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.
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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.
Sublation Media’s Douglas Lain, YouTuber and host of the Diet Soap podcast, talks to Spencer and Laurie about what he thinks of the theory of neufuedal capitalism, his views on the campaign against “disinformation” in light of free speech rights, and how the two may relate.
Maurin Academy Co-founders Spencer Hess and Emily Larner of the John Paul II Catholic Worker Farm are featured in a piece from The Nation on the Anarchism of the Catholic Worker, commemorating the 90th anniversary of the Catholic Worker. https://www.thenation.com/article/society/catholic-worker-dorothy-day-peter-maurin/
These are what’s growing right now in Laurie’s yard. Most of them are perennial. Only the plants in the raised beds at the end are not. This means that most of this comes up on its own every year. From the start: Mugwort bushes (great for sleeping well and lowering inflammation), wild arugula, edible green Spencer gave her but she forgets the name, raspberry bushes, lamb’s quarters, Jerusalem artichoke, sorrel, garlic, blackberries, Egyptian walking onions, close-up of walking onion, bergamot (Bee’s Balm), rhubarb, and assorted non-perennial greens under makeshift “greenhouse” of old windows, other side with spinach, kale, Swiss chard, and lettuce.
Spencer and Laurie interview Brian Zahnd, pastor of Word of Life Church, St. Joseph, MO. We discuss why some people decide to break from destructive ideas of faith, like Christian nationalism, and why many don’t. We also have a conversation about the church’s mission and what its role should be on grave issues like environmental destruction and war.
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Here’s our latest newsletter, featuring a short essay from Laurie, Spencer, and Emily on deep understanding and action. Bryant’s technological sublime short series begins this Wednesday, April 12 at 7 p.m. US Central Time and will continue for the following three Wednesdays (April 19, 26, and May 3). We hope to see you there!