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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
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Something cool about having a podcast is that you can talk about whatever you'd like and no one can stop you. This week, we're doing just that. We've both gotten really interested in photography as a hobby and practice, so we're talking about Vilém Flusser's Toward a Philosophy of Photography and also some ideas about how it relates to the photographs of Mev Puleo, a photographer who was involved in liberation theology.

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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. 

Intro Music by Amaryah Armstrong 
Outro music by theillogicalspoon 
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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

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 ab...

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. 

• Nathan Weatherford
• Thomas Niblett
• Mark Ho...

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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Outro music by theillogicalspoon

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This week, we're back to reading books! We've got some hot takes about the economic message of the Gospels that you didn't learn about in church from Richard Horsley's book You Shall Not Bow Down and Serve Them. We'll be back with the second part of the book next week. 

Intro Music by Amaryah Armstrong 
Outro music by theillogicalspoon 
https://theillalogicalspoon.bandcamp.com/track/hoods-up-the-low-down-technified-bl...

It's an election year, which means that every person you know will tell you what they think about voting. We're no different. In this episode, we're talking about Joe Biden, the SOTU, Palestine, and the uncommitted vote. 

Intro: Amaryah Armstrong

Outro: theillalogicalspoon

• Nathan Weatherford
• Thomas Niblett
• Mark Holmes
• Patricia Fong
• Reader11
• Zach Rind
• Natasha Leader
• em...

You might have noticed that the podcast feed has been empty for a few weeks. Dean has been travelling the world and went all the way to Nepal to the World Social Forum to rub elbows with liberation theologians and activists. This week, Dean is back and ready to tell us all about it. 

Learn more about the World Social Forum here: https://www.wsf2024nepal.org/organization/activity/59

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Happy Valentines Day/Ash Wednesday. Here's a classic ep to help us think about love. 

"Love is a power, and for that reason we cannot sequester it from all politics or keep it trapped in theological and mystical privacy. Love is not a neutral power that agrees with everything. But love lives precariously in a world that vacillates between not knowing what it is and subjecting it to the values of capital."

This week, Matt and...

Dean is halfway around the world at the World Social Forum talking liberation theology, so this week we're bringing you one from the archives. This conversation still seems timely given the new round of He Gets Us ads at the super bowl.

This week, Josiah Daniels has joined us from the frontlines of the culture war, where he's been reporting on the He Gets Us campaign for Sojourners. In this episode, we talk about the "elite...

This week on the podcast we're thinking about the way St Francis approached animals in his life. To take the idea of animals a bit more seriously we read the book Animalia: An Anti-Imperial Bestiary for Our Times. In the episode, we talk about the imperial history of apes, dogs, cattle, whales, foxes and even unicorns! 

Check out the book here: https://www.dukeupress.edu/animalia#:~:text=The%20contributors%20to%20Animalia%2...

This week, we're taking a look at Leonardo Boff's 2014 book Francis of Rome, Francis of Assisi and talking through Boff's thoughts on reforming the Catholic church, how Pope Francis might do that, and what it means for Pope Francis to take up the project of St. Francis.

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This week we're chatting with Alex Mikulich about his book Unlearning White Supremacy: A Spirituality for Racial Liberation. In the pod we talk about the importance of understanding the colonialist roots of Christianity, how white people can practice anti-racism, and what ecology and degrowth have to do with white supremacy. 

Check out the book here---> https://orbisbooks.com/products/unlearning-white-supremacy-a-spiritu...

You might have heard that this year we're making a big effort to read the Bible. In our reading plan, we just finished up reading Genesis, so in this week's episode, we're going to talk about our experience reading the first book of the bible. 

If you want to join the community of Magnificasters reading the bibe, then joins us over at patreon.com/themagnificast. 

• Nathan Weatherford
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That's right folks, Marika is back to talk about her new book out with SCM Press, Theology for the End of the World! Find Marika's other writing at the AUFS blog: https://itself.blog/author/cmarikarose

• Nathan Weatherford
• Thomas Niblett
• Mark Holmes
• Patricia Fong
• Reader11
• Zach Rind
• Natasha Leader
• emerson
• Frank Bergh
• Rosemary Holland
• molly eo
• Will
• Shelby S
• Nath...

Today on the pod, we're taking a moment to think through the ongoing genocide in Palestine and Munther Isaac's Christmas sermon Christ in the Rubble. 

Palestine Resources
https://www.movement.org.uk/blog/palestine-resource-pack
https://www.redletterchristians.org/christ-in-the-rubble-a-liturgy-of-lament/

• Nathan Weatherford
• Thomas Niblett
• Mark Holmes
• Patricia Fong
• Reader1...

We're taking some time off for Christmas, so here's one from the archives! 

Ho Ho Ho, we're back with more Christmas content for all you Whos down in Whoville. This week, we talked with Pamela Klassen, a professor in the study of religion at the University of Toronto. She edited a rad collection of essays called The Public Work of Christmas and we're excited to talk with her and figure out what Christmas is all about! You c...