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Magnificast classic: Peace on the Korean Peninsula w/ Patti Talbot

The Magnificast — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 16:09:46 +0000

Life has once again gotten in the way of the pod, but we've got a good classic episode for you!

Heavenly middle managers

The Magnificast — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 19:50:24 +0000

This week we've got reddit questions, new events, and old events.

Here are the things we talked about in this episode!
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/05/archbishop-of-canterbury-sarah-mullally-change
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Geddes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gianfranco_Sanguinetti

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Plastic bones

The Magnificast — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 06:00:00 +0000

Bad news folks, just like Jimmy Kimmel and Steven Colbert, the president has cancelled us, but not to worry, we're coming at you from the depths of the magnificent family life center with all of the reddit questions you can handle and some takes about current events.

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Socialism and Communes

The Magnificast — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 14:43:39 +0000

We were chatting last week about monasticism and the commons, this week, we're diving into a bit about communes and socialism guided by a recent issue of the Monthly Review.

Read the articles from Chris Gilbert here: https://monthlyreview.org/articles/socialist-communes-and-anti-imperialism-the-marxist-approach/

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Commons and monasticism

The Magnificast — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 06:00:00 +0000

Capitalism: we hate it. It's taking over every section of life and commodifying the things we need to live. A lot of socialists talk about reviving and reclaiming the commons, and that sounds good to us, but what kind of institutions would we need to manage those commons?

Don't worry, some economists have some ideas: monasticism.

Read the article we're talking about in the show: https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/HistoriaIndustrial/article/view/40930/40628

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Slow Down or Die

The Magnificast — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 06:00:00 +0000

This week on the podcast, we're talking about Timothée Parrique's new book Slow Down Or Die: the economics of degrowth. Specifically, we're talking about the third chapter on social reproduction and the ways capitalism commodifies everything dissolving social bonds and what churches look in the wake of that dissolution.

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Magnificast Classic: The Socialist Jesuit One W/ David Inczauskis SJ

The Magnificast — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 21:06:48 +0000

This week, we're bringing you back to 2021, to a conversation we had with David Inczauskis SJ.

ChatBCP

The Magnificast — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 06:00:00 +0000

We're wrapping up our book on degrowth and liberation theology this week, so we're just doing a fun one. This week on the pod, we're locking-in, answering some reddit questions, talking about current events, and complaining about AI.

Here's the episcopal chatbot article we mentioned on the show: https://www.christiancentury.org/features/priesthood-all-chatbots

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The Theology of Relinquishment

The Magnificast — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 15:05:15 +0000

Last week, we talked about dependency theory and trash. This week on the pod, we're talking about how some theologians from the Global North responded to liberation theology and dependency theory at its height in the 1970's and 80's. You'll also hear two grandpas talking about a long gone Christian band called The Psalters.

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Magnificast Classic: Joe Wallace, the Greatest Canadian Communist Christian Poet in the Soviet Union

The Magnificast — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 14:05:01 +0000

Ernesto Cardenal is great, right? He is, but have you ever wondered who the Greatest Canadian Communist Christian Poet in the Soviet Union was? Well, it was Joe Wallace.

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Riding spaceship earth

The Magnificast — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 10:35:48 +0000

This week on the pod, we're talking trash! This week we get into dependency theory, Leonardo Boff, and coffee

Here's the study we mentioned about sustainable coffee brewing: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352550921001160

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The Liberation from Trash

The Magnificast — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 06:00:00 +0000

Lately, we've been talking about the resonance between regrowth and liberation theology when it comes to talking about consumption patterns in the Global North. This week, we're taking a look at the result of all that consumption: trash. Trash plays an essential economic role in capitalism in the way it creates growth. Want to know how? Then listen to this episode!

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This could be you (bones)

The Magnificast — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 06:00:00 +0000

Folks, this week, we're locked in answering reddit questions, talking about cranky liberation theologian, Clodovis Boff, and ICE raids.

