Your Gentle Radical

Dorothy Day refused the easy divide between inner life and political action. This episode follows her through bohemian New York, loneliness, conversion, the Catholic Worker, and the hard discipline of solidarity. Her radicality did not come from moral superiority, but from honesty about failure, shame, suffering, and the need for community. Extras and transcript: yourgentleradical.space. Listen, s...

Radical theology doesn’t mean edgy—it means going to the root. Following Thomas J. J. Altizer, the “death of God” theologian, this episode moves through darkness and “pure grace” into a sharp political question: when God is imagined as a distant sovereign, religion becomes an apparatus of authority. When that God dies, authority doesn’t vanish—but it loses its sacred alibi. Extras and transcript:...

"Common Decency" explores George Orwell’s idea of “common decency” as the popular, pre-ideological sense of justice that resists domination. From Orwell through Michéa to Mauss, we follow how everyday solidarity and the gift (give–receive–reciprocate) can ground a socialism compatible with freedom and truth. We revisit 1984, the Spanish Civil War, and why top-down revolutions fueled by resentment...

"Radical, Not Extreme" introduces Your Gentle Radical, a monthly podcast about going to the root of things without becoming rigid or violent. It clarifies the difference between radicalism, extremism, and fundamentalism, tracing “radical” from Latin and 19th-century democratic reform to today’s misuses that blur dissent with extremism. The guiding question: How can we be radical and open at once—r...