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Dear Friends,
Since everything we are able to do at the Cornerstone Forum is made possible by your prayers and support, I want to give a brief report about a Mexican conference from which I just returned and a Stanford lecture I will attend in the week ahead.
In my capacity as a Fellow of the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, I recently participated in the inaugural meeting of the Mazatlán Forum, co-sponsored by DSPT and the Colegio de Sinaloa, at which several faculty members and members of the College of Fellows joined our Mexican counterparts in addressing the topic: Crossing Borders: Examining Political, Economic, and Social Assumptions in the US and Mexico. Our conversations were candid, collegial, and mutually enriching. We shattered a few stereotypes and came to know and better understand one another. Next year we plan to meet in the U.S. to renew the conversation we began in Mazatlán. The Forum was video-taped and live-streamed, and will soon be available on the DSPT website.
I leave tomorrow to visit René and Martha Girard in northern California and to attend a lecture by Timothy Snyder, author of "Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin," a very important book, which I very much recommend. It is a sobering reminder of the reality of radical evil.
I will then travel to Sonoma to work with Randy Coleman-Riese at the Cornerstone Forum office and to visit children and grandchildren. I will return thereafter to the writing and research which is my primary focus, these extracurricular activities notwithstanding.
Thank you for your continued encouragement, prayers and support. You are in my prayers.
Gil Bailie
P.S. I have had little time lately for Facebook/Twitter posts. When time permits, I will offer an occasional comment or link. Thanks to those who have become Friends of our Facebook Page and Twitter account.
 
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