If you're wondering why Christians might want to take class and labor more seriously, I think you'll like Joerg Rieger! We talk two different kinds of faith, labor and power in the Gospels, class struggle and social justice, liberal Christianity, and discipleship as organizing. He also just launched a new Doctoral program for folks who want to think about economics and ecology from a religious perspective at Vanderbilt University called The Wendland-Cook Program on Religion and Justice. You can find the new program here: https://www.religionandjustice.org/. Check out all of Rieger's work here: https://joergrieger.com/. And here are links to two of the books we mention in our convo: https://www.powells.com/book/jesus-vs-caesar-9781501842672 and https://www.powells.com/book/-9780827238589. Rieger's twitter: @joerg_rieger ~ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/faithandcapital ~ Twitter: https://twitter.com/FaithAndCapital ~ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/faithandcapital/ ~ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/faithandcapital/ ~ Email: faithandcapital@gmail.com ~ Music by Cotter KoopmanSupport the show

In part 2 of our series on King, guest David Justice and I discuss his Triple Evils of racism, poverty, and militarism. Then we talk about King as a closeted Democratic Socialist. We look at how profoundly he had been rooted in the Black Social Gospel and how he had been shaped by socialist theory, friends, and mentors. Next we read through his sermon, "Can A Christian Be A Communist?" as we look at King's take on Marx and communism. And finally, we end with a glimpse at his relation to labor in the final days of his life. David Justice's twitter: @DavidtheJust ~ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/faithandcapital ~ Twitter: https://twitter.com/FaithAndCapital ~ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/faithandcapital/ ~ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/faithandcapital/ ~ Email: faithandcapital@gmail.com ~ Music by Cotter KoopmanSupport the show

It's that time of year folks, when the words, life, and work of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. are used for everything from selling trucks, to shaming poor people for being irresponsible, to emboldening individuals to make a post about justice on social media. Might there be more to the life, theology, and work of King? In this first episode of a two part series, student of the life and faith of King, David Justice, and I will reflect on a variety of ways King is appropriated for the purposes of reproducing the status quo. Then we will take a look at his understanding of God, the ins and outs of the Beloved Community, and the ways in which he thought we ought to pursue this community of love! David Justice's twitter: @DavidtheJust ~ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/faithandcapital ~ Twitter: https://twitter.com/FaithAndCapital ~ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/faithandcapital/ ~ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/faithandcapital/ ~ Email: faithandcapital@gmail.com ~ Music by Cotter KoopmanSupport the show

Kicking off the year 2020 talking with Pastor Andrew Wilkes of the Brooklyn, NY, Double Love Experience church. We discuss things like the insufficiency of Christian commitments to love and social justice without a critical analysis of capitalism; equality of opportunity in relation to equality of access; the role of the strike as a partner to the ballot box; identity politics; and potential ways Christian communities might pursue material and systemic transformation of their communities and the world at large. Rev. Wilkes twitter: https://twitter.com/AndrewJWilkes ~ Double Love Experience website: https://www.doubleloveexperience.org/ ~ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/faithandcapital ~ Twitter: https://twitter.com/FaithAndCapital ~ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/faithandcapital/ ~ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/faithandcapital/ ~ Email: faithandcapital@gmail.com ~ Music by Cotter KoopmanSupport the show

What common interests might faith and labor groups share? How might they partner with one another for realizing justice in the world? What's a worker cooperative and how does it differ from the capitalist workplace? All this and a whole lot of justice as we talk with Rosemarie Henkel-Rieger and Robert "Benny" Overton, co-directors of the South East Center for Cooperative Development in Nashville, Tennessee. Find their work and mission here: https://www.co-opsnow.org/ ~ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/faithandcapital ~ Twitter: https://twitter.com/FaithAndCapital ~ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/faithandcapital/ ~ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/faithandcapital/ ~ Email: faithandcapital@gmail.com ~ Music by Cotter KoopmanSupport the show

Why can't rainbow capitalism be the answer to gender and sexual liberation? What role does class and labor play in the Model Minority Myth imposed upon Asian-Americans? Why might Christian communities consider class struggle an important means of realizing liberation for the masses? Sarah Ngu guides us through these tough questions, while suggesting the need for class struggle. ~ Sarah's Twitter: @sarahngu ~ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/faithandcapital ~ Twitter: https://twitter.com/FaithAndCapital ~ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/faithandcapital/ ~ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/faithandcapital/ ~ Email: faithandcapital@gmail.com ~ Music by Cotter KoopmanSupport the show

Why is capitalism harming, violating, killing, the beloved creation? How might capital and the God of the first creation story value the Earth, human and nonhuman creatures, and the entirety of the cosmos differently? What tensions does this create? If we hope to curb climate disaster, we will have to replace capitalism with a system that sees the goodness of creation.~ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/faithandcapital ~ Twitter: https://twitter.com/FaithAndCapital ~ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/faithandcapital/ ~ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/faithandcapital/ ~ Email: faithandcapital@gmail.com ~ Music by Cotter KoopmanSupport the show

In 2019, Puerto Rico remains a colony of the US. What does imperialism, colonialism, and capitalism have to do with each other? Why do we deny the colonial relationship between the US and Puerto Rico? Andrew Mercado-Vazquez from the Puerto Rico Forward podcast of the Democracy At Work network speaks to these questions and more! ~ Find Andrew Mercado-Vazquez on twitter: @ARBMV ~ and check out his podcast on the status of Puerto Rico: puertoricoforward.com~ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/faithandcapital ~ Twitter: https://twitter.com/FaithAndCapital ~ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/faithandcapital/ ~ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/faithandcapital/ ~ Email: faithandcapital@gmail.com ~ Music by Cotter KoopmanSupport the show

For most of us, housing is primarily used as a home. But for financial and landlord capitalists, housing is, first and foremost, an instrument for extracting wealth and maximizing profits. The valuing of housing as a means for profit-maximization is contradictory to the valuing of housing as home, and increasingly under capitalism, financial capital has hyper-commodified this most basic human necessity. Ismaail Qaiyim, a participant in Charlotte, North Carolina's Housing Justice Coalition, joins me in a conversation on housing under capitalism and the various roles that race plays in the unequal distribution of housing in the US.~ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/faithandcapital ~ Twitter: https://twitter.com/FaithAndCapital ~ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/faithandcapital/ ~ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/faithandcapital/ ~ Email: faithandcapital@gmail.com ~ Music by Cotter KoopmanSupport the show

Debt cancellation, the freeing of slaves, and the redistribution of land, OH MY! What does your mortgage, your car loan, your credit card debt, your school loans, your medical debt, and austerity measures imposed upon by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have to do with Jesus's ministry and the witness of the early church? Contrary to what mainstream Christianity would have us believe, Christian faith doesn't have to be neoliberal and it doesn't have to be anti-debtor. In this episode we talk everything from the Jubilee and Sabbatical laws to what debt is for the working class to the inequality of power that defines the creditor-debtor relation.~ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/faithandcapital ~ Twitter: https://twitter.com/FaithAndCapital ~ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/faithandcapital/ ~ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/faithandcapital/ ~ Email: faithandcapital@gmail.com ~ Music by Cotter KoopmanSupport the show