The Maurin Academy wants to inspire you to take action in your own back yard, or someone else’s back yard. We have a short series on canning, fermenting, and why food preservation is a good idea. Deacon Chris May is going to show us basic canning tomorrow, March 12! Join us: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/maurinacademy No matter … Read more
Laurie and Spencer interview Nat Bjerke-Harvey of Piccalilli Farm in Manhattan, KS, about what it takes to run a diversified local farm, and the reasons to put more effort and resources into eating seasonally and locally. Maurin Academy Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/maurinacademy Political Philosophy: https://political-philosophy.com Dustbowl Diatribes and Political Philosophy are podcasts of the Maurin Academy, which … Read more
It’s time to plan a garden, whether it’s on your patio, in your yard, or someone else’s yard! Ryan Dostal will be running two sessions on garden planning in February, and then in March we have Ryan and Deacon Chris May on deck to teach the preservation techniques of fermentation and canning. Many of the … Read more
Our upcoming Maurin Academy Roundtable Discussion will be next Monday, January 29 at 7 p.m. US Central Time, live on Zoom. This live discussion is available for our Maurin Academy Patrons and Catholic Workers. A brief description of this discussion, as stated in our latest issue of The Regenerative Reader January 2024 : “Our Maurin Academy founders and colleagues … Read more
Spencer and Laurie recap their conversations with Chris Cutrone and Martin Chang and contemplate what it means to be potatoes in a sack or Pringles in a tube.
In “Take 2” of their recap of the start of season 3, Laurie and Spencer take another look at their conversations with Alex Christoyannopoulos and Sean Domencic, circling around the issues of Christian action as lived out in the Catholic Worker movement.
Spencer and Laurie interview Sean Domencic, co-founder of the Tradistae podcast (concluded in 2022) and blog, and frequent contributor to New Polity. Both outlets identify with the Catholic Worker movement and tend to be adjacent to traditionalism, but with a critical distance. This conversation helps us explore the Church-centric wing of the Catholic Worker movement.
Hi everyone! Here is our latest newsletter! Attached to this post is a .pdf file as well for you to download at your convenience. We hope you enjoy!
All are welcome at 7 p.m. tonight for a live-streamed concert with Fr. Paul Turner and members of the Kansas City Symphony. They will play music by Telemann, and share their connections to Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement. Donations will be accepted for the John Paul II Catholic Worker Farm. Here’s the link … Read more
FPR recently published an article about the Maurin Academy. We’re excited to meet more FPR members and have a dialogue with folks on localism. We share many concerns in common.