The Magnificast

Dean wrote a neat essay for Commonweal magazine, so we made a special podcast about it. Check out the essay here: https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/may-day-saint

In this episode we take a look at a chapter from Roland Boer's new book "Red Theology" that deals with Russian peasant socialism, Tolstoy, and everybody's favorite Bolshevik Boi V. I. Lenin himself! Music by Amaryah Armstrong and theillalogicalspoon.

A few weeks back we did a big roundup of articles about the Christian left, but because we believe in fair and balanced journalism, this week we're bringing you articles from the Christian right!

We've made it over 100 episodes without ever talking about China, but today's the day folks. We're talking about K. H. Ting, an incredible leader in China's Three-Self Patriotic Movement, a group of Protestants determined to figure out how help build socialism in China and disentangle Christianity from Western capitalism. Warning: we might appeal to much to your carnality in the beginning. Music by Amaryah Armstrong and theillalogicalspoon.

Isn't it weird that our podcast is about Christianity and the left, but it looks and sounds so different than the Christian left you might read about it major journalistic publications? We think so too! In this episode, we round up a few articles about the Christian left and try to get to the bottom of it. We also talk about the Justice League getting saved. Intro music by Amaryah Armstrong Outro music by theillogicalspoon

On this week's episode, we talk with Greg Hillis about Thomas Merton! You might know him as a best seller in the Christian life section at your local book store, but, as it turns out, he's good!

Just try to fail to see how great this episode is! This week, we're talking about what Althusser thinks about church! Spoiler: if you want to help the church then you'd better help the working class. We were inspired by the description of an upcoming retreat whose theme is "Another church is possible," organized by Friendly Fire, Christians for Socialism, and the Minneapolis Catholic Worker (https://friendlyfireretreat.herokuapp.com/index.html)! Speaking of, you should try to go, and if you can't, you should toss some cash toward the organizers to sponsor those who need assistance: https://chuffed.org/project/friendlyfire Music by Amaryah Armstrong and theillalogicalspoon.

Love Jesus? Hate prisons? Do we have a website for you! This week we're joined by Hannah Bowman, organizer of Christians for the Abolition of Prisons (https://christiansforabolition.org)! Hannah has been working with and for prisoners for years, and she thinks Christians should be on the front line of abolishing a system that Christians created. Also she's good at theology! If you didn't get enough of Hannah here, you can check out her interview on Theology and Socialism too: http://theologyandsocialism.libsyn.com/theology-and-prison-abolition-interview-with-hannah-bowman Music by Amaryah Armstrong and theillalogicalspoon

This week Matt and Dean come to you live (pre-recorded) from Toronto! This episode is another socialism 101 episode that focuses on primitive accumulation and Dave Ramsey's financial advice.

What's the deal with capitalism? And socialism...and communism... These are big terms that mean a lot of different things. We can't nail down every definition, but we try our best to sort these terms through with good old-fashioned Magnificast rambling. Also we brought some leftover Hundo reddit Qs. Is this witchraft, or sorcery, or whatever? Music by Amaryah Armstrong and theillalogicalspoon