Elias Crim

(He/Him)

Executive Director, Freelance
Author and Co-Host, Solidarity Hall (Newsletter)
Co-Host, The Lost Prophets Podcast (Newsletter)

Washington, D.C.

Business and Finance, Opinion and Editorial, Religion

As seen in: Solidarity Hall (Newsletter), The Lost Prophets Podcast (Newsletter), Medium, Substack, Patheos, University of Notre Dame, America Magazine, The American Conservative, South Bend Tribune, Nonprofit Quarterly, Popular Resistance, Resilience.org and

Covers: Solidarity economy, radical religion, localism

Doesn't Cover: Culture war

Solidarity Hall is a group blog and podcast focused on community renewal grounded in reflection.

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Elias Crim is an editor, writer, translator and publisher who founded the national blog Solidarity Hall in 2013 and the podcast Dorothy’s Place (with co-host Pete Davis) in 2017. He has written for the American Scholar, Shareable, Arion, Front Porch Republic, America, Diogenes (UNESCO), and other publications. He is working with Pete Davis on a new podcast about lost prophets from the mid-century.

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Solidarity Hall

Solidarity Hall is a podcast, a publishing project, and especially a community of friends with interests in t…

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How an Irish Bakery Became a Healing Workplace - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly

Can baked goods heal? In Washington DC, a social enterprise bakery founded three years ago seeks to demonstra…

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Can 'Cathonomics' produce a just and sustainable world?

The common good is the good of our shared social endeavors that transcends the good of each individual and ca…

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Do Christians Have a Responsibility to Protect?

Elias Crim reviews Michael Budde's book, Foolishness to Gentiles: Essays on Empire, Nationalism, and Disciple…

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A Good Party: A Review of Breaking Ground - Front Porch Republic

A Good Party, Tara Isabella Burton suggests, is "a place where bonds of friendship, fostered in a spirit of b…

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Meet Tyler Station, the collaborative village uplifting minority-owned small businesses

The site houses some 70 small businesses in what Monte Anderson calls "a collaborative village." It's what's …

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From citizenship to membership

Jun 29, 2026 |

By Elias Crim

| solidarityhall.org

The Italians have a name for their local loyalties—campanilismo, taken from the word campanile, the iconic bell tower which is found on the skyline of many Italian cities. An old joke about the slightly fanatical devotion Italians have for their cities is about a guy planning to buy Italian postage stamps. His friend says, “You’re going to buy stamps in Florence?”, looking askance at the idea. He then advises, “No, no—you should buy stamps in my city, Milan.

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In the Bardo of Grief: Part Two

Jun 29, 2026 |

By Elias Crim

| solidarityhall.org

Bringing grief and death out of the shadow is our spiritual responsibility, our sacred duty. –Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow In what feels like a long time ago--mid-April 2020--there reigned ever so briefly a Great Silence in the world. Do you remember? As the Covid pandemic was beginning to pour across the planet like an invisible tidal wave, a quiet suddenly fell over everything. For a few days and weeks, the whole unstoppable whirring machine of modern civilization shuddered to a halt.

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Invitation: the Reflections of Mondragon founder Fr. Josemaria Arizmendi

Jun 29, 2026 |

By Elias Crim

| solidarityhall.org

“The world has not been given to us to contemplate but to transform, and this transformation is not made by hands but first with ideas and action plans.” A priest working in a war-town, impoverished Spanish village, he collaborated with local working people to eventually become perhaps the most successful social entrepreneur of the twentieth century.