Welcome to Spirit of Solidarity—
We’re Ben and Tess, two former seminarians. We're writing for those, religious or not, who are engaged on the political Left and want to be in material solidarity, organize better, and figure out if and how religion and spirituality can help us do this. We began as Left Catholic, and we’re now Spirit of Solidarity because spiritual questions and political ones are often one and the same.
Having found ourselves communing with leftists of many stripes, we’ve also found the essentially religious fervor of the Left to be deeply in need of the grounding that spirituality, religion, theology, or whatever you want to call it can offer those seeking to disrupt the status quo. Religion survives in part because it becomes part of culture. It ties us to people and their lives, struggles, and humanity across time and place, and helps us understand human decisions, desires, and impulses — that the best organizers and community creators have to understand in order to build a different world, not just tear down the old.
What this looks like
We send out writing, sometimes on Sundays, and sometimes other days of the week. We both work (sometimes multiple) jobs, so we publish when we can.
If you want to come along for the ride with either a paid or free subscription, we’d be thrilled. If you want to support our work, we’d be grateful, but we’re honored if you join us however you can.
