This week begins Bryant Macfarlane’s four-part short series, On the Sublime and the Beautiful: Impacts of the Technological Sublime. This group will meet starting Wednesday, April 12th at 7 p.m. US Central Time on Zoom and will meet the following Wednesdays: 4/19, 4/26, and 5/3. Register on Eventbrite or become a Patron with us at Patreon where the … Read more
Here’s our latest newsletter, with an article from Jakob Hanschu, “‘Live Fast, Die Young’: A Reflection on 24/7 Capitalism and Ecological Arrhythmia” and news about our upcoming classes. Laurie’s two session class on Pope Francis’s Laudato Si is right around the corner!
This time we interview Suan Sonna—host of Intellectual Catholicism—to talk about the relationship between the Church and State, Aristo-Thomism and natural law. Please fill out this form to be put on the email list for future Maurin Academy seminars, short series, and other events. Support us on Patreon! Dustbowl Diatribes podcast can be found on iTunes, Google … Read more
This Thursday is Laurie’s monthly “Pints with Plato” talk and discussion, and she’ll be focusing on St. Augustine’s Book XIX of Augustine’s The City of God in which he wrestles with the relative importance of philosophy versus faith, or Athens versus Jerusalem. Laurie will also talk a bit about Augustine’s influence on the school of political … Read more
Here’s a copy of our latest newsletter, where you’ll find news about our new Marx reading group, the next “Pints with Plato,” and some important news from the JPII Catholic Worker farm. You can download this copy!
My first monthly live session will start at 7 p.m. US Central Time this Thursday (link below or search Pints with Plato on Eventbrite! If you already support us on Patreon at the Salt of the Earth or Worker Scholar levels you will already have access. In this first session I plan to actually discuss … Read more
Starting one month from now, Dr. Laurie Johnson be going live on first Thursday evenings (7 p.m. Central Time) for “Pints With Plato” (which won’t just be about Plato–it’s just that he’s one of her favorite political philosophers). You can see a full description and sign up for any single session on Eventbrite for a donation, and soon we’ll also have some subscription choices on Patreon for those who want access to all these as well as seminars and series from Laurie and other co-founders of the Maurin Academy, like Spencer, Jakob and Bryant, all of whom have appeared on Laurie’s YouTube channel. Spencer is also co-host of our Dustbowl Diatribes podcast. We’ll also have a newsletter to tell you about upcoming events! My first “Pints with Plato” is on Thursday, January 5! More to come!
Laurie and Spencer interview retired Lutheran Pastor Tom Mundahl. Mundahl has made action the center of his ministry, including leading a venture into Catholic Worker hospitality in a Campus student group. We discuss why it is difficult for pastors to move beyond the comfort zones of their parishioners to lead them into new ways of living and interacting with others. We discuss the obstacle of Christian nationalism as the latest inhibitor of Christian action.