For this episode we welcome our dear friend, Dimitri Kadiev, to join us under the ginkgo. Dimitri sat with Liam at Maryhouse Catholic Worker in the East Village for an extended conversation. This was at the end of week spent with Liam and Jim, as well as over 100 students at Iona University, where he led a community mural project. Dimitri speaks of pilgrimage, epiphanies, and the artistic process. He shares insights into the possibility of living a radical, creative, Spirit-led life by telling us how about his travels through the world.

Edgar Hayes and Ann Rader join us to speak about Freedom Farm, the community that they co-founded in 2006. Freedom Farm is “a faith-based organization based in Mount Hope, New York, that grows food to share with people who don’t have access to or can’t afford fresh produce.” They identify as a “gathering place for learning, healing, and reconnecting to this sacred earth, each other, and God.” Throughout our conversation, we get a sense of Edgar and Ann’s journey into this work. We discuss the spiritual and ethical commitments that inspire Freedom Farm. We also discuss the place of Freedom Farm in a wider web of communities and initiatives committed to spirituality, sustainability, and social justice.

Learn more about Freedom Farm at their website: https://www.freedomfarmcommunity.org/

Welcome back to Under the Ginkgo Tree. Today we revisit a panel conversation moderated by Liam at Maryhouse Catholic Worker with Martha Hennessy and Dr. Cornel West on May 1st, 2022. This conversation was a celebration of Mayday, which is known as the "birthday" of the CW movement. On this day in 1933, Dorothy and her friends went to Union Square to hand out the first edition of the newspaper.

In this episode, Jim and Liam frame the conversation by recalling their own shared connections with the Catholic Worker movement. We also lift up prayers for the late Pope Francis.