Find the article from Mel Buer that we talked about here: https://www.welcometohellworld.com/a-life-was-snuffed-out-in-the-pursuit-of-a-quota/

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Degrowth bishops

The Magnificast — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 12:59:13 +0000

This week on the pod we're talking about the new statement from the Bishops of the Global South for COP30. In their statement they reject false solutions like technocracy and green capitalism and argue that the way forward is degrowth!

Read the statement here: https://www.cidse.org/2025/07/01/churches-of-the-global-south-call-for-climate-justice-resisting-false-solutions-and-standing-for-hope/

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https://cruxnow.com/church-in-the-americas/2025/05/liberation-theology-old-timers-mourn-francis-and-reflect-on-next-pope
https://www.ncronline.org/vatican/disgraced-cardinal-becciu-agrees-obey-francis-wishes-and-leave-conclave
https://archive.is/OXF2i

AI is demonic

The Magnificast — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 19:22:16 +0000

This week, we're talking about a new article that Matt has in Sojourners Called Is AI Demonic? Throughout the ep, Matt and Dean talk about Rod Dreher, ChatGPT induced psychosis, the history of the telegraph, and how our only hope is organizing our workplaces.

Read Matt's Sojourners article here: https://sojo.net/articles/opinion/ai-demonic

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Oops all war

The Magnificast — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 21:12:39 +0000

This week on the pod, we're talking about the militarization of society, speed, politics, and death. In case you couldn't guess based on that constellation of topics, this episode features one of our favs, Paul Virilio. Throughout the episode, we're primarily referencing Paul Virilio's book Pure War. But we also reference Virilio's The Administration of Death.

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Magnificast classic: Abolition & Marxism

The Magnificast — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 21:47:08 +0000

Folks, we're once again kind of busy this week and couldn't record an episode. However, given the ongoing protests and police violence in LA, I thought it might be fun to give you this classic ep from 2020 about police abolition and Marxism. Please do not hold us too accountable for anything we said in 2020...unless it's good, then we're accountable.

Christian tools for conviviality

The Magnificast — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 19:55:37 +0000

We talk a lot on this show about all of the bad stuff that Christianity contributes to the world. But this week, we're talking about the historical Christian tools and ideas that have contributed something good to the world. Specifically, we're linking together some of overarching themes we find in left-wing expressions of Christianity that have something to contribute to degrowth socialism. We've got Basil the great, St. Francis, Gerard Winstanley, and Thomas Müntzer. You're not going to want to miss this!

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Pope news: Pope Leo Edition

The Magnificast — Tue, 27 May 2025 06:00:00 +0000

Folks, we've got a new Pope. Pope Leo is here and we're going to tell you about him. In this episode, we cover the midwest pope meme, Rod Dreher's take, the Pope and his past on survivors of sexual abuse, and his emerging takes on AI.

Here are the articles we talked about in this episode.
https://religionnews.com/2025/05/21/theres-an-american-pope-and-hes-just-like-us-at-least-we-really-really-want-him-to-be/
https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2025/05/23/cardinal-czerny-pope-leo-250770
https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/speeches/2025/may/documents/20250517-centesimus-annus-pro-pontifice.html
https://apnews.com/article/vatican-pope-peru-sodalicio-6fcdbb103f78aaeccc58e7b22f81e868
https://www.ncronline.org/opinion/guest-voices/faith-and-deepfakes-pope-leo-xiv-age-ai

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Magnificast classic: The Imperial Mode of Living

The Magnificast — Tue, 20 May 2025 15:42:45 +0000

We're recouping from all the travel we've done in the last week, so enjoy a classic ep.

Get the book here if you want: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3691-the-imperial-mode-of-living

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Conclave 2

The Magnificast — Tue, 06 May 2025 16:07:05 +0000

Folks, the conclave kicks off tomorrow and we can barely contain ourselves. This week, we're doing a round up of everything you need to know before we get conclaving.

