Elias Crim is an editor, writer, translator, and publisher who founded the national blog and publisher Solidarity Hall in 2013 and the podcast Dorothy’s Place, named for Dorothy Day, in 2017.
Elias has written for the American Scholar, Hedgehog Review, Shareable, Arion, Strong Towns, Front Porch Republic, America, Diogenes (UNESCO), and other publications. His latest book, Confessions of a Street Catholic, was published earlier this year. He is co-host with the writer and civic advocate Pete Davis of the podcast Lost Prophets, which is dedicated to recovering prophetic voices from the mid-twentieth century and rediscovering what they can teach us today.
Our conversation with Elias approached the current state of American Catholicism from many angles. We looked at what the Polish Solidarity movement—the namesake for Solidarity Hall—might teach us about organizing a spiritual revolution, shared the importance of Small Christian Communities in rebuilding the church from the ground up, and contemplated the concept of “ecclesial solidarity” as a way to mend intra-church divides and begin to “speak as one.” We also delve into Confessions of a Street Catholic—a must-read for anyone interested in envisioning new forms of Catholic culture and community—and consider how a post-parochial, post-national, and even post-denominational world church might evolve in response to a time of social, ecological, and technological transformation.
See also:
Confessions of a Street Catholic (with additional background here)
“Toward a New Politics of Care: Reexamining Broken-World Thinking,” Elias’s essay in the Hedgehog Review, Fall 2024
Foolishness to Gentiles: Essays on Empire, Nationalism, and Discipleship by Michael Budde
A Paradise Built in Hell by Rebecca Solnit
The Spirit of Solidarity by Father Józef Tischner
Background on Nicholas Berdyayev
The Convivial Society, a a newsletter exploring the relationship between technology and culture by L. M. Sacasas
