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THINGS HIDDEN 70: David Cayley on Illich and Girard At the End of Our World

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 David Gornoski is joined by David Cayley, writer and host of the renowned CBC Radio One program Ideas. David Cayley talks about his new book Ivan Illich: An Intellectual Journey, his introduction to Rene Girard, the church’s development into a power structure, the current public health crisis, the new hidden religion, the new normalization of […]

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David Cayley on Rene Girard, Ivan Illich, and Societal Breakdown

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In these times of social unrest we need to understand what drives humanity towards conflict. David Cayley, longtime CBC Ideas broadcaster, joins David Gornoski to discuss the breakdown of social unity through a distinctly Christian lens shaped by experiences with Rene Girard and Ivan Illich. On the pandemic, Cayley says that “the virus is the […]

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