Here are the articles we referenced
https://www.ncronline.org/vatican/conclave-roundup-conclave-begin-less-48-hours
https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2025/05/young-people-tell-cardinals-they-want-a-role-in-the-future-church

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Pope news: conclave edition

The Magnificast — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 14:01:06 +0000

In this episode, Matt and Dean reflect on Pope Francis' life, death, and everything that comes after. Later in the episode we talk about conclave and how to think about some of the reporting on who will be the next Pope.

Read Dean's article on the Conclave in the Nation: https://www.thenation.com/article/society/pope-francis-jorge-bergoglio-dead-obituary/
Also read Dean's article reflecting on the Pope who was too often ignored: https://sojo.net/articles/opinion/mourning-pope-we-often-ignored

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Weaponized anti-christian bias

The Magnificast — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 14:18:54 +0000

There's a Cheeto in the White House and he's once again doing some devious stuff. Back in February, the President signed an executive order against the weaponization of anti-Christian bias. Listen in for the whole story.

Articles we talked about
https://theconversation.com/claims-of-anti-christian-bias-sound-to-some-voters-like-a-message-about-race-not-just-religion-250729
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/11/state-report-anti-christian-bias-033535

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Magnificast classic: Angels, Cyborgs, or Just Guys? W/ Marika Rose

The Magnificast — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 08:16:40 +0000

We're back with an episode from the vault. Dean is out traveling through the exotic province of Ontario, so this week we're giving you a classic Episode with Marika Rose.

You might remember a few weeks back we talked about Angels from the perspective of a weird book by Michel Serres. Well, we decided we couldn't leave the conversation there. We needed an angel expert. So, this week, we're joined by Marika Rose to talk about angels, cyborgs, and her new book, Theology for the End of the World.

If you're in the UK, you can preorder Marika's book here:
https://scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/9780334060666/theology-for-the-end-of-the-world

You can get it in late July if you're not in the UK.

Also, in the episode, Marika talks about she and her colleagues taking industrial action at the University of Winchester. Support them here: https://www.ucu.org.uk/fightingfund

Muscular Evil Grimace

The Magnificast — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 10:57:00 +0000

This week, we're talking about degrowth, misunderstandings, and liberation theology.

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The MAGA Dei

The Magnificast — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 06:00:00 +0000

In the gospel, Jesus says you've got to love your enemies. But, that's such a hard thing to do when your enemies are so contemptible, cruel, and stupid. This week, we're getting to the bottom of how to love your enemies, but not in a cringe way.

Here are the articles and books we mentioned in this episode.
The best way to love Elon Musk? Protest him - https://sojo.net/articles/opinion/best-way-love-elon-musk-protest-him
Revolutionary Forgiveness by the Amanecida Collective - https://wipfandstock.com/9781666719802/revolutionary-forgiveness/

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The Missile or Messiah

The Magnificast — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 11:07:53 +0000

There have been some "strategic conversations" lately in Europe about nuclear sharing and other scary ideas about the proliferation of nuclear weapons. So, we're using this as an opportunity to talk about how Christians have thought about nuclear weapons and mass death.

Here's the Bill Wylie-Kellerman essay we read from at the end of the episode: https://geezmagazine.org/magazine/article/eucharist-at-gunpoint

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Building your own Christian Gundam

The Magnificast — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 11:34:05 +0000

Last week, we had a chat about right-wing forms of Christianity. This week, we're taking a bit of a different approach and thinking through the process of building counter Christianities to help keep ourselves mentally healthy (maybe) and oppose right-wing Christianity.

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Not Fake christians or heretics, but a secret third thing: Christians.

The Magnificast — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 14:13:15 +0000

If you're a long-time listener of the Magnificast, you'll know that we have a unique analysis of the question: are right-wing Christians actually Christians? We've got another round of right-wing Christians in power at the moment, so we're bringing the discourse back and telling you everything you need to know.

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Welcome to the crypt

The Magnificast — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 16:33:48 +0000

Magnificast lock in? No. This week, we're descending into the crypt. Buckle up bone perverts, it's time to answer all of the hottest bone related reddit questions.

