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Catching Foxes

College of St. Joseph the Worker's Jacob Imam talks with Gomer

Catching Foxes

Luke and Gomer

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Tv & Film

4.8 β€’ 769 Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 15 December 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

I was lucky to interview Jacob Imam about the merger between higher education and Catholic social justice principles, especially on the dignity of non-exploitative work and of the trades. Jacob lives in Steubenville, Ohio with his wife and kids and works at New Polity. He and Michael Sullivan launched the now approved College of St. Joseph the Worker.

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  • College of St. Joseph the Worker
  • Announcing The College of St. Joseph the Worker | Starting Fall 2024 - YouTube — Mike Sullivan and Jacob Imam are excited to announce that the College of St. Joseph is now state-approved and accepting students for Fall 2024. The College's mission is to teach students a trade, provide a liberal arts education, and graduate them without crippling debt.
  • New Polity — Steubenville, OH 43952 The 4th annual New Polity conference, "Should We, Therefore, Destroy the Servers," is a three-day opportunity to consider, discuss, and debate technology as to its nature, its status as a totalizing form of life, its effects on politics, and the possibilities and limits of doing something about it. Featuring a keynote from Michael Crawford, a Gala dinner on Saturday night, and the opportunity to present your own ideas on Thursday night, we continue to try to one-up ourselves. Looking forward to seeing you there. Like actually seeing you!
  • Should We, Therefore, Destroy the Servers? | 2024 Event β€” NEWPOLITY — Featuring a keynote from Matthew Crawford, a Gala dinner on Saturday night, and the opportunity to present your own ideas on Thursday night, we continue to try to one-up ourselves.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Yeah, your setup looks so fancy.

0:07.9

You got a fancy setup there.

0:09.5

We do.

0:10.0

We have a properly fancy setup.

0:12.5

We took over an old room designed in the 90s at the height of 90s aesthetics.

0:22.0

That sounds like Stubmanville.

0:23.3

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

0:24.2

1890s maybe, but yeah, okay.

0:26.2

So at least you're close.

0:27.9

Yeah, yeah.

0:28.9

We, and then we built a workshop, like literally on the other side of this wall.

0:33.3

It's our big workshop.

0:34.2

And so we had to make sure there was no sound was coming in.

0:36.0

So we built a kind of not quite a floating room but we pretty much built a floating room within this room

0:42.3

and yeah we thought if we're going to do it let's do it so we got a lot of handy guys on staff

0:47.8

yeah man where can I get cheap source of labor to build a sound... Oh, I know.

0:56.1

The very institutional... Is the college of St. Joseph, the worker, just an excuse for you to remodel your house without having to do it?

1:01.3

Yeah, that's exactly it.

1:03.0

You know, it's just like, honey, you know, I know we want to do mass masonry.

1:06.5

We can't afford it.

1:07.9

You know, it's either like try and get a whole bunch of like children from

1:10.9

China or, you know, do this. Listen, honey, I know you want subway pile in the bathroom,

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