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Crucified People Mar 26, 2022

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In this episode, we're talking about the shortcomings of substitutionary atonement and Ignacio Ellacuria's The Crucified People.
Substitutionary Atonement is a weird idea that gets Christians into all kinds of problems, but what if there's actually an interesting and helpful way to think about soteriology that isn't just making God an angry computer.

Get the essay here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yaSdCWCjqsqofnwEimWOHHOGJnXK6B7O/view?usp=sharing

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Big Structural Almsgiving Mar 20, 2022

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Over the last few weeks, we've been talking about the big themes of lent. So far, we've talked about fasting & temptation. This time, however, we're talking about almsgiving and charity. You're going to love it.

Jesus in the Desert Mar 12, 2022

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We're into week 2 of our Lent theme and this time we're talking about temptation! We're reading Luke 4:1-13 and talking through the three temptations the devil brings to Jesus in the desert. To back us up, we bring in some ideas around political power and temptation from liberation theology.

Lent, Fasting, & Degrowth Mar 04, 2022

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Lent is a time of fasting that gets co-opted by capitalism in all kinds of very gross ways and that sucks. But, what might fasting look like as a political idea? We might work this out by thinking about fasting in terms of degrowth in the face of climate change!

Here are some of the books we talked about in this episode

Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World - Jason Hickel
Inventing the future - Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek
Freedom Church of the Poor - Colleen Wessel-McCoy

War: What If We Just Didn't? Feb 26, 2022

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This week, we have no choice, but to weigh in on what's happening with Russia and Ukraine. A lot of people have particularly hot takes about this chapter in geopolitics, and so do we: war is bad, actually and we have the moral imperative to build a peace movement.

Here are the statements we talked about on the show
Pax Christi - https://paxchristiusa.org/2022/02/24/pax-christi-usas-statement-on-russians-invasion-of-ukraine/
Poor People's Campaign - https://kairoscenter.org/press-releases/statement-on-russias-attack-on-ukraine/

Cry of the Earth, Cry of the Poor Feb 18, 2022

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You know we love books, so this week we're reading Leonardo Boff's Cry of the Earth, Cry of the Poor and talking about liberation theology, ecology, the poor as a protagonist class, and more!

This is what Jubilee looks like Feb 13, 2022

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This week on the podcast we're continuing our theme of talking about money and economics in the context of the Bible. This time, we're talking about Jubilee and what it means to do that work in 2022! We mentioned a lot of cool stuff in the podcast, so here are some links!

Get the Geez Magazine Jubilee issue here: https://geezmagazine.org/magazine/issue/geez-63
Find out more about the Committee for the abolition of illegitimate debts: https://www.cadtm.org/English
Find out more about the Jubilee USA Network: https://www.jubileeusa.org/
Find out more about Development and Peace: https://www.devp.org/en/

Magnificast Classic: Damn Daniel, back at it with a fresh essay on commodity fetishism. Feb 11, 2022

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Hey folks, our episode for this week is a bit late, so we're one from the archives that we know you'll like! In this episode, we talk with Daniel Saunders about his new essay on commodity fetishism and Christianity. You can find his essay here: https://danielsaunders.blog/2021/04/16/ideology-fetishism-apophaticism-marxist-criticism-and-christianity/ Intro Music by Amaryah Armstrong Outro music by Paul Robeson https://theillalogicalspoon.bandcamp.com/track/hoods-up-the-low-down-technified-blues *Support The Magnificast on Patreon* http://patreon.com/themagnificast *Get Magnificast Merch* https://www.redbubble.com

Revolutionary Forgiveness Feb 04, 2022

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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/

The Hermeneutics of Missing the Point. Jan 29, 2022

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Last week, we talked about the Beatitudes and how to take them seriously means you can't really be a capitalist. Yet, many right-wing Christians do read the Beatitudes and other admonitions of wealth and still find ways to be capitalists. In this episode, we talk about the hermeneutic process of ignoring wealth as a problem in the bible.

Here are the articles we dunked on:
https://www.acton.org/pub/religion-liberty/volume-20-number-34/views-wealth-bible-ancient-world
https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/kevin-deyoung/luke-evangelist-rich/
https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/jesus-loves-rich-people/

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