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Join Gavin Schaefer at The Maurin Academy for a botany course on native plants! Learn to plant this fall! Register as a Patreon member.| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
The Great Books reading group led by Laurie Johnson starts a new book, Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death, in September. The group meets monthly to discuss how media shapes public discourse, urging critical engagement with complex ideas. Supporting the group costs as little as $1 per month on Patreon.| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
The Maurin Academy was happy to provide Rico with some financial support while he lived and worked on the farm, getting in touch with nature, animals and friends. Above are some of Rico's photos of the farm, and below are some of his observations. Thank you, Rico, for your much-needed help on our urban farm!| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
Join Gavin Schaefer at The Maurin Academy for a botany course on native plants! Learn to plant this fall! Register as a Patreon member.| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
Explore the poignant tale of _Eephus_, a film about friendship, nostalgia, and the significance of place centered around a small-town baseball park.| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
Beyond Left or Right critiques of capitalism, state, or power, McKerracher will, with the help of thinkers including Wendell Berry, help us get to a root of all our crises commonly neglected by critical theory.| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
Explore the poignant tale of _Eephus_, a film about friendship, nostalgia, and the significance of place centered around a small-town baseball park.| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
Spencer and Laurie kick off their new season with Catholic Worker James Murphy of St. Martin de Porres, Harrisburgh, PA. The Catholic Worker movement is a testing ground for solutions to poverty, successful relationships, and the possibility of bypassing politics. We get into some of those issues in this interview.| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
You can join us for the live talk by supporting the Maurin Academy on Patreon at the Worker-Scholar level, or receive the video of his talk with the Question and Answer session included at our Salt of the Earth level. Supporting us on Patreon can give you access to all we do–our speaker series, reading groups and classes. If you want to gain access to only this lecture, live and recorded, go to: https://pmaurin.org/2025/07/01/in-this-complicated-world-what-can-you-do-about-the-environment-w...| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
What Maurin Academy sessions can you be involved in soon? It’s the middle of the Summer, and we’ve got some good things for you coming up, including talks centered on food, agriculture, and ecology. Our July TMA Lecture is on your choices at the grocery store, and our August TMA Lecture is on “nature, nurture ... Read more| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
On Saturday, July 19, at 4 p.m. US Central Time, the Communio study circle (mainly Ressourcement theology) will read the first chapter of Hans Urs Von Balthasar’s book Mysterium Paschale (The…| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
Jakob's reading AI Snake Oil. Here's a description from the publisher, Princeton University Press:| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
The latest Maurin Academy lecture series guest will be Dr. Jeremy Cowan, Horticulture specialist and homesteader, who will speak to us about the “Implications of Sustainable Agriculture at Ho…| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
“By power of its title alone, Mediaeval Socialism is a book certain to provoke. Regardless of how one defines the term “socialism,” as Bede Jarrett, O.P., notes, it “is a modern thing, and dependent almost wholly on modern conditions.” The question is well-worth asking, then: “How is it possible to find any real correspondence between theories of ... Read more| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
This is a snippet from the third session of Laurie Johnson’s recent class “The Golden Mean: Introduction to Aristotle’s Virtue Ethics.” If you like this and you’re on …| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
As part of the Maurin Academy speaker series, Dave McKerracher will be with us in August. Dave is the author of Timenergy and is the founder of Theory Underground. He will discuss multiple themes he has developed in his research and at Theory Underground. Dave’s main aim will be to introduce the idea of Soul ... Read more| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
As Spencer and Laurie segue to a new season of Dustbowl Diatribes , they look back at the people they’ve interviewed in 2025 so far and point the way to their next topic.| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
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 ... Read more| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
Join Deacon Christopher May this summer for his four-part introductory series on Ivan Illich. This series will meet on Tuesdays: June 17, July 1, 15, and 29 at 7 p.m. US Central Time, live on Zoom. To join Deacon Chris live join our Patreon at the Worker Scholar level ($10), and to get the recordings ... Read more| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
Spencer Leonard talks to us about human potential, what constitutes freedom and progress, and why it seems particularly difficult to reach.| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
