The Anarchodox Podcast

As we slide into the end of our third season, we have a treat for all of you. On the eve of the 250th anniversary of the founding of this uniquely diabolical country known as the United States, we invited on some fine folks who have inspired us for quite some time for an Ecumenical Council of Christian Leftists: the fine folks from Red Star Ministry. Can anarchists and Maoists get along? (Yes, qui...

This week on Anarchodox: -The FTC is suing WPATH in order to get rid of trans healthcare -Keir Starmer resigns as UK Prime Minister -Democratic Socialists sweep the New York Primaries Deep Dive: Stanley Hauerwas If you want to support us, join our Patreon! patreon.com/TheAnarchodoxPodcast Email us at: anarchodoxpodcast@gmail.com BlueSky: @anarchodoxpod.bsky.social Cohosts: Bill Eldridge (he/him) B...

This week on Anarchodox: -The Southern Baptist Convention rejects amnesty for the undocumented, as well as women preachers -The Presbyterian Church (USA) contemplates polyamory -The Roman Catholic Church dedicates America's 250th anniversary to the Sacred Heart -There's an energy drink named after the name of the Living LORD -Deep Dive: John Howard Yoder If you want to support us, join our...

This week on Anarchodox: -The government is trying to remove funding from all institutions that don't deny "gender ideology" -America is growing less tolerant of all LGBTQ+ people -US Military removes 175 religions from its official list, down to a mere 31; Christians ought to know better Deep Dive: Jacques Ellul If you want to support us, join our Patreon! patreon.com/TheAnarchodoxP...

This week on Anarchodox: -Hunger strike and protest outside of Delaney Detention Center in NJ erupts in chaos -IT'S PRIDE, EVERYBODY -UK Supreme Court rolls back human rights for disabled people Deep Dive: Karl Barth Article mentioned about Sister Susan in NJ: https://religionnews.com/2026/05/27/delaney-hall-sister-susan-radical-hospitality/ If you want to support us, join our Patreon! patreon...

This week on Anarchodox: -The US launches "self-defensive strikes" on Iran -Someone tried to kill the president...again -Pope Leo XIV released "Magnifica Humanitas," challenging the AI oligarchy to a battle of ethics -Deep Dive: John Calvin

This week on Anarchodox: -The President went to China, thoroughly embarrassing us all -Rededicate 250 event takes over DC, and we have some THOUGHTS Deep Dive: The (Mis)trial of Reinhold Niebuhr If you want to support us, join our Patreon! patreon.com/TheAnarchodoxPodcast Email us at: anarchodoxpodcast@gmail.com BlueSky: @anarchodoxpod.bsky.social Cohosts: Bill Eldridge (he/him) BlueSky:@bill-eld....

This week on Anarchodox: -Supreme Court guts the Voting Rights Act of 1965 -New counter-terrorism strategy deems antifascists, anarchists, and radical transgenderism as a threat to national security -Methodist megachurch pastor Adam Hamilton runs for Senate -Deep dive: Julian of Norwich If you want to support us, join our Patreon! patreon.com/TheAnarchodoxPodcast Email us at: anarchodoxpodcast@gma...

There is a new trend among young men, and it has a lot of unexamined aspects that frankly terrify Bill and Mae, so they lit the beacons and summoned friend of the show and fellow anarchist theologian Billie Hoard to tackle the issue. Behind some bizarre jargon, baffling funhouse mirror ideology, and viral characters lies a movement that has its roots in some of the oldest kinds of disordered think...

This week on Anarchodox: -Trump almost got shot again, and nobody cares -Supreme Court guts the Voting Rights Act -Archbishop Sarah Mullally visits Pope Leo -Texas Tech bans LGBTQ+ research and curriculum -Deep Dive: Thomas Cranmer If you want to support us, join our Patreon! patreon.com/TheAnarchodoxPodcast Email us at: anarchodoxpodcast@gmail.com BlueSky: @anarchodoxpod.bsky.social Cohosts: Bill...

This week on Anarchodox: -Palantir releases the most fascist manifesto ever written, which spurs us on to... -Deep Dive: Peter Thiel It's a different kind of episode this week, folks. Thiel demands our attention because he is just that dangerous. Is he possessed? Or did he dance at the devil's sabbath willingly? You decide! The manifesto in question: https://x.com/PalantirTech/status/20455...

FULL EPISODE EXCLUSIVE TO PATREON! This week on Anarchodox: -Details about the Dilley Family Immigration Detention Center emerge -The President picks a fight with the Pope -AI company wants to sell you the ability to talk to Jesus for $1.99 per minute Deep Dive: The Trial of Thomas Aquinas RAICES report on the Dilley facility: https://humanrightsfirst.org/library/a-new-era-of-ice-family-prisons/ I...

This week on Anarchodox: -We nerd out about how cool the Artemis II mission is for a bit -The Supreme Court reverses a ban on conversion therapy -Local mad emperor issues doomsday proclamation -Deep Dive: Conrad Noel, the Red Vicar of Thaxted Conrad Noel's "Vision of the Church": https://web.archive.org/web/20110807153345/http://www.anglocatholicsocialism.org/vision.html If you want...

