamics of Shakespeare’s play to life. 

King Lear Part 4

Under the theme of ’Worthy Stories confused with Dubious Plots’ this exploration of one of the later plays of Shakespeare follows the crisis King Lear’s abdication precipitates and the cost to extricate himself from the ‘plot’ in order to enter the larger ‘Story’. Using the insights of René Girard’s mimetic theory, Gil Bailie brings the inner dynamics of Shakespeare’s play to life. 

King Lear Part 3

Under the theme of ’Worthy Stories confused with Dubious Plots’ this exploration of one of the later plays of Shakespeare follows the crisis King Lear’s abdication precipitates and the cost to extricate himself from the ‘plot’ in order to enter the larger ‘Story’. Using the insights of René Girard’s mimetic theory, Gil Bailie brings the inner dynamics of Shakespeare’s play to life. 

King Lear Part 2

Under the theme of ’Worthy Stories confused with Dubious Plots’ this exploration of one of the later plays of Shakespeare follows the crisis King Lear’s abdication precipitates and the cost to extricate himself from the ‘plot’ in order to enter the larger ‘Story’. Using the insights of René Girard’s mimetic theory, Gil Bailie brings the inner dynamics of Shakespeare’s play to life.