The Maurin Academy’s Great Books reading group will meet Thursday, June 5 at 7 p.m. to discuss an early statement on the situation laborers in industrial capitalism: Rerum Novarum: The Rights and Duties of Capital and Labor by Pope Leo XIII (1891). We decided on this work in the wake of the election of Pope ... Read more| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
Dr. Matthew Dal Santo joins Spencer to discuss his Communio article (https://www.communio-icr.com/articles/print/a-theological-reading-of-the-russian-regime-sergei-bulgakov-and-the-theocra) on Russia’s political regime. We discuss some of the distinctions between being “sub-theocratic”, “post-theocratic”, and anti-theocratic, as well as how these categories intersect with genuine and degraded theologies. This podcast is brought to you by Spencer Hess with the support of The Maurin ....| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
We are thrilled to welcome guest lecturer Harry Murray who will be teaching four classes over the next year, once every three months. The third session in this series will be held on Monday, May 12 at 7 p.m. US Central Time, live on Zoom. Harry will be discussing several of French Personalists including, but ... Read more| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
Spencer and Laurie talk with Prof. Jodi Dean about themes from her new book Capital's Grave: Neofeudalism and the New Class Struggle (Verso, 2025). The theme of neofeudalism is one we have returned to several times as it seems more and more clear that our economy has moved well past competition into monopolies and highly concentrated wealth.| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
We need a solid understanding of ethics now more than ever, and knowing Aristotle's Ethics can help us with that. Starting May 19, Dr Laurie Johnson will lead a four week series on Aristotle’s Virtue Ethics, with an emphasis on its use in Christian theology and practice in the final session. The class will take place on four Mondays: May 19 & 26th, June 2 & 9. Readings will be supplied but reading is not mandatory.| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
Laurie Johnson was recently interviewed by Jeffrey Church of the Political Theory Review podcast about her book, The Gap in God's Country.| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
Laurie interviews a very special guest, and Spencer misses out on the best interview in Dustbowl Diatribes three seasons.| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
Laurie Johnson just completed a four-part series on The Maurin Academy's Political Philosophy YouTube channel on American Founder James Madison's Federalist 10, which argues that the great extent of the American territory, and the Federal system, will work to protect the United States from the emergence of a faction of the majority and demagogues that could work against the common good.| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
On April 7, at 7 p.m. the Maurin Academy will host Dr Eugene McCarraher, author of The Enchantments of Mammon, live on Zoom for Patreon subscribers and guests registered on Eventbrite. Dr. McCarraher will speak on “The Enchantments of Mammon and Techne” as part of the Maurin Academy 2025 speaker series. Join this live event by becoming a patron of the Maurin Academy, or register on Eventbrite.| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
John Rao visits Dustbowl Diatribes for an episode tracing periods of "sleep" and revival in Catholic history.| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
The Maurin Academy is starting a new reading group, organized by Jakob, on Horkheimer and Adorno’s Dialectic of Enlightenment. You can join this group at the “Trainee” level or above on the Maurin Academy Patreon and gain access to Jakob’s reading group as well as Laurie’s Political Philosophy/Great Books reading group. You can find out ... Read more| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
Monday, March 3 at 7 p.m. US Central Time, Dr. Benjamin Studebaker, author of Legitimacy in Liberal Democracies, will give a live talk with Q & A by the same title, for Maurin Academy patrons and for registrants on Eventbrite. Patreon: patreon.com/maurinacademy Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/the-maurin-academy-311669 We think you’ll find some answers to how we got to ... Read more| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
Dr Neuhouser gave a talk for the Maurin Academy on Feb. 22, inspired by his book Diagnosing Social Pathology: Rousseau, Hegel, Marx and Durkheim, Cambridge University Press, 2022. This is the full recording of the speech without the live Q & A with patrons.| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
In the cacophony of voices reacting to the Trump administration’s attempt to dismantle the US government, one sentiment is largely missing: shame. We—all of us—should be ashamed of ourselves for letting this happen, for lowering our standards for decent, humane conduct, for becoming morally and culturally illiterate. All of us, but especially Christians, should be dismayed, especially by the emergence of leaders who, rather than denying such a thing is even real, proudly and openly call...| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
Tomorrow–be there for the live event with Q & A by being a Maurin Academy patron or joining through Eventbrite. “Can Societies Fall Ill? Diagnosing Social Pathology” with Dr Fred Neuhouser, tomorrow, Feb. 22. Patreon: https://patreon.com/maurinacademy Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/can-societies-fall-ill-diagnosing-social-pathology-with-neuhouser-tickets-1230572488439?aff=oddtdtcreator Be a patron of our speaker series and the TMA, and help us keep our sanity and ... Read more| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
