What do you get when you throw one person from Oregon, two from Iowa, one from Minnesota, one from Michigan, and one from North Carolina together in a house in Delaware? So far it’s been teasing each other’s accents, discussing the difference between “scotcharoos” and “special K bars,” and wondering when we’re going to run into Joe Biden. Exploring the east coast this first month has been an adventure. One of our first goals in Wilmington was to get to know our neighborhood. We ate our first dinner as a house outside on our front porch. We made an effort to say hello to everyoneRead More →

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My name is Ahna, and I live in one of the D. C. houses: Junia. It is located in the Petworth neighborhood and it is called home by three Lutheran Volunteers and three Loretto Volunteers. For those of you who don’t know, the Loretto Volunteer Corps is an Catholic volunteer organization. They are a group of spunky feminists who focus on spirituality, sustainability, and social justice. This is the first year where the two programs have come together to share a house, and I feel remarkably lucky to be a part of it. There is no way I can capture everything that has happened forRead More →

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At National Orientation, our LVC leaders succeeded in preparing us for the challenges of communal living.  As a house, Redeemer spent hours considering our communication styles, our conflict resolution skills, and the goals and expectations we had for ourselves.  However, nothing could have prepared us for just how much fun we would have! For cynical folks like me, this introduction may seem extremely canned and insincere.  Don’t get me wrong, like any LVC house we have ongoing debates, struggles, and conversations around how we want to live, where our priorities lie, and how to spend our money and time.  But I really must emphasize howRead More →

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Reclining around their large, oak wood table after dinner, they bounce jokes off one another and lean back with boisterous laughter, occasionally jumping up to write a particularly funny line on the quote board, before suddenly shifting into a somber conversation about workday frustrations or tough lessons from life in the city. I had the pleasure to witness this dynamic group of LVCers when I sat down with the Bonhoeffer Burrow over the weekend for a quick interview. We talked food, art, transit struggles, hangout spots, and more. Keep reading to catch the highlights. So let’s start with the name. I understand it has toRead More →

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The new residents of Wellstone House are so excited for this year! We’ve been spending the last (almost) month getting to know our neighborhood, our job placement sites, and perhaps most importantly, each other. Our house, in the Powderhorn Park neighborhood of Minneapolis is beautiful, homey, and welcoming! Despite our love for our new home, we quickly learned that our house has some fun “quirks,” including dead animals! We started off our LVC journey strong when we bonded over a dead mouse just before going to bed on our first night together. At 11:30 PM after quickly deciding bedroom assignments, this discovery was a uniqueRead More →

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