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Magnificast lock in: Gaseous Jesus

The Magnificast — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 15:30:47 +0000

This week, we're locking in and answering all of the hottest questions from the internet about Christianity. In this episode, we talk about walking into a Catholic Church, gaseous Jesus, Nudist Episcopalianism, Scotland, and chicken fossils.

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The Structural Problems of Green Growth

The Magnificast — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 11:08:43 +0000

When it comes to climate change and mitigation, some have suggested that we harness the power of capitalist growth and use it for something useful like green energy. But, there are some problems baked into capitalism about why that won't work. Listen in and learn all about why.

Here are the books we mentioned in the ep.

Brett Christophers - The Price is Wrong - https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/3069-the-price-is-wrong?srsltid=AfmBOoq28BkqbNEqmZ1FJ1zTK0jnuVuJ5aYkb54H9xr2EaBfuU-Uph2E

Andreas Malm and Wim Carton - Overshoot - https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/3131-overshoot?_pos=1&_psq=Overshoot&_ss=e&_v=1.0

Zip lines, the opiate of the masses

The Magnificast — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 10:55:23 +0000

Over the past few weeks, Trump's mass deportations have started and everyone's least favorite Catholic convert, JD Vance, has tried to add the intellectual weight of Catholic social teaching to defend it. In response, Pope Francis wrote a subtle reply to Vance. Tune in this week and learn more!

Also, read Jim Hodgson's blog on USAID here: https://unwrappingdevelopment.ca/2025/02/09/dismantling-usaid-yes-no-maybe/

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Magnificast classic: Friends of Sabeel North America W/ Jonathan Kuttab

The Magnificast — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 09:23:36 +0000

With Trump back in the White House, Threatening to ramp up the genocide against Palestinian people, it's a good time to revisit the conversation we had with Jonathan Kuttab.

To talk about solidarity with Palestine we brought on Jonathan Kuttab, the director of Friends of Sabeel North America, to tell us about Palestinian Liberation Theology, the horrors of Israel's apartheid, and what the good news of Christianity is in light of that apartheid.

Find out more about Friends of Sabeel North America here: https://www.fosna.org

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Magnificast Classic: Sandino's Nation w/ Stephen Henighan

The Magnificast — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 16:14:06 +0000

Due to some unforeseen circumstances, we're bringing you an episode from the archive!

We're always talking up a storm about Ernesto Cardenal, but this time around we're talking with Stephen Henighan, a real scholar on Latin American literature! In this episode, we learn more about Cardenal's background, influences, and his lasting impact on the politics of Nicaragua.

Cuba update w/ Jim Hodgson

The Magnificast — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 15:29:04 +0000

This week, we chatted with a friend of the show, Jim Hodgson, about Biden removing Cuba from the State Sponsors of Terrorism list. Unfortunately, since we recorded this Trump has rescinded that decision and we're right back where we started. It's still a worthwhile conversation!

Get more from Jim at his blog: https://unwrappingdevelopment.ca/

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Spongebob Economics

The Magnificast — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 10:51:22 +0000

Last week we talked about the GDP and growth and that was fun. But, this week, we're taking things a bit further by talking about monopoly capitalism, monopsony, and the financialization of capitalism.

If you want to learn more about finance then look no further:
https://monthlyreview.org/2010/10/01/the-financialization-of-accumulation/

https://monthlyreview.org/2010/10/01/the-great-financial-crisis-three-years-on/

GDeanP

The Magnificast — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 06:00:00 +0000

Capitalism can't work unless it's growing. How do economists measure capitalist growth? Through the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The GDP is a magical number that goes up and down, but do you know how it's calculated? Well, tune in and learn all about the GDP and why it sucks!

Liminal lockin

The Magnificast — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 06:00:00 +0000

In the weird liminal space between Christmas and New Year's, your favorite leftist youth pastors are locking you in to talk about feeling bad for the devil, dinosaurs, bones, magic portals, and AI.

Magic doors and debt forgiveness

The Magnificast — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 17:45:41 +0000

The Pope is opening the magic doors for the year of Jubilee! In this episode, we're talking about the 2025 year of Jubilee in the Catholic church. Of course, we're talking about the weird Catholic stuff in this episode, but we're also talking about the material side of the Jubilee and the campaign to forgive and restructure debt throughout the world.

