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The Gauntlet of Goofs Apr 22, 2024

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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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Magnificast Classic: James Connolly w/ Brett O'Shea Apr 15, 2024

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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
“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) Apr 09, 2024

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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.

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 Apr 01, 2024

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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 Mar 25, 2024

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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.

Intro Music by Amaryah Armstrong

Outro music by theillogicalspoon

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Jesus and economics Mar 19, 2024

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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.

2Joe2Biden Mar 12, 2024

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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

Katmandean Mar 04, 2024

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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

Magnificast Classic: Love and Communism w/ Richard Gilman Opalsky Feb 14, 2024

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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 talk with Richard Gilman-Opalsky about his new book The Communism of Love
An Inquiry into the Poverty of Exchange Value (https://www.akpress.org/communismoflove.html.)

Magnificast Classic: He Gets Us w/ Josiah Daniels Feb 12, 2024

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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 capture" of Jesus, dark money, and the conservative Christian PR machine.

Follow Josiah here: @josiah_Rdaniels
Read Josiah's piece here: https://sojo.net/articles/what-he-gets-us-ads-get-wrong-about-jesus
Listen to Josiah talk about this on NPR: https://www.npr.org/2023/02/11/1156344092/behind-the-he-gets-us-ads-for-jesus-airing-during-the-super-bowl

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