If you like what we’re doing and would like us to continue to develop classes and groups aimed at “stopping environmental harm by changing our social relations,” please consider a year end gift to the Maurin Academy! We’re experimenting with different ways to convey the Regenerative Reader, and we landed on creating a webpage with ... Read more| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
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Spencer and Laurie talk to Dave McKerracher of Theory Underground about his book, Timenergy, and also his plans for farming.| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
Saturday, February 22 at 12 P.M. US Central Time, live on Zoom, join special guest, Frederick Neuhouser in discussing his latest book, Diagnosing Social Pathology: Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, and Durkheim. From the jacket: Can a human society suffer from illness like a living thing? And if so, how does such a malaise manifest itself? In ... Read more| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
Our February Communio Study Circle reading has been decided! We will be reading through Chapter Two of Sophia, The Wisdom of God: An Outline of Sophiology by Sergei Bulgakov. Where to buy the book: Angelico Press Abe Books We will meet in person and online on Saturday, February 15 at 4 pm US Central Time. ... Read more| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
Dr. Laurie M. Johnson discussing themes from her new book, subtitled A Longer View On Our Culture Wars, focusing on solving political disputes. This session dealt with direct action vs. the charity model.| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
Claire Provost and Matt Kennard are investigative journalists, and together they have produced a wide-ranging account of how governments, NGO’s and global corporations collude to extract wealth from taxpayers, workers and the poorest of the poor. The overall lesson of this book is that corporate governance has replaced liberal democratic government in the developed world, and in the developing world, colonial overlordship has given way to international corporate power.| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
On Thursday, January 23 at 7 p.m. US Central Time, Laurie will host an hour for a check-in with patrons and supporters. She will discuss what's coming up at TMA, especially a special guest speaker for February, Prof. Fred Neuhauser! His talk will be at noon Central Time, Saturday, Feb. 22, and will be hosted by TMA's Jakob Hanschu.| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
Spencer and Laurie talk with Benjamin Studebaker about his new book, Legitimacy in Liberal Democracies. Studebaker will give a speech for the Maurin Academy March 3, 2025.| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
Next Monday, December 16, we will be joined by Harry Murray for his second of four sessions on topics of his choice, related to Personalism and the Catholic Worker Movement! This upcoming session Harry will be presenting on the philosopher and theologian, Nikolai Berdyaev. To attend either this live session and discussion or watch the ... Read more| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
Spencer and Laurie interview Catholic Worker and Sociology professor Harry Murray, who is also doing the "Harry Murray Sessions" for the Maurin Academy. The next Harry Murray session, this one on Nikolai Berdyaev's personalism and Christian existentialism, will be on December 16, 2024. To find out more about this and other classes from the Maurin Academy, visit our website at: https://pmaurin.org/2024/11/13/fall-2024-speaker-series-announcements-from-the-maurin-academy/| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
Chris Orozco, former member of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, CA, is featured in Laurie's new book The Gap in God's Country: A Longer View On Our Culture Wars, as an example of someone who struggled with religious strong-arming and left a church whose doctrine increasingly reflected ideological possession.| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
Spencer and special guest Caleb Owens interview Laurie Johnson about her newly published book, The Gap in God's Country: A Longer View on Our Culture Wars. For more information about this book and where to buy it, as well as information about a series of talks she'll give on themes from the book, check out: https://pmaurin.org/2024/11/02/the-gap-in-gods-country-themes-discussion-with-laurie-johnson-coming-up/| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
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 Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
The Gap in God’s Country: Themes and Discussion With Laurie M. Johnson Series Dates: November 18, December 2 and 9, January 6 and 20 at 7 p.m. US Central Time, live on Zoom Laurie’s newly published book, The Gap in God’s Country: A Longer View on Our Culture Wars was recently published and sessions with ... Read more| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
Donald Trump will be our president for the next four years. We are living through unprecedented times. It’s hard not to see this as a huge protest vote—with several sometimes competing things being protested. The effects of globalization. Job insecurity. Alienation from others and anxiety about the future. Anxiety about rapid and continuous cultural change. Anger over elite privilege. The list goes on. I doubt if Donald Trump is going to change anything in a direction that fixes those pro...| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
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.| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
