By Paul Engler It’s hard to overstate the importance of “monastic retreats” and “meditation retreats” in my life. Not only have they been the source of some of the greatest …
By Garrett Allen At the Center for the Working Poor some things are constant year to year. We have a steady stream of visitors from around the country and world …
I’m happy to report that our community has stabilized at the Center for the Working Poor house. We haven’t had one person leave in the past year! A welcome contrast …
The Center for the Working Poor was founded in 2006, but we didn’t move into our large Victorian house until 2007. Therefore, we have been in the house for 14 …
The life of the house has changed dramatically this year due to Coronavirus. We normally have a steady stream of people coming in and out of the house who we …
After being invited to Barcelona, Spain this fall for a chaotic tour of book talks, TV appearances, and radio interviews, I needed a place to recover from all the activity. …
Greetings from the Center for the Working Poor, aka The Center, aka the Burning Bush community! Things at the house have been settling down since the midterm elections. We jokingly …
As many of you know, I am a social justice geek. I compulsively read and think about social movements, and have been doing this for a long time, and am …
I first got involved in social justice work at the age of 14, the summer after my freshman year of high school. I was totally politicized by a youth-led service …
Last year, during my senior year of college at Occidental, I was tasked with writing a senior thesis— a capstone research project that served as a graduation requirement for the …