The Great Books Reading Group will take on Paul Kingsnorth’s book Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity starting on the first Thursday of February, the 5th, 7-8:30 p.m. US Central Time, on our Patreon platform at the Trainee ($1) level or above, and we invite you to join us! Laurie Johnson and Kent Shultz will take turns leading the discussion. Reading is encouraged, but not required.
Some New World Myths of Supernatural Belief in a Secular Age By: Peter Harrison Capital Hates Everyone Fascism or Revolution By: Maurizio Lazzarato The Worlds of Public Health Anthropological Excursions 1st Edition By: Didier Fassin Silent Coup How Corporations Overthrew Democracy By: Claire Provost, Matt Kennard The Need for Roots By: Simone Weil On the Ecclesiastical Mystagogy A Theological Vision … 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.
What happens when even basic business can’t be effectively done? How did we get here? Spencer and Laurie digest more of John Rao’s thoughts from various books and try to settle their argument from the last episode.
The most remote inhabited island in the Pacific Ocean, Rapa Nui (Easter Island, Chile), occupies a place in the popular imagination with its iconic stone statues. It is in the remoteness and beauty of this landscape that filmmakers Sergio Mata’u Rapu and Elena Kouneski Rapu documented the paradoxes that arise when indigenous and local communities seek both economic development and ecological sustainability.
About: In this four-week online series, Spencer Hess and Laurie Johnson will lead a discussion of Wendell Berry’s most influential prose work, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture. As the title implies, Berry argues that how we live, how we grow our food, and how we eat are interrelated matters. That “eating is an … Read more
Here’s a repost of an interview Spencer Hess and Emily Larner did with Clark Massey, Founder of A Simple House https://www.asimplehouse.org/, and co-host of the Simpleton Podcast.
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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Spencer and Laurie interview Dan Krull about the closure of an innercity agricultural initiative. We discuss the ins and outs of the project, some reasons why it “failed”, and the limits (or lack thereof) of education as a means of improving society. Please fill out this form to be put on the email list for future Maurin … Read more