Josiah Daniels in Palestine

The Magnificast — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:06:28 +0000

This week, we chat with, friend of the pod and Sojourners editor, Josiah Daniels about his recent trip to Palestine with Sabeel. Listen in as we talk about Palestinian resistance, liberation theology, and what it's like to be an American in Palestine at this moment in history.

Read Josiah's piece about his trip in Sojourners.

Social Murder

The Magnificast — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 06:00:00 +0000

The last few weeks have been an advent calendar of wild stuff happening. This week, we're reflecting on the latest bit of news and discourse about the murder of the United Healthcare CEO and talking about how liberation theology helps us orient ourselves stopping and organizing against social murder.

Multilateralism from below

The Magnificast — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 10:31:34 +0000

The rules-based international order is rigged in favor or the United States and other global north countries and it's only going to get worse. In this episode, we talk about the failures of liberalism and multilateralism during the Biden presidency and talk about the future of what solidarity looks like under new right-wing governments.

In this episode, we reference Pope Francis' Laudate Deum (https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/apost_exhortations/documents/20231004-laudate-deum.html) and Jon Sobrino's Theology of Christian Solidarity (https://archive.org/details/theologyofchrist0000sobr)

What do liberals even want?

The Magnificast — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 10:46:11 +0000

Folks, we're back. As a disclaimer, the first 6 or so minutes of the podcast is Dean giving an update on his second trip to the bone church in Rome. So, if you're not an enjoyer of bones and crypts smash that fast forward button! After that we talk about John Pavlovitz, Christianity, liberalism, and what it is liberals even want out of their politics.

Magnificast classic: Powers of the Other Shore

The Magnificast — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 06:00:00 +0000

While Dean is traveling, enjoy this episode from 2021!

When it comes to Christianity and politics everyone loves to talk about the "political imaginary." This week we're going to talk through the political imaginary and what it's all about! To do that, we read a really fascinating article called Bhima Koregaon and the “Powers of the Other Shore by Saroj Giri you can read the article here: https://monthlyreview.org/2021/10/01/bhima-koregaon-and-the-powers-of-the-other-shore/

Four more years of crab season

The Magnificast — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 06:00:00 +0000

Folks, the US election just wrapped and we're here to report that we've got four more years of crab season. There's no escaping it! In this episode, we snap our claws, blow some bubbles, and scuttle around while we chat about the election results and all of the stuff we're not looking forward to.

Magnificast Classic: Sergio Arce and the Church in Cuba

The Magnificast — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 16:31:49 +0000

It's Election Day, so we're giving you an old episode. We hope everyone has fun out there.

Liberation theology is cool! But, what about theology done from inside revolutionary contexts like Cuba? This week we're discussing Cuban theologian Sergio Arce Martinez and his book The Church and Socialism. You can check out his book here on archive.org. What's interesting about Arce's work is that rather than theology as a critique of capitalism, you get theology as a constructive project of what Christians should do in a socialist society.

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Remembering Gustavo Gutiérrez

The Magnificast — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 06:00:00 +0000

This week on the pod, we're remembering Liberation Theologian, Gustavo Gutiérrez, by chatting about his life and his work. In the episode, we talk about his impact on Catholicism and just why he was controversial. Then, we talk about Gutiérrez' thoughts on poverty and solidarity

The Magnificast travelogue: The Bone Church

The Magnificast — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 06:00:00 +0000

Matt and Dean spent some time in Rome last week and this week we're reflecting on our trip to the Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Capuchins, a church with a crypt full of the skeletons of 3,000+ Capuchin monks in it. In the episode we reflect on the bones, death, Jean Bone-drillard, how weird tourism is, and what's going on in the gift shop.

Magnificast classic: Merton, Monaticism, And Marxism, Oh My! W/ Greg Hillis

The Magnificast — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 13:10:10 +0000

This past week, friend of the pod, Greg Hillis passed away. Greg was a great scholar and wrote a fantastic book on Thomas Merton called Man of Dialogue: Thomas Merton's Catholic Vision. Back in 2019 we talked with him about his book. Tune in and celebrate Greg with us.

