The Sower (Summer 2024)
Here’s the Summer 2024 issue of THE SOWER, the newsletter of Strangers and Guests Catholic Worker Farm.

The Sower is the newsletter of Strangers and Gusts Catholic Worker Farm in Maloy, Iowa.

Here’s the Summer 2024 issue of THE SOWER, the newsletter of Strangers and Guests Catholic Worker Farm.

The Sower is the newsletter of Strangers and Gusts Catholic Worker Farm in Maloy, Iowa.
The mission of CatholicWorker.org is to document the Catholic Worker movement in all its diverse expressions around the world. The website includes a searchable archive of all of Dorothy Day's writings in THE CATHOLIC WORKER newspaper, a directory of all known Catholic Worker communities, information about the aims and means of the movement, and news from Catholic Worker communities around the world. See the About CW.org page for more information.
Singer-songwriter Steve Jacobs recounts the tale of a 1984 action at a SAC base that involved swim fins, a watermelon, the takeover of an island by seven hairy activists, and a pontoon boat overloaded with military police. What could possibly go wrong?
In June 2023, Brother Johannes r Maertens of the London Catholic Worker visited the Dunkirk refugee camp in the Northern France with the charity Art Refuge and joined the local team of the NGO Doctors for the World. Here’s his report.
Cassandra Dixon is returning to Masafer-Yatta in the West Bank in November to help Palestinian families there. Read her letter to supporters and find out how you can help.
We can all identify the ways the Spirit has helped us “see the light,” helping transform us from who we were then to who we are now, Matt Harper writes in this essay from the Catholic Agitator. But how often do we move with the recognition that the Spirit is never done weaving through our lives? How often do we live with an openness to whatever shifts She has planned next for us?
This Lent, we invite you to support our work financially. We are so grateful for the support offered to our community during the Advent season, which gave us a few months of peace of mind. However, this spring, we are now once again facing a monthly shortfall. Donations, especially recurring donations of any size, are greatly appreciated!
In this episode of “Coffee with Catholic Workers,” Theo Kayser interviews Dietrich Gerstner of Bread and Roses Catholic Worker (Hamburg, Germany) about the community’s work with refugees.