The Magnificast

Every day you turn on the news, check out your twitter feed, or talk to your weird republican uncle and think to yourself, why are white evangelicals like this? We thought it was a good question, so we asked Tad Delay, author of the upcoming book Against: What Does the White Evangelical Want? what's going on with evangelicals. Delay gives us a lot of good insight into the interworking of Evangelic...

In this episode, Matt and Dean get into the discourse about Mike Pence and his enactment of Christianity. Using Marika Rose and Amaryah Armstrong's work we get to the bottom of this whole thing. SPOILER ALERT: Mike Pence is a Christian and he's also a turd.

On this episode of The Magnificast Matt and Dean answer more pressing questions from reddit and talk about the history of radical Catholic activism in Spain around 1968. intro music by Amaryah Armstrong outro music by theillogicalspoon

In this episode, we read Tom Cornell's article The Catholic Worker, Communism, and the Communist Party from American Catholic Studies. In the conversation, Matt and Dean do some big goofs about heaven, cussing, and talk about some niche history about the relationship between the Catholic Worker and the Communist Party USA. As it turns out, they're both good. Intro music by Amaryah Armstrong Outro...

This week's episode is another edition of Magnificast Extra Credit. The idea with these episodes is that they're a bit more produced and usually highlight a particular political or cultural movement. This episode features Erin Green talking about her work at Brave Commons and tries to get to the bottom of just what's up with LGBTQ students on Christian college campuses. Intro music by Amaryah Arms...

In this episode of The Magnificast, Matt and Dean talk with Marika Rose about her new book A Theology of Failure: Zizek Against Christian Innocence.(http://www.fordhampress.com/9780823284085/a-theology-of-failure) Intro music by Amaryah Armstrong Outro music by theillogicalspoon

In this episode, Matt and Dean talk about James Bentley's book Between Marx and Christ. The book has a lot going on, but the conversation focuses on Christoph Blumhardt, Karl Barth, and Dorothee Sölle. Intro music by Amaryah Armstrong Outro music by theillogicalspoon

Over the last few weeks, the Magnificast boys have been pumping out a side podcast on Patreon called "The Damnificast." The Damnificast is a podcast where Matt and Dean watch the show Damnation and talk about it. If you look back through the feed, you'll find the first episode. In this Episode, Matt and Dean talk with the Creator of Damnation, Tony Tost, and get into the background of the show and...

When the Berlin Wall fell and the USSR came to an end, many thought that was it for Communism and in turn liberation theology. Well, what did Liberation Theologians actually think about the fall of the Berlin Wall or the end of the Soviet Union? In this episode, Matt and Dean figure it out!

This week we're launching our patreon only podcast, The Damnificast! A podcast where we watch the TV show Damnation and talk about it! If you're into this podcast, you can subscribe to our patreon (patreon.com/themagnificast) at any level to get future episodes. New Episodes of the Damnificast will be posted on fridays on patreon only!

Earlier this year, Óscar Romero was canonized as a saint in the Catholic Church. His life and faith have been an important example to Christians on the left ever since his martyrdom. In this episode, we talk about the life and martyrdom of Saint Óscar Romero with Matt Eisenbrandt, author of The Assassination of a Saint. You can find his book here: http://www.assassinationofasaint.com/2017/01/02/24...

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 b...

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...

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...

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 enoug...

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

This week, we talk with Sargon Donabed, author of the book "Reforging a Forgotten History: Iraq and the Assyrians in the Twentieth Century." Sargon tells us some of the history of the Assyrian people, an indigenous people to West Asia/North Africa who are often overlooked and misunderstood. We also talk about how the Assyrians do and don't show up in the academy and in public discourse, what role...

This week on The Magnificast we celebrate Dean's birthday and talk about Ernesto Cardenal's recent rehabilitation. We get into what this means and learn some cool stuff about Cardenal's life and Solentiname! intro music by Amaryah Armstrong outro music by theillogicalspoon

We did it everyone. We made it to ~The Big Hundo~, 100 straight weeks in a row and the Magnificast train is still a-rollin'! To celebrate, we start by going back to reddit where we met and tackle some of the most pressing theology questions we could find. Then we think through some of the theology questions sent in by listeners and prove once and for all that we're no good at theology. Thanks for...

Infighting on the left is a huge problem. Marxists hate anarchists, anarchists hate Marxists, everyone hates primitivists, etc. In this episode, we'll take a look at a leftist who can add some nuance to all this infighting: Dorothy Day! In this episode, we'll listen to Dorothy Day's (of the Catholic Worker Movement) reflection on a trip she took to Cuba in 1962. Following her reflections, we'll se...