You can get Greg's book here: https://litpress.org/Products/8460/Man-of-Dialogue?srsltid=AfmBOopqHnBJy3UDYkI9esGMSr8Wp5uait3kASHrrUddqZT2S-RtmPJF

Read America's obituary of Greg here: https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2024/10/10/tribute-greg-hillis-249015

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Magnificast lock in: In heaven, we're all pizza

The Magnificast — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 06:00:00 +0000

This week, Matt and Dean are geographically together in Scotland. To mark the occasion, they finally get to the bottom of what happens to your body when you're resurrected. Get excited to find out what happens.

How to rebuke your cell leader

The Magnificast — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 20:17:28 +0000

This week, Dean is preparing for his big European adventure, so we're taking it easy with another episode of the Magnificast Lockin. If you don't know, the magnificast lockin takes place in an alternate reality, where we're your youth pastors and we're answering pressing spiritual questions. We also talk a bit about climate change and the ghosts of popes past.

Crab Season

The Magnificast — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 06:00:00 +0000

It's crab season, folks. We're here giving your our crabbiest takes about Christians for Kamala and the ways evangelicals and mainline Christians are engaging with the presidential election.

Magnificast Classic: Communist Morality w/ Taylor Genovese

The Magnificast — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 14:11:47 +0000

Dean is traveling this week, so here's one more from the archive. Dean should be back next week and we'll get things back on track.

Since we talked with Richard Gilman-Opalsky a few weeks ago, we've focused a bit on the idea of morality and communism as a relationship between people. To keep riding that theme, we talked with Taylor Genovese about his essay The Necessity of Communist Morality!

You can find Taylor's article here: https://www.peacelandbread.com/post/the-necessity-of-communist-morality

Magnificast classic: Monopoly Capital 2: Two Paul Too Furious

The Magnificast — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 09:00:00 +0000

Matt and Dean are traveling this week, so here's another one from the archives!

It's time for the second installment of our Monopoly Capital series. In this episode, we talk about the ways monopoly capital reabsorbs all of the surplus it produces in some incredibly frustrating ways!
Here's the MR article we mentioned in the show: https://monthlyreview.org/2016/07/01/surplus-absorption-and-waste-in-neoliberal-monopoly-capitalism/

Magnificast classic: Monopoly Capital Part 1

The Magnificast — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 09:00:00 +0000

Dean and Matt are traveling this week, so in lieu of a new episode, here's an older episode where we, once again, learn basic economics.

Capitalist growth

The Magnificast — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 10:19:40 +0000

In this episode, we're talking about capitalist growth again and why it's fundamental to capitalism and why it doesn't help anyone but the moth wealthy!

Here's the book we were talking about throughout the episode:What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism: A Citizen’s Guide to Capitalism and the Environment by Fred Magdoff and John Bellamy Foster https://monthlyreview.org/product/what_every_environmentalist_needs_to_know_about_capitalism/

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Magnificast Classic: The Fearless Benjamin Lay w/ Marcus Rediker

The Magnificast — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 16:00:59 +0000

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The Future of Denial w/ Tad Delay

The Magnificast — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 07:00:00 +0000

This week we're joined by Tad Delay to talk about his new book The Future of Denial: The Ideologies of Climate Change. In the episode, we talk with Tad about climate denial, liberalism, psychoanalysis, and why there's still hope!

You can find Tad's book on Verso.

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White Property, Black Trespass

The Magnificast — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 10:47:40 +0000

This week we're joined by Andrew Krinks to talk about his new book White Property, Black Tresspass: Racial Capitalism and the Religious Function of Mass Criminalization. It's a really cool book that explores the links between a carceral society, religion, and capitalism.

You can preorder Andrew's book from NYU Press. Use NYUAU30 at checkout for 30% off.

Find more from Andrew at andrewkrinks.com, on X @andrewkrinks and BlueSky @andrewkrinks.bsky.social.

