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Hospitality and facing one's own limitations at the Bloomington Catholic Worker

One of the Bloomington Catholic Worker houses
One of the Bloomington Catholic Worker houses

Inner States intern Kaity Radde brings us a story about a community of people who have made some choices that a lot of people would admire, but most of us don’t actually follow through with. They live in voluntary poverty. They welcome people without homes to live with them - with certain qualifications, as you’ll hear. This is the Bloomington Catholic Worker community. They might be saints, they might not be Catholic, and they might just be regular humans, who get cranky as much as the rest of us.

Listen on this week's episode of Inner States.

Alex Chambers runs WFIU’s arts desk, and produces and hosts WFIU’s Inner States, a weekly podcast and radio show about arts, culture, and ideas from southern Indiana and beyond. He’s the co-creator of How to Survive the Future, a podcast about the present, produced in partnership with Indiana Humanities. He has a PhD in American Studies, with a dissertation called Climate Violence and the Poetics of Refuge, and a book of poems called Bindings: A Preparation, about domestic life and empire. In his spare time, he teaches audio storytelling at the IU Media School. When he’s not in the woods gathering sound, you might see him out for a run on the streets of Bloomington.