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Four more years of crab season Nov 12, 2024

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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.

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Magnificast Classic: Sergio Arce and the Church in Cuba Nov 05, 2024

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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 Oct 29, 2024

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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 Oct 22, 2024

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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 Oct 15, 2024

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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

Give to his family's go fund me here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/fc7rs-gregs-cancer-battle

Magnificast lock in: In heaven, we're all pizza Oct 08, 2024

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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.

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How to rebuke your cell leader Sep 24, 2024

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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 Sep 17, 2024

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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 Sep 10, 2024

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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 Sep 06, 2024

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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/

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