The Simple Way

If you don't know, Jonathan and I have been friends for a long time, going back to the 1900s.

This next year will be the 30th year of The Simple Way.

the little community we've been forming on the North side of Philly.

And, uh, that's where I originally got to meet Jonathan and his wife and partner, uh, Leah.

Yeah.

I mean, that was from the whole God is dead era, right? Yeah.

Sort of, uh, modern anxiety that you know maybe we've maybe we've built a world where we're waiting for a god who's never going to show up but um but you know that book that that you're quoting that jonathan was quoting from there that's alistair mcintyre's book after virtue and back um in 1999 when we were hanging out with you at the simple way and uh i was just beginning to try to convince leah to date me uh it took a

little while didn't it took just a little

Hopefully every war that comes will be the most protested war in history.

But at the time, it was happening all over the world, all over the United States, my own community here at The Simple Way.

Folks surrounded the federal building and over 100 people went to jail, many of them like 80, 90 years old, and also young people that were joining hands together to say, not in our name, please.

We can remember those who died.