For news on upcoming classes look at each of our subject areas here–hover your mouse under Courses and you’ll see our areas: “Cult (religion)” “Culture (politics/economics),” and “Cultivation (environment/agriculture).” On our website here you can also sign up for our quarterly newsletter which details what we’ve done lately and lists our upcoming classes.
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!
At the first tier (Trainee — $1 per month) patrons get access in one convenient place to our public content such as our Dustbowl Diatribes, Political Philosophy and Midnight Lands podcasts, plus our newsletter. Trainees, importantly, also get access to our live and recorded reading group sessions (Jakob Hanschu’s group, Laurie’s Great Books reading group, and monthly patron check-ins. At $12 per year, that’s quite a bit!
At the second tier (Salt of the Earth — $5 per month) patrons get everything at the Trainee level and also ALL our other content (classes, speaker series, reading groups) in recorded format. So at $60 per year, that’s quite a deal. Along with our recorded back-catalog, that’s a lot of university level education for the price of a cup of coffee each month!
At the third tier (Worker-Scholar — $10 per month) patrons get everything at the Trainee and Salt of the Earth levels, plus LIVE access to all our classes, speakers, reading groups, etc. Basically this is an all-access pass, and if you value live interaction, being able to ask questions and dialogue at least part of the time, this tier is for you. At $120 per year, or the cost of (not even quite) one fast-food meal a month, you get a live, interactive educational experience with instructors, group leaders and other patrons–that’s pretty rare!
Some of our classes and speakers are also offered as single events on Eventbrite, and the best way to check that is to google “Maurin Academy Eventbrite.”
At the Maurin Academy we keep the cost of access low because we are a non-profit organization whose mission is public education on issues surrounding environment, politics/economics, and religion (and most importantly, how they interact). We are inspired by Peter Maurin’s vision of an “agronomic university”– a school for all people who want to learn more about why we are in the relative mess we’re in on all counts, how we might cope with it, and even what we might do about it.
That being said, we need your support, either as a patron or as a traditional donor, or both. If you would like to donate to the Maurin Academy nonprofit, instead of or in addition to becoming a patron, you can use this link on our website: https://pmaurin.org/support-us/
We need your help to keep going and to reach more people. Check out our website and our mission! https://pmaurin.org
Examples of our classes:
Introduction to Ivan Illich
The Golden Mean: Aristotle’s Virtue Ethics
More Real Than the World: On Plato and Idealism
Romano Guardini’s The End of the Modern World
On the Sublime and the Beautiful
On Pope Francis’s Encyclical Laudato Si: On the Care of Our Common Home
Agricultural Biotechnology and the Information Economy
Seminar on Christian Anarchism
Seminar on Distributism