Unruly Saint: Dorothy Day’s Radical Vision and its Challenge for Our Times (audio)

by D. L. Mayfield

Publisher:

christianaudio.com

, 2022

Overview

In Unruly Saint, activist, writer, and neighbor D. L. Mayfield brings a personal lens to Dorothy Day’s story. In exploring the founding of the Catholic Worker movement and newspaper by revisiting the early years of Day’s life, Mayfield turns her attention to what it means to be a good neighbor today. In 1933, in the shadow of the Great Depression, Dorothy Day started the most prominent Catholic radical movement in United States history, the Catholic Worker Movement, a storied organization with a lasting legacy of truth and justice. Day’s newspaper, houses of hospitality, and ministry of paying attention to the inequality of her world would eventually become world famous, just as she would become a figure of promise for the poor. The ways in which Day and her fellow workers both found the love of God in and expressed it for their neighbors during a time of great social, political, economic, and spiritual upheaval would become a model of activism for decades to come. In Unruly Saint, activist, writer, and neighbor D. L. Mayfield brings a personal lens to Day’s story. In exploring the founding of the Catholic Worker movement and newspaper by revisiting the early years of Day’s life, Mayfield turns her attention to what it means to be a good neighbor today. Through a combination of biography, observations on the current American landscape, and theological reflection, this is at once an achingly relevant account and an encouraging blueprint for people of faith in tumultuous times. It will resonate with today’s activists, social justice warriors, and those seeking to live in the service of others.

Product Details

• Title: Unruly Saint: Dorothy Day’s Radical Vision and its Challenge for Our Times (audio)
• Author: D. L. Mayfield
• Publisher: christianaudio.com
• Print Publication Date: 2022
• Logos Release Date: 2022
• Era: era:modern
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Audio
• Subjects: Religion › Christian Living--Social Issues; Religion › Christianity--Catholic; Catholic Worker Movement; good neighbor; social justice warriors
• ISBNs: 9781545920657, 1545920656
• Resource ID: LLS:9781545920657
• Resource Type: Media
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-12-08T18:08:02Z

About D. L. Mayfield

D. L. Mayfield is a writer and activist who has spent over a decade working with refugee communities in the United States. Her work has been published in McSweeney's, The Washington Post, Christianity Today, Christian Century, Sojourners, Vox, and the Englewood Review of Books. She is also the author of Assimilate or Go Home: Notes from a Failed Missionary on Rediscovering Faith. She lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband and two children.