The Magnificast

This week on the Magnificast we're reading reddit questions, talking about demons, fallen angels, SSPX, and Pope Michael. Order our book https://themagnificast.wordpress.com/pre-order-now-enough-is-enough-degrowth-capitalism-and-liberation-theology/ Get our Winstanley Zine https://themagnificast.wordpress.com/zines/ Join our patreon http://patreon.com/themagnificast Music by Amaryah Armstrong and...

This week, we're chatting with Anupama Ranawana, author of the book Liberation for the Earth: Climate, Race and Cross from SCM press. In the episode, we talk about Tissa Balasuriya, global solidarity and Scottish politics.  Buy Anu's book: https://scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/9780334061267/liberation-for-the-earth Order our book https://themagnificast.wordpress.com/pre-order-now-enough-is-enough-d...

In this episode, for whatever reason, we decided to talk about upcoming Christian movie releases, fascism, competing nationalisms, Scottish football, and more!  Order our book https://themagnificast.wordpress.com/pre-order-now-enough-is-enough-degrowth-capitalism-and-liberation-theology/ Get our Winstanley Zine https://themagnificast.wordpress.com/zines/ Join our patreon http://patreon.com/themagn...

This week, we're LOCKING IN and answering some important and thoughtful questions from reddit. We also talk about a Scottish Island called Eigg, and a non-Scottish Island called Cuba.  Order our book https://themagnificast.wordpress.com/pre-order-now-enough-is-enough-degrowth-capitalism-and-liberation-theology/ Get our Winstanley Zine https://themagnificast.wordpress.com/zines/ Join our patreon ht...

This week we're talking about the new papal encyclical MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS. In the episode, we talk about where this falls within Catholic Social teaching, AI, the rhetoric of the encyclical, just war theory, and turning off email. Read the encyclical here: https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html Order our book https://themagnificast.wordpr...

This week on the show, we've got Dr. Nicolete Burbach to talk about her work on Catholicism and the trans experience. Throughout the episode, we talk about the popes, gender ideology, Christian unity and being trans within the church. Find all of the essays and books we talked about here: https://linktr.ee/nicoleteburbach Order our book https://themagnificast.wordpress.com/pre-order-now-enough-is-...

You're never going to believe this, but our book is published and out in the world. Listen along as we chat about why we wrote this book and take a peak behind the curtain of how we wrote it! Order our book https://themagnificast.wordpress.com/pre-order-now-enough-is-enough-degrowth-capitalism-and-liberation-theology/ Get our Winstanley Zine https://themagnificast.wordpress.com/zines/ Join our pat...

We've done it folks, We've finished Pablo Richard's book on Revelation. Tune in this week and listen to the exciting conclusion of Revelation! Here's the book about Zapatista women we mention: https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Compa%C3%B1eras.html?id=1gcDBAAAQBAJ&source=kp_book_description&redir_esc=y Read Pablo Richard's Apocalypse on archive.org : https://archive.org/details/apocaly...

We're back with that revelation's content that you crave! This week, we're talking about beasts, harlots, and more Read Pablo Richard's Apocalypse on archive.org : https://archive.org/details/apocalypsepeople0000rich Or get it from wipf and stock: https://wipfandstock.com/9781606081594/apocalypse/ Pre-order our book https://themagnificast.wordpress.com/pre-order-now-enough-is-enough-degrowth-capit...

This week we've got a war in heaven, the angel being defeated, beasts rising from the earth and the sea! You're not going to want to miss all of these biblical cryptids! In this episode, we're talking about Revelation 12:1-15:4, idolatry, and imperialism. Listen before the world ends!  Read Pablo Richard's Apocalypse on archive.org : https://archive.org/details/apocalypsepeople0000rich Or get it f...

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.  Read Pablo Richard's Apocalypse on archive.org : https://archive.org/details/apocalypsepeople0000rich Or get it from wipf and stock: https://wipfandstock.com/9781606081594/apocalypse/ Pre-orde...

We're finally to the weird stuff in Revelation! This week, we've got creatures with weird faces, horsemen, cataclysms, and more! Read Pablo Richard's Apocalypse on archive.org : https://archive.org/details/apocalypsepeople0000rich Or get it from wipf and stock: https://wipfandstock.com/9781606081594/apocalypse/ Pre-order our book https://themagnificast.wordpress.com/pre-order-now-enough-is-enough-...

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 or get it from wipf and stock: https://wipfandstoc...

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 Pre-order our book https://themagnificast.wordpress.com/pre-order-now-enough-is-enough-degrowth-ca...

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...

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/ Pre-order our book https://themagn...

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...

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 Get our zine about Christian solidari...

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 or get it from wipf and stock: https://wipfandstock.com/9781606081594/apocalypse/ Pre-order our book https://t...

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/bookofrevelation0000...

This week on the show we're joined by Mennonite pastor David C. L. Driedger to talk about his new book Nothing Will Save Us: A Theology of Immeasurable Life . We talk 2010s theology blogs, Canada, Thomas Muntzer, and how to deal with Christianity being so complicated.# Pre-order our book https://themagnificast.wordpress.com/pre-order-now-enough-is-enough-degrowth-capitalism-and-liberation-theology...

This week, we're locked in and taking some hot reddit questions about revelation. We also talk about The Traitors and the highland clearances, Venezuela, Baudrillardian imperialism, and more! Pre-order our book https://themagnificast.wordpress.com/pre-order-now-enough-is-enough-degrowth-capitalism-and-liberation-theology/ Get our Winstanley Zine https://themagnificast.wordpress.com/zines/ Join our...

It's 2026 and if you're watching the news, you can see that the United States is doing an apocalypse speedrun. Our new years resolution is to get really into the book of Revelation and maybe learn something about it. We'll get to the liberation theology contetn on Revelation later, but for now we're easing our way in.  Here's Timothy Beal's The Book of Revelation: a Biography: https://press.prince...

The new year is off to a rough start! Check out this extremely old, ancient even, episode we did George Ciccariello-Maher. We'll be back next week with new content!  In this episode, Dean and Matt interview George Ciccariello-Maher about Chavismo, Venezuela, dual power, the communes, Maduro and the ways Christianity might have informed Hugo Chavez' political imagination.

Need some context for the ongoing situation in Venezuela? listen to this episode with Jim Hodgson when the US staged a coup back in 2019 In light of the ongoing coup in Venezuela, this week Matt and Dean talk with Jim Hodgson. Hodgson is the Program Coordinator for Latin America and the Caribbean for the United Church of Canada and was an observer of the recent elections in Venezuela. Intro Music...