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2016-07-06T13:49:17-05:00

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Rediscovering the Golden String

Last updated on: July 6, 2016 at 1:49 pm By Elias Crim

Dear reader, be advised this will not be a standard book review. I have before me a review copy of Michael Martin’s new anthology, The Heavenly Country, An Anthology of Primary Sources, Poetry, and Critical Essays on Sophiology. I want to respond not in a scholarly fashion–I am not that much of a scholar–but in an amatory mode, i.e., that of the amateur of these ideas. And as to the relevance of this review to our mission here, I think... Read more

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2016-07-04T08:07:24-05:00

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Turning America Around

Last updated on: July 4, 2016 at 8:07 am By Mark Gordon

In 1976, the evangelical church of my youth celebrated the bicentennial of American independence. Since my dad was the pastor and my mother the music director, my brothers and I were often pressed into service as singers. For our big Independence Day service, I was given the following song, titled “Statue of Liberty,” to sing, which I did with conviction: In New York Harbor stands a lady, With a torch raised to the sky; And all who see her know she stands... Read more

Catholic Social Teaching

Community building, models or forms of community, radical hospitality

Mark Gordon

Peace, nonviolent resistance, conscience and conscientious objection

2016-07-03T11:47:04-05:00

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What Wretches Feel: Neoliberalism is dying, we must replace it with something better

Last updated on: July 3, 2016 at 11:47 am By Mike Stafford

“The global economy is not working for the majority of people in our country and the world. This is an economic model developed by the economic elite to benefit the economic elite.”- Sen. Bernie Sanders “The true strength of our democracies … must not be allowed to collapse under the pressure of multinational interests which are not universal, which weaken them and turn them into uniform systems of economic power at the service of unseen empires.”- Pope Francis The neoliberal... Read more

Alternative economics, worker and family empowerment, the spirituality of work, the economy of sharing

Catholic Social Teaching

2016-06-09T20:07:47-05:00

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Dumb Things I Used to Believe

Last updated on: June 9, 2016 at 8:07 pm By Elias Crim

Having come into the Church as a convert on Easter Sunday, 1986, I am what’s called a JP II Catholic. I remain one, although I would have to explain that adjective differently today, thirty years later. Before Saint John Paul the Great came to prominence, I had already made a summer visit to see up close his country’s great cultural adversary, the U.S.S.R. Given my political views in those days, my travels made it clear to me: we were winning... Read more

Alternative economics, worker and family empowerment, the spirituality of work, the economy of sharing

Elias Crim

Poverty, economic inequality, consumerism, unemployment, underemployment, living wage

2016-05-30T08:57:26-05:00

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A Saint for a New Socioeconomic Order

Last updated on: May 30, 2016 at 8:57 am By Elias Crim

Saints, G.K. Chesterton once pointed out, are an antidote to whatever the age neglects. Such figures restore the world to sanity by exaggerating whatever it has overlooked. In today’s world of Trumpism, our little band here at the Dorothy Option is arguing that a large dose of Dorothy Day is long overdo for American society. But just as Chesterton juxtaposed brilliantly St. Francis and St. Thomas, the more to underline their complementarity, so we might propose a figure (also with... Read more

Alternative economics, worker and family empowerment, the spirituality of work, the economy of sharing

Catholic Social Teaching

Community building, models or forms of community, radical hospitality

Elias Crim

2016-05-27T11:00:58-05:00

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Junger’s Hunger, And Ours

Last updated on: May 27, 2016 at 11:00 am By Mark Gordon

A couple of years ago, I took some members of a large Rwandan refugee family to a St. Vincent de Paul store nearby. I was accompanied by a Rwandan friend and translator, Jeanette Akimiyimana, herself a refugee who has been in the United States for ten years. As we pulled away from the triple decker where the family had been placed, Jeanette began to chat with one of the teenaged girls in Kinyarwanda, the principal language of Rwanda. Before long they were laughing and the pace... Read more

Community building, models or forms of community, radical hospitality

Corporal & Spiritual Works of Mercy

Dorothy Day, Peter Maurin, CW aims and means, spirituality

Mark Gordon

Peace, nonviolent resistance, conscience and conscientious objection

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2016-05-24T10:54:39-05:00

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Preparing for President Trump

Last updated on: May 24, 2016 at 10:54 am By Mark Gordon

What I’m about write is not an exercise in partisan advocacy. I belong to neither of the dominant political parties in the United States, which I consider to be two dead ends in the same blind alley. Nor do I belong to any other party. Nor do I consider myself a member of the Right or the Left. Nor do I appropriate for myself meaningless labels like liberal and conservative. No, this is not a partisan statement. But it is... Read more

Catholic Social Teaching

Christian Friendship

Community building, models or forms of community, radical hospitality

Corporal & Spiritual Works of Mercy

Mark Gordon

Peace, nonviolent resistance, conscience and conscientious objection

Radical Christianity

2016-05-18T11:52:59-05:00

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Book Review: “Called to Community: The Life Jesus Wants for His People”

Last updated on: May 18, 2016 at 11:52 am By Mark Gordon

I write today for the purpose of recommending “Called to Community: The Life Jesus Wants for His People,” the latest book from Plough Publishing. Edited and introduced by Charles Moore, with a foreword by Stanley Hauerwas, “Called to Community” is an essential collection of 82 essays and perspectives on the broad themes of a call to community, forming community, life in community, and engaging the world through community. Plough Publishing is an arm of the Bruderhof (“place of brothers”), an Anabaptist... Read more

Catholic Social Teaching

Christian Friendship

Community building, models or forms of community, radical hospitality

Dorothy Day, Peter Maurin, CW aims and means, spirituality

Mark Gordon

Radical Christianity

2016-05-11T17:25:41-05:00

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The Fire This Time (Revisited)

Last updated on: May 11, 2016 at 5:25 pm By Mark Gordon

This essay is adapted from the original which appeared at Vox Nova on August 23, 2011. Driving through Watch Hill, a wealthy neighborhood perched atop a promontory that juts out into the Atlantic Ocean from the town of Westerly, Rhode Island, one might be forgiven for thinking that all is well in the Republic. Here, handsome families stroll the covered walkways of the village, past high-end realtors’ offices, upscale gift shops, and charming restaurants. Expensive sail and motor boats bob on their moorings... Read more

Catholic Social Teaching

Mark Gordon

Radical Christianity

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2016-05-06T14:50:31-05:00

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Substituting Charity for Justice

Last updated on: May 6, 2016 at 2:50 pm By Daniel Schwindt

This is the skillful attempt that is being made to substitute Philanthropy for Justice. There is not one of these foundations, now spreading their millions over the world in showy generosity, that does not draw those millions from some form of industrial injustice. Read more

Alternative economics, worker and family empowerment, the spirituality of work, the economy of sharing

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