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The Tides of Life

Tidal Home , Jay Caskie Thoug h life unfolds in unplanned ways of moments amidst our lifecycles, each moment presents different challenges, and endurance is the cornerstone of our evolution. The ability to face adversity head-on and adapt could be the moment to test both the strength and weaknesses in human nature. My topic of writing is taken from the angle of a migrant from the African continent to Europe, which is miles away from the community I was raised in, to a new,

Billy Tendo

Apr 15

Houses of Hospitality

Expulsion of the Merchants from the Temple , Monreale Cathedral, Palermo I am the newest volunteer at GCH, here for a short(ish) stay of six months. I’ve been invited to write about coming to the community, and I thought of contrasting this place to Camphill, since I volunteered in one of those communities for ten months. The quickest way to draw out the difference between the two is the following—at the end of January, I was arrested at a Palestine protest. If this happen

Eva Martinez

Apr 11

Notes on Failure

Dorothy Day , John Orris “ Cert ainly the Catholic Worker movement has failed.” Dorothy Day wrote those words in a 1947 editorial reflecting on the movement’s first fifteen years. There are plenty of grounds to contest them—look at the miracle whereby this movement, with no structure, no consistent leadership, and of ten no money, has persisted for almost a century and now in more than one hundred communities. Countless people have been housed, fed, and clothed, and their dig

Thomas Frost

Apr 9