Jordan Daniel Wood honored us with two visits to the Maurin Academy’s monthly Communio reading group recently. This is just a short segment of a fascinating conversation with Dr. Wood, who is the author of The Whole Mystery of Christ: Creation as Incarnation in Maximus the Confessor. To get updated on upcoming Communio, other reading ... Read more| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
by Laurie M Johnson My latest book has been published by Wipf & Stock. My hope is that this book will help readers gain perspective on the political/culture wars that hold our societies back. While the focus is on the US and the causes of its economic, cultural, political and religious divisions, the information and ... Read more| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
This Friday, October 25 at 8 a.m. US Central Time, live on Zoom, Prof. Martin Chung (Hong Kong Baptist University/Center for the Study of Ethnic Conflict, Queens University Belfast) will give a lecture introducing us to Catholic Social Teaching on Economic Life and the International Community. We are doing this live session early because of ... Read more| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
Spencer and Laurie visit with Chris Cutrone, a leading founder of the Platypus Affiliated Society and the author of a new book published by Sublation Media. Here's a link to Cutrone's latest book, Marxism and Politics: Essays on Critical Theory and the Party, 2006-2024, Sublation Media, 2024. Maurin Academy Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/maurinacademy| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
Laurie Johnson interviews Dr. David Lay Williams, author of The Greatest of All Plagues: How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought From Plato to Marx.| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
The Spiritual Crises of Modernity: From Nominalism to Nihilism A Maurin Academy course with Deacon Christopher May 7 pm CDT live on Zoom on Tuesdays October 08, 15, 22, 29 Reportedly, William Temple, who became the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1942, once asked his father, who was then the Archbishop: “Father, why don’t philosophers rule ... Read more| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
The Uses of Idolatry, by William T. Cavanaugh, deals with the economic and political maladaptations of our day due to idolatry. The transfer of religious zeal and reverence towards politics and material things is, of course, ground that has been covered differently in books as diverse as Eugene McCarraher’s The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity, and my Ideological Possession and the Rise of the New Right. This book begins with the contributions of Max...| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
Spencer and Laurie talk to Catholic Worker Renée Roden about her experiences in the Catholic Worker movement and what she is doing now as she transitions to a new community. She also discusses the upcoming Peter Maurin Conference in Chicago: Sept. https://www.stgregoryhall.org/maurin.html| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
Laurie discusses her book The Gap in God's Country: A Longer View On Our Culture Wars with Clark, especially on the issue of poverty.| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
Join the Maurin Academy on Monday, August 19 at 7 p.m. US Central Time, live on Zoom for our biannual roundtable. This time around we will give an overview of the schedule for the rest of the year and have time for a Q&A session. We will also be joined by James Murphy to discuss ... Read more| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
Alfredo Poggi talks to Spencer and Laurie about his new book Magical Realism, Latin America, and the Appearance of Precritical Theory, published by Rowman & Littlefield. Poggi makes the bold argument for taking Marian visions at face value and seeing them as a powerful antidote to ideology. Poggi uses Latin American literary approach of magical realism to reveal a precritical perspective.| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
Hillbilly Elegy has become an important part of our public discourse, so Dr. Laurie Johnson is going to dedicate a public book club to this 2016 book. She'll go chapter by chapter through the book, giving a picture of what JD Vance is saying, from her perspective. Along the way, she'll be looking at the public comments on the Maurin Academy’s Political Philosophy YouTube channel and responding to them in the next video.| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
We are thrilled to welcome guest lecturer Harry Murray who will be teaching four classes over the next year, once every three months. The first session will be held on Monday, August 5 at 7 p.m. US Central Time, live on Zoom. He will be teaching about the intersections of the co-founder of the Catholic ... Read more| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
Welcome to the July issue of the Regenerative Reader, a bi-monthly newsletter from The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies. This issue of the Regenerative Reader features descriptions of upcoming classes and other ongoing programming, and several essays from Dr. Laurie M. Johnson, Renée Roden, and Zach Whitworth. You will also find announcements about upcoming Catholic ... Read more| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
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 Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
Laurie and Spencer discuss the implications and reverberations of the recent Maurin Academy lecture by the last Marxist, Chris Cutrone, and their interview with John Rao on Traditionalism and the Roman School. Both men discussed the time period of the 1848 revolutions in Europe. Maurin Academy Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/maurinacademy Maurin Academy Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/the-maurin-academy-311669 Political Philosophy: https://political-philosophy.com Dustbowl Diatr...| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
