This is the season of botany courses at The Maurin Academy! We have a special speaker you won’t want to miss! Gavin Schaefer, botany extraordinaire, will be teaching a two-part course on all things native plants. You’ll learn the basics, like what even is a native plant, as well as how to start planting them … Read more
The Maurin Academy offers three tiers on Patreon, which is our platform for providing our educational content. We thought we’d explain them briefly here. You can go The Maurin Academy Patreon to join!
Next Monday, December 16, we will be joined by Harry Murray for his second of four sessions on topics of his choice, related to Personalism and the Catholic Worker Movement! This upcoming session Harry will be presenting on the philosopher and theologian, Nikolai Berdyaev. To attend either this live session and discussion or watch the … Read more
Spencer and special guest Caleb Owens interview Laurie Johnson about her newly published book, The Gap in God’s Country: A Longer View on Our Culture Wars. For more information about this book and where to buy it, as well as information about a series of talks she’ll give on themes from the book, check out: https://pmaurin.org/2024/11/02/the-gap-in-gods-country-themes-discussion-with-laurie-johnson-coming-up/
The Gap in God’s Country: Themes and Discussion With Laurie M. Johnson Series Dates: November 18, December 2 and 9, January 6 and 20 at 7 p.m. US Central Time, live on Zoom Laurie’s newly published book, The Gap in God’s Country: A Longer View on Our Culture Wars was recently published and sessions with … Read more
The Gap in God’s Country: A Longer View on Our Culture Wars, Sessions Starting in November (Nov. 18, Dec. 2 & 9, Jan. 6 & 20). To attend, join the Maurin Academy Patreon at the $5 or $ levels, or register on Eventbrite for $20 for all five sessions, or a donation of your choice.
We are thrilled to welcome guest lecturer Harry Murray who will be teaching four classes over the next year, once every three months. The first session will be held on Monday, August 5 at 7 p.m. US Central Time, live on Zoom. He will be teaching about the intersections of the co-founder of the Catholic … Read more
Using selections of texts from Plato’s Republic, Gorgias, Symposium, and Laws, Laurie will discuss key ideas that attracted early Christians: Plato’s idealism (doctrine of the forms), his views on justice, the role of human love, the existence of God, and the afterlife. The last half hour, at least, will be for open discussion. Each session … Read more
Here’s a brief explanation of what’s going on with Jakob Hanschu’s reading group this year.
The last session in our food preservation series, next week on March 26, is a roundtable (including but not limited to Ryan, Chris, Spencer, Emily, Laurie) on the reasons why you should consider taking the time to do food differently. We will be getting into the social, cultural, economic and political ramifications of our food system and our choices. Join us by supporting u on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/maurinacademy