Intentional Catholic Neighborhood Community with Katie and Brandon McGinley

05/25/20 • 41 min

Katie and Brandon McGinley live with their four children in an intentional Catholic neighborhood community. Brandon is a Catholic writer, and Katie is a retired librarian and full-time homeschooler. They discuss how their community began and how they’ve grown since then. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced them to think creatively about community building, and they share the ways they’ve safely stayed in touch with and supported the people they’re close to. They also look to the future, covering what it will be like coming out of lockdown and how they hope to see Catholic communities grow as a result of the pandemic.

Community Begins with Friendship

Organization and Growth of Communities

The Spontaneity That Comes from Having a Stable Community

How Big Can a Neighborhood Community Grow?

Modeling Communities on the Present

A Quarantine Holy Week

Being Social while Respecting Social Distancing

How Quarantine Could Change Religious Communities

Links:

Brandon’s Plough Article The Noonday Devil by Jean-Charles Nault Real Learning: Education in the Heart of the Home by Elizabeth Foss

Community Begins with Friendship

Organization and Growth of Communities

The Spontaneity That Comes from Having a Stable Community

How Big Can a Neighborhood Community Grow?

Modeling Communities on the Present

A Quarantine Holy Week

Being Social while Respecting Social Distancing

How Quarantine Could Change Religious Communities

Links:

Brandon’s Plough Article The Noonday Devil by Jean-Charles Nault Real Learning: Education in the Heart of the Home by Elizabeth Foss

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Luther in Plague Time with Allyson Creasman

Allyson Creasman is an associate professor of history at Carnegie Mellon University, where she specializes in the German reformation. Dr. Creasman paints a thorough picture of the pandemic in Luther’s time, examining the early modern quarantine legislation and the secularization of the healthcare system. She discusses whether Luther would have a Twitter, what his thoughts on social distancing were, and what the debates over censorship in Luther’s time can teach us about today’s controversies over fake news.

Censorship and Dissemination of Information in Reformation Germany

Martin Luther’s Response to Plague

Secularization of Healthcare

Early Quarantine Legislation

Early Modern Understandings of Plague

Sociological Ramifications of the Bubonic Plague

Links:

The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio

Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia by Christina Thompson

The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel

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Andy Warhol and Theology of Contemporary Art with Jonathan Anderson

Jonathan Anderson, associate professor of art at Biola University, is currently pursuing a PhD in theology and religious studies. He joins us to discuss contemporary art and its theological implications. The conversation ranges from Christological approaches in art to the best artists currently dealing with theological themes.

Art patronage in the past and today

Financialization of art

Epiphany and theophany

American modernism

The modern museum

Politics in vision

Secularity

Christological approach to art

Discourses of contestability

Links: Modern Art and the Life of a Culture, co-authored by Jonathan Anderson

Modern Art and the Death of a Culture by H. R. Rookmaaker

Andrea Büttner