Dear Friends,
We have recently added some new items to our Audio Archives section on the web store. The Truth of Poetry series Gil recorded in 1995 is now available in both CD (8 CDs in a vinyl binder) and MP3 format (8 MP3 audio files on a data CD). Gil Bailie in this series explores the relationship between truth and poetry via Virgil's Aeneid.
This series was conceived as a complement to the Poetry of Truth series based on the Gospel of Luke. In these two texts, Luke's Gospel and Virgil's Aeneid, written only a few decades apart the perspective of the Judeo-Christian revelation is compared to the classical myth of origins composed as an paean to Augustus Caesar and the pax romana.
Into the world Virgil's poem was written to glorify was born, in a lowly cattle shed in a dusty outpost on the edge of the Roman empire a different kind of king. At the intersection of these stories there occurs an event that has become the axis about which human history now turns. At the trial and crucifixion of Jesus, Pilate, the administrator of the pax romana, confronts Jesus who has told him, "for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth"; and Pilate responds, "What is truth?"
The 14 CD set of the Reflections on the Gospel of John is now available as a 14 MP3 data CD which may be played on a computer CD drive or transferred to a MP3 player as well (for half the price of the CD set).
Also, over the past month I have continued to post excerpts from Gil's archive of recorded materials on his weblog, Reflections on Faith and Culture. From the Famished Craving series the 4th CD, the supernova of enlightenment optimism's implosion into post-modern nihilism, is now available as a CD and downloadable MP3 file.
Upcoming event in the San Francisco Bay Area at the Domincan School of Philosophy & Theology
In April Gil will be visiting the Bay Area and along with another DSPT Fellow, Ron Austin. They will be giving a presentation entitled, "Being Scene - the sound of two hands clapping" on Wednesday evening at 7:30pm. Click on the image below to go to the DSPT website for updates.
 Supporting the Cornerstone Forum and the Scriptorium Project  We continue to depend on the prayers and generosity of our friends to do our work. And an important part of this work is the Scriptorium Project. Many of our friends have become members of this project and collaborate with us by reading draft installments from Gil's writing desk. These draft texts are posted on our members only Friends of the Cornerstone Forum site. Members may read the texts and send us their comments and concerns about these texts and other issues related to our work. Gil and I have recorded three split screen video conversations posted on the site where we discuss comments and questions posed by Scriptorium members and any matters relevant to our work.
If you are not already a member please consider helping us by joining with our friends at one of the following donation levels: $5/month or $60/year - provides access to our Friends of the Cornerstone Forum site where draft texts from Gil's writing project are posted along with video conversations discussing this work. Complete versions of archived audio materials are also available via streaming media players. $10/month or $120/year - provides all the access listed above plus donor's will receive a link/coupon via email to download a complimentary copy of each month's MP3 audio file. $25/month or $300/year - our Sustaining Donor level provides all the above plus a mailed monthly complimentary CD of either current or archival materials of Gil Bailie's presentations. Also, we will mail printed booklet copies of Gil's draft Scriptorium installments as they become available. Donations may be made on our secure website HERE, or mailed to: The Cornerstone Forum P.O. Box 9249 Santa Rosa, CA 95405
Sincerely, Randy Coleman-Riese
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