By Laurie M. Johnson My latest book has been published by Wipf & Stock! My hope is that this book will help readers gain perspective on the political/culture wars that hold our societies back. While the focus is on the US and the causes of its economic, cultural, political and religious divisions, the information and ... Read more| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
Dr. Miriam Dominguez introduces us to Sergio Mata’u Rapu and Elena Kouneski Rapu, whose independent documentary Eating Up Easter was picked up by PBS and helped to introduce the world to the richness of culture and the challenges of the Rapa Nui people who live on Easter Island, which include handling a tremendous amount of ... Read more| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
Here are the highlights from the latest issue of our Regenerative Reader! Attached to the bottom of this post is a .pdf document where you can find the entire issue. Be sure to sign up for our mailing list so you will be the first to see what is coming up! Eating Up Easter: Film ... Read more| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
Dr. John Rao drops in to tell Laurie and Spencer about Traditionalism, The Roman School, Dorothy Day’s Catholicism, and his critique of Emmanuel Mounier’s brand of Personalism. You can find his writings here: http://jcrao.freeshell.org/, and his work with The Roman Forum here: http://www.romanforum.org/| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
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.| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
Using selections of texts from Plato’s Republic, Gorgias, Symposium, and Laws, Laurie will discuss key ideas that attracted early Christians: Plato’s idealism (doctrine of the forms), his views on justice, the role of human love, the existence of God, and the afterlife. The last half hour, at least, will be for open discussion. Each session ... Read more| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
Co-Founder of the Permaculture movement, David Holmgren, talks to Spencer and Laurie about his analysis and predictions in his book Future Scenarios, his assessment that we are still in the “Brown Tech” energy descent scenario, and the implications for society moving forward. Holmgren Design: https://holmgren.com.au Online Writing: https://holmgren.com.au/permaculture-ideas-and-actions/writings/ Future Scenarios: https://www.futurescenarios.org Maurin Academy Patreon: https://www.patreon....| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
The micro-micro-niche internet celebrity Zabib take time out of her busy schedule to join Spencer to cover lots of ground in little time.| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
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Here’s a brief explanation of what’s going on with Jakob Hanschu’s reading group this year.| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
The last session in our food preservation series, next week on March 26, is a roundtable (including but not limited to Ryan, Chris, Spencer, Emily, Laurie) on the reasons why you should consider taking the time to do food differently. We will be getting into the social, cultural, economic and political ramifications of our food system and our choices. Join us by supporting u on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/maurinacademy| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
Laurie's latest Political Philosophy video. Political Philosophy is a Maurin Academy channel and podcast.| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
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: Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/canning-fermenting-and-why-tickets-851234283657 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/maurinacademy ... Read more| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
Spencer and Laurie talk to Dr. Benjamin Peters about his book Called to Be Saints: John Hugo, the Catholic Worker, and a Theology of Radical Christianity. Maurin Academy Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/maurinacademy Maurin Academy Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/the-maurin-academy-311669 Political Philosophy: https://political-philosophy.com Dustbowl Diatribes and Political Philosophy are podcasts of the Maurin Academy, which can be found on almost all ... Read more| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
Thursday, March 21 at 7 p.m. US Central Time, live on Zoom In collaboration with our friends at the Canterbury House in Chicago, we are hosting a Personalism roundtable discussion. Inspired from philosophers and writers such as Peter Maurin, Emmanuel Mounier, Nikolai Berdyaev, and many others. Some of the questions we will be pondering: The structure ... Read more| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
Laurie and Spencer interview Lincoln Rice of Casa Maria Catholic Worker, Milwaukee, and author of Healing the Racial Divide: A Catholic Racial Justice Framework Inspired by Dr. Arthur Falls, about what Arthur Falls’ strategy to combat racism, Falls’ relationship with the CW movement, the humanity of Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin, and issues of race ... Read more| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
Mark your calendars! The “last Marxist” Chris Cutrone, one of the founders of the Platypus Society, will be our guest for a live speech on Zoom with Q & A starting at 7 p.m. US Central Time, April 22. Cutrone has given several interviews on our own Dustbowl Diatribes podcast, and he is a frequent ... Read more| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
