Broken and Shared: Food, Dignity, and the Poor...
The essays that make up Broken and Shared were originally published bi-monthly, over a forty years period, in The Catholic Agitator, the Los Angeles Catholic Worker newspaper.
The vast scope of Jeff Dietrich’s essays introduces the reader to a world like no other. These essays combine the stories of poor women and men with a record of the author’s civil disobedience, and with a chronicle of the city’s attitude of depraved indifference when it comes to the treatment of its poor, with a day-to-day history of the rapidly changing landscape that is downtown Los Angeles. The arguments and analyses in this book are predicated on singular and radical readings of the Biblical texts in counterpoint with a varied and rich array of philosophical, literary, and critical ideas.
Through the lens of Jeff Dietrich’s perspective and rooted in his life of self-imposed poverty, this book is both a prescription for change and an inspiration for how we might find ways to live more meaningful lives by learning the importance of caring for those who have nothing to offer but themselves.
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