We took one look at the abyss this week and both, simultaneously, said: "Nope. No thanks." So instead we are stepping away from business as usual and looking towards the cross. It's our favorite week of the year, being high church Episcopalian theologians, and so, you know. We needed to just dwell on the things about Holy Week that mean the most to us. If you want to support us, join...

This week on Anarchodox: -Prep for Holy Week -Reckoning with the revelations that Cesar Chavez is an abuser -Tennessee wants to put trans people on a public list -ICE is in airports now, because?? -Deep Dive: Thomas Merton If you want to support us, join our Patreon! patreon.com/TheAnarchodoxPodcast Email us at: anarchodoxpodcast@gmail.com BlueSky: @anarchodoxpod.bsky.social Cohosts: Bill Eldridge...

Okay, we needed another breather. Did you? Sure you did. The Abyss keeps on being abyssal, and so we need more lighthearted to break up the misery. Therefore, we asked on our friend Viktor, the AnarchoTolkienist, to come back to the show and talk about our favorite Oxford professor, JRR Tolkein! We go into the life and the theology of the professor, and really dig into the meat of his work. If you...

This week on Anarchodox: -New supreme leader of Iran named, vows vengeance -Rhode Island has a Roman Catholic sex abuse problem -Anti-gay forces start a new campaign to end gay marriage -The future of the Episcopal church?? -Deep Dive: Dorothy L. Sayers If you want to support us, join our Patreon! patreon.com/TheAnarchodoxPodcast Email us at: anarchodoxpodcast@gmail.com BlueSky: @anarchodoxpod.bsk...

This week on Anarchodox: -They started another war over the weekend. Yes, another one. -The State of the Union is very handsome, so strong, and the people are tired of winning -Kansas invalidates trans people's ID's overnight -Children's Hospital named after Dolly Parton -Deep Dive: Fred Rogers For the Fred Rogers Day materials: https://pcusa.org/about-pcusa/agencies-entities/interim-u...

From the Narnia series, the Space Trilogy, and his many books on theology, C.S. Lewis is a much beloved figure in modern Christianity, and frankly we just needed to talk about him. To do that, we brought on a couple of fantastic guests. Billie Hoard is a friend of the show, academic, and Lewis aficionado. Kat Coffin is a C.S. Lewis scholar, a novelist, and a playwright. Together, we have just a ro...

This week on Anarchodox: -DHS is shut down, no money; let's just abolish it! -RIP Rev. Jesse Jackson -Apparently the anti-Pope Francis conservative Catholics had ties to Epstein?? -Pope Leo IX has more good things to say on the use of AI -Deep Dive: Pauli Murray If you want to support us, join our Patreon! patreon.com/TheAnarchodoxPodcast Email us at: anarchodoxpodcast@gmail.com BlueSky: @anar...

This week on Anarchodox: -Despite the news media's lack of focus, Minneapolis is still under siege -Conditions for those incarcerated by the DHS are dire, nay, apocalyptic -Pride flag removed from Stonewall -Memorial honoring Absalom Jones and Richard Allen removed Deep Dive: James Cone

This week on Anarchodox: -ICE shoots teargas at protesters in Portland, OR -DHS to remove 700 agents from Minnesota, only if they stop resisting -Washington Post fires a third of their staff -Kennedy Center shuts down for 2 years -The Pope is in a pickle with the Society of St. Pius X -Deep Dive: Dietrich Bonhoeffer If you want to support us, join our Patreon! patreon.com/TheAnarchodoxPodcast Emai...

This week on Anarchodox: -The Execution of Alex Pretti -Mass mutual aid networks form in Minneapolis -Hundreds of clergy descend upon Minnesota to support the people there -IT'S COLD OUTSIDE -Sarah Mulally officially becomes the new Archbishop of Canterbury -Deep Dive: Martin Luther If you want to support us, join our Patreon! patreon.com/TheAnarchodoxPodcast BlueSky: @anarchodoxpod.bsky.socia...

This week on Anarchodox: -Donald Trump threatens world war over Greenland, not getting the Nobel Peace Prize -Trump also straight up sounds like a mafioso at Davos -The protest at Cities Church was the only morally justifiable Christian action -Deep Dive: The Wesley Brothers If you want to support us, join our Patreon! patreon.com/TheAnarchodoxPodcast BlueSky: @anarchodoxpod.bsky.social Cohosts: B...

This week on Anarchodox: -Minneapolis is under siege after the martyrdom of Renee Nicole Good -The burning of a synagogue in Mississippi signals the worsening of antisemitism -Supreme Court hears testimony regarding trans women in sports -Theology Bites: The Trial of St. Augustine of Hippo If you want to support us, join our Patreon! patreon.com/TheAnarchodoxPodcast BlueSky: @anarchodoxpod.bsky.so...