Enjoy our latest issue of the Regenerative Reader! This issue of the Regenerative Reader features several descriptions of upcoming classes for the next several months, an announcement of Laurie Johnson’s upcoming book, The Gap in God’s Country: A Longer View on Our Culture Wars, and other important announcements about Dustbowl Diatribes, Political Philosophy Monthly Chats, and ... Read more| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
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 Maurin Academy Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/the-maurin-academy-311669 Political Philosophy: https://political-philosophy.com Dustbowl Diatribes and Political Philosophy are podcasts of ... Read more| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
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| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
Spencer and Laurie talk to Michael Martin of the Regeneration podcast about his diatribe against modernity, insights from his literary knowledge, and how he operates his biodynamic farm. The Maurin Academy: https://pmaurin.org Support us on Patreon and receive all our live and recorded classes, podcasts and sessions! https://www.patreon.com/maurinacademy| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
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| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
The focus for the 2024 Marx Reading Group will be Marx’s writings on Non-Capitalist Social Formations. Topics discussed will include the transition from feudalism to capitalism, the accelerationist vibes of Marx and Engels’ 1840s writings, modes of production and non-linear history, Marx’s later rejection of evolutionary models, Marx’s Ethnological Notebooks, and Marx’s comments on several ... Read more| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
Enjoy our latest issue of the Regenerative Reader! This issue of the Regenerative Reader features descriptions of our upcoming classes, a letter from Jakob Hanschu about an update on our Patreon, a piece from Deacon Christopher May, five tips from Laurie Johnson to cut down plastic usage in your life, and important announcements about Dustbowl ... Read more| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
Maurin Academy Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/maurinacademy Maurin Academy Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/the-maurin-academy-311669 Political Philosophy: https://political-philosophy.com Dustbowl Diatribes and Political Philosophy are podcasts of the Maurin Academy, which can be found on almost all podcast platforms! Follow the Maurin Academy on Twitter and Instagram for notifications about upcoming events, and get our free newsletter: https://pmaurin.org/newsletter/| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
Spencer and Laurie have a second conversation with Dr. Rich Myrick about his dissertation, "Action Libérale Populaire and the Legacy of Catholic Republicans in the French Third Republic." His work covers the period in France that was formative for Peter Maurin, co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement.| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
More information about this course can be found on the course page here! Registration You can register for this course on our Eventbrite page here. Or you can become a Patreon member with us here.| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
Enjoy our latest issue of the Regenerative Reader! This is an extended issue of our Regenerative Reader, featuring a letter from our President, Laurie M. Johnson, an Easy Essay from Deacon Christopher May, our finalized mission statement, a piece from Spencer Hess, and all the information you need to know about our upcoming classes! Here’s ... Read more| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
On Tuesday, November 28 at 7 p.m. US Central Time, Deacon Christopher May will be leading a session on The Universal Destination of Goods, live on Zoom. Our prevailing economic order assumes that ownership of property implies the right to almost any arbitrary use, or non-use, of that property. However, the Catholic tradition teaches that ... Read more| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
Register on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/732275976157?aff=oddtdtcreator Get the class (and much more) through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/maurinacademy| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
Spencer and Laurie talk to Rich Myrick about his dissertation, "Action Libérale Populaire and the Legacy of Catholic Republicans in the French Third Republic." His work covers the period in France that was formative for Peter Maurin, co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement.| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
The event gets underway at 7 p.m. US Central Time and lasts till around 8:30 p.m. To join, support us on Patreon at the Worker Scholar level (all live and recorded Maurin Academy classes and sessions), or the Salt of the Earth level (all recordings), or register for this single event on Eventbrite!| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
Ryan Dostal’s next session for the Maurin Academy will be on Monday, November 13, at 7:30 p.m. US Central Time, live on Zoom. Seed saving saves money and encourages plants that work well in your region.Register on Eventbrite or join us on Patreon! Reminder that our classes are always recorded so if you can’t make it, we’d encourage ... Read more| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