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Magnificast classic: Development & Liberation

The Magnificast — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 10:16:25 +0000

Welcome to Magnificast classic™ where we give you an old episode because we were traveling or something. Last week we chatted about the IMF and development. Here's an older episode where we discuss something similar.

How does the IMF and World Bank work?

The Magnificast — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 23:18:15 +0000

We all know the IMF and the World Bank are evil and stupid organizations, but have you ever wondered how they work? In this episode, we get into the weeds about the IMF and World Bank with the help of Éric Toussaint's book, Debt, the IMF, and the World Bank: Sixty Questions, Sixty Answers.

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Do not match my Jesus freak

The Magnificast — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 09:00:00 +0000

This week on the show, we're talking about recent political turmoil, psychoanalysis, and why evangelicals do the things they do.

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This Sweet Earth w/ Lydia Wylie-Kellermann

The Magnificast — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 14:13:39 +0000

This week we're joined by Lydia Wylie-Kellermann, author of the recently published book: This Sweet Earth: Walking with Our Children in the Age of Climate Collapse. It's a great book about climate change, kids, and community. Get it now at the link below!

https://www.broadleafbooks.com/store/product/9781506495125/This-Sweet-Earth

Magnificast Crossover: Christian leftist politics on the SCM podcast

The Magnificast — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 14:57:57 +0000

Folks, this week we got a chance to chat with William Gibson on the Student Christian Movement UK podcast. In the episode, we chat about solidarity, faith and action, and voting.

Find more from the SCM podcast here: https://open.spotify.com/show/5K5WY43VsMDucQPJftwZVA?si=5a09edf02d78410e

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Magnificast Classic: Sergio Arce and the Church in Cuba

The Magnificast — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 14:04:24 +0000

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The ideological college apparatus

The Magnificast — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 13:18:22 +0000

This week, we're talking about the recent news about Cornerstone University's decision to shutter all of their humanities departments and Christian higher education as a site of ideological reproduction.

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Religion, revolution, and the future - remembering Jürgen Moltmann

The Magnificast — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 22:08:13 +0000

With the recent passing of Jürgen Moltmann, we thought it would be worth chatting about some of his thoughts about the Christian-Marxist dialogue. In this episode, we talk about Jürgen Moltmann, Christian freedom, and what freedom movements have to say to one another.
Check out the book here:
https://archive.org/details/religionrevoluti0000molt/mode/1up

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Magnificast classics: Revolutionary Forgiveness

The Magnificast — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 21:30:02 +0000

This week on the show, we're talking about a really neat book called Revolutionary Forgiveness: Feminist Reflections on Nicaragua by the Amanecida Collective. The book is a reflection on 13 theologians who took a number of trips to Nicaragua in the early 80's. The book highlights a lot of interesting interactions between Christianity and politics during the Nicaraguan Revolution.

Find the book here: https://wipfandstock.com/9781666719802/revolutionary-forgiveness/

Have you prayed about this?

The Magnificast — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 06:00:00 +0000

Folks, The new Magnificast late night talk show is back with another round of headlines, current events, and rambling takes about democracy. This week we're talking about the conviction of Donald Trump, Global Elections, What's happening in the UK Labour party, and Cuba news. Tune in!

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A composted church

The Magnificast — Tue, 28 May 2024 10:23:19 +0000

This week, we're coming up for air and talking about some of the big trends in Christianity with regards to its declining membership and closing churches. Listen in and hear our takes on what it all means for Christians on the left.

Here are the links we mentioned in the show
https://www.churchofscotland.org.uk/news-and-events/news/articles/transgender-people-are-loved-by-god-and-welcome-in-the-church
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/21/majority-of-people-in-scotland-do-not-believe-in-any-religion-census-shows
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/religion/article/94218-has-the-growth-in-nones-stalled.html#:~:text=After%20rising%20steadily%20since%202007,Article%20continues%20below
https://news.gallup.com/poll/507692/church-attendance-lower-pre-pandemic.aspx#:~:text=Church%20Attendance%2C%20Past%20Seven%20Days%2C%20Historical%20Trend&text=Church%20attendance%20in%20past%20seven,in%20most%20years%20before%202013.

