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The Angelic End-times Ska Band Apr 07, 2026

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This week we're talking about Revelation 8:2-11:19; 15:5-16:21 and exploring the trumpets and bowls of God's wrath. In the episode, we talk about symbolism, political pessimism, left behind, and resentment.

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Music by Amaryah Armstrong and theillalogicalspoon

It's all horses Apr 01, 2026

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We're finally to the weird stuff in Revelation! This week, we've got creatures with weird faces, horsemen, cataclysms, and more!

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Becoming a spicy Christian Mar 24, 2026

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This week on the pod, we're reading Pablo Richard's commentary on John of Patmos' letters to the churches in revelation. We talk about symbolism, anti-semitism, the phrase "Luke-warm christian," and the anti-imperialist nature of within Revelation.

Read Pablo Richard's Apocalypse on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/apocalypsepeople0000rich

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The Beginning and End of Revelation Mar 17, 2026

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Folks, we're back this week reading the second chapter of Pablo Richard's book Apocalypse: A People's Commentary on the book of Revelation. In this episode, we talk about the verses the frame the book.

You can read the Richard's book yourself here: https://archive.org/details/apocalypsepeople0000rich

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Magnificast Classic: Toward a Philosophy of Photography Mar 10, 2026

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Hey Folks, we've got a classic episode for you this week, but next week we'll be back with some apocalyptic podcasting!

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.

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

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The imaginary apocalypse Mar 04, 2026

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This week, Dean's back from Assisi and has a bone update, we talk about the devil's super powers, and the imaginary geography of the apocalypse.

Read the articles we talked about in this episode:
https://jonathanlarsen.substack.com/p/us-troops-were-told-iran-war-is-for
https://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-modernities/christian-zionism-apocalyptic-gaza/

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Magnificast classic: The Dialogue between the Popes and Cuba Feb 24, 2026

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Hey folks, Dean is traveling for work this week and is going to see St. Francis' bones on display in Italy (this is not a joke), so this week we're reposting some classic Cuba content from 2022!

It's the last week of Advent! We made it. We're rounding out our series on Cuba with some extremely niche content about Papal visits and Cuba. This is some really in the weeds content, but it shows a real interesting interchange between the Cuban revolution and religion. There's a dialectic at play here that is worth paying attention to!

Here was the book we mentioned from Fidel on the podcast: https://archive.org/details/capitalismincris00cast/page/36/mode/2up
You can find all of JPII's addresses in Cuba here: https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/travels/1998/travels/documents/trav_cuba-1998.html

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Electricity and Cuba Feb 17, 2026

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This week on the show, we're talking about the ongoing crisis the United States is imposing on Cuba. The US has threatened tariffs on any country supplying Cuba with Oil. Listen in to our ep about the situation, electricity in Cuba, and Christian solidarity.

Get The Low-Carbon Contradiction here: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/the-low-carbon-contradiction/paper

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Apocalypse now Feb 10, 2026

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Over the last few weeks, we've been talking about Revelation and it's apocalypticism. But what is apocalypticism? In this episode we read Pablo Richard's Apocalypse and learn all about it!

Read Pablo Richard's Apocalypse on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/apocalypsepeople0000rich

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Revelation: justice and judgement Feb 03, 2026

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This week we read Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza's book Revelation: Justice and Judgement. Throughout the episode, we talk about liberation theology and the book of Revelation, exegesis, and ways of reading Revelation.

Also, please note that we recorded this via zoom and it gets crunchy sometimes. Sorry in advance.

Read the book we talked about here: https://archive.org/details/bookofrevelation0000schu

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