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Magnificast classic: Black Lives Matter and the Catholic Church w/ Olga Segura

The Magnificast — Sat, 18 May 2024 14:46:11 +0000

We've got another cool interview from the archive this week!

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Ireland and Liberation Theology

The Magnificast — Tue, 14 May 2024 20:31:45 +0000

Folks, we're Ireland pilled. This week we dive into Ireland and how liberation theology shows up in the 20th century struggles. As it turns out, it's complicated! Throughout the episode we talk about the history of Ireland, the troubles, Liberation theology and reconciliation.

Here are the books we talk about in this episode.
https://archive.org/details/bwb_T2-DWJ-929
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-ecclesiastical-history/article/abs/catholic-church-and-the-northern-ireland-troubles-19681998-by-margaret-m-scull-pp-xii-236-incl-4-figs-1-map-and-1-table-oxfordnew-york-oxford-university-press-2019-65-978-0-19-884321-4/1C08A60FE0E7227967428983925EB301

Campus Protest Wave

The Magnificast — Tue, 07 May 2024 19:33:11 +0000

Students have been organizing campus protests at universities across the world, so we're going to have a chat about it. This week, we talk about the campus protests from the level of strategy and pull together a few narrative threads about the faith angle to these protests.

These are the articles we talked about in this episode
https://sojo.net/articles/student-encampments-echo-jesus-parable-annoying-powerful
https://religionnews.com/2024/04/30/how-showing-up-for-student-protesters-may-teach-them-more-than-shouting-them-down/

Toward a Philosophy of Photography

The Magnificast — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 07:00:00 +0000

You can find Mev Puleo's book The Struggle is one here: https://archive.org/details/struggleisonevoi0000pule/mode/2up

The Gauntlet of Goofs

The Magnificast — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 19:34:51 +0000

This week, we're easing back into podcasting after taking a bit of a hiatus. So, we're getting back into the swing of things with some of our favorite goofs. Don't worry; next week, we'll be back with something a bit more substantive. Also, Dean's audio sounds bad...Sorry.

Magnificast Classic: James Connolly w/ Brett O'Shea

The Magnificast — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 07:00:00 +0000

Podcasts are hard for busy and successful people like us. We're away travelling this week and next. But, we'll be back with fresh content later this month.

This time, Brett O'Shea from Rev Left Radio is joining us to talk about everyone's fav Irish revolutionary, James Connolly! If you're following along at home, you can check out the writings by Connolly that we read for this ep here:
“Socialism and Religion” - 1899
“The Connolly-DeLeon Controversy” - 1904
“Labour, Nationality and Religion” - 1910
“An Exchange on Rome and Irish Catholics” - 1912
“Catholicism, Protestantism and Politics” - 1913

Magnificast Classic: God Isn't an Investment Capitalist (that's right it's parable of the talents time)

The Magnificast — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 14:22:28 +0000

Podcasts are hard for busy and successful people like us. We're away travelling this week and next. But, we'll be back with fresh content later this month.

We're still out here doing this Bible study, and this time we're doing a classic, the parable of the talents! You might think God wants you to invest the gifts he's given you so you can grow his kingdom, but guess what, if you knew a ton of extremely niche information about the first century you'd find out you're wrong!

Magnificast classic: The CIA & Liberation Theology

The Magnificast — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 06:00:00 +0000

This week, Matt is away travelling, so we're giving you a spicy episode from the vault!

Theology? Yeah, it's boring. Liberation theology? It's DANGEROUS--well, at least according to the CIA! This week we take a look at a few right wing documents from the 1980's that recognize that liberation theology was a possible threat to US hegemony.

Paul and Economics

The Magnificast — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 06:00:00 +0000

Last week, we hit you with the first half of Richard Horsley's book, You Shall Not Bow Down and Serve Them, and this week, we have part two on Paul and his economic message.

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