The Pope is opening the magic doors for the year of Jubilee! In this episode, we're talking about the 2025 year of Jubilee in the Catholic church. Of course, we're talking about the weird Catholic stuff in this episode, but we're also talking about the material side of the Jubilee and the campaign to forgive and restructure debt throughout the worl…

This week, we chat with, friend of the pod and Sojourners editor, Josiah Daniels about his recent trip to Palestine with Sabeel. Listen in as we talk about Palestinian resistance, liberation theology, and what it's like to be an American in Palestine at this moment in history. Read Josiah's piece about his trip in Sojourners. Intro Music by Amaryah…

The last few weeks have been an advent calendar of wild stuff happening. This week, we're reflecting on the latest bit of news and discourse about the murder of the United Healthcare CEO and talking about how liberation theology helps us orient ourselves stopping and organizing against social murder. Intro Music by Amaryah Armstrong Outro music by …

The rules-based international order is rigged in favor or the United States and other global north countries and it's only going to get worse. In this episode, we talk about the failures of liberalism and multilateralism during the Biden presidency and talk about the future of what solidarity looks like under new right-wing governments. In this epi…

Folks, we're back. As a disclaimer, the first 6 or so minutes of the podcast is Dean giving an update on his second trip to the bone church in Rome. So, if you're not an enjoyer of bones and crypts smash that fast forward button! After that we talk about John Pavlovitz, Christianity, liberalism, and what it is liberals even want out of their politi…

While Dean is traveling, enjoy this episode from 2021! When it comes to Christianity and politics everyone loves to talk about the "political imaginary." This week we're going to talk through the political imaginary and what it's all about! To do that, we read a really fascinating article called Bhima Koregaon and the “Powers of the Other Shore by …

Folks, the US election just wrapped and we're here to report that we've got four more years of crab season. There's no escaping it! In this episode, we snap our claws, blow some bubbles, and scuttle around while we chat about the election results and all of the stuff we're not looking forward to. Intro Music by Amaryah Armstrong Outro music by thei…

It's Election Day, so we're giving you an old episode. We hope everyone has fun out there. Liberation theology is cool! But, what about theology done from inside revolutionary contexts like Cuba? This week we're discussing Cuban theologian Sergio Arce Martinez and his book The Church and Socialism. You can check out his book here on archive.org. Wh…

This week on the pod, we're remembering Liberation Theologian, Gustavo Gutiérrez, by chatting about his life and his work. In the episode, we talk about his impact on Catholicism and just why he was controversial. Then, we talk about Gutiérrez' thoughts on poverty and solidarity Intro Music by Amaryah Armstrong Outro music by theillogicalspoon http…

Matt and Dean spent some time in Rome last week and this week we're reflecting on our trip to the Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Capuchins, a church with a crypt full of the skeletons of 3,000+ Capuchin monks in it. In the episode we reflect on the bones, death, Jean Bone-drillard, how weird tourism is, and what's going on in the gift s…

This past week, friend of the pod, Greg Hillis passed away. Greg was a great scholar and wrote a fantastic book on Thomas Merton called Man of Dialogue: Thomas Merton's Catholic Vision. Back in 2019 we talked with him about his book. Tune in and celebrate Greg with us. You can get Greg's book here: https://litpress.org/Products/8460/Man-of-Dialogue…

This week, Matt and Dean are geographically together in Scotland. To mark the occasion, they finally get to the bottom of what happens to your body when you're resurrected. Get excited to find out what happens. Intro Music by Amaryah Armstrong Outro music by theillogicalspoon https://theillalogicalspoon.bandcamp.com/track/hoods-up-the-low-down-tech…

This week, Dean is preparing for his big European adventure, so we're taking it easy with another episode of the Magnificast Lockin. If you don't know, the magnificast lockin takes place in an alternate reality, where we're your youth pastors and we're answering pressing spiritual questions. We also talk a bit about climate change and the ghosts of…

It's crab season, folks. We're here giving your our crabbiest takes about Christians for Kamala and the ways evangelicals and mainline Christians are engaging with the presidential election. Intro Music by Amaryah Armstrong Outro music by theillogicalspoon https://theillalogicalspoon.bandcamp.com/track/hoods-up-the-low-down-technified-blues *Suppor…

Dean is traveling this week, so here's one more from the archive. Dean should be back next week and we'll get things back on track. Since we talked with Richard Gilman-Opalsky a few weeks ago, we've focused a bit on the idea of morality and communism as a relationship between people. To keep riding that theme, we talked with Taylor Genovese about h…

Matt and Dean are traveling this week, so here's another one from the archives! It's time for the second installment of our Monopoly Capital series. In this episode, we talk about the ways monopoly capital reabsorbs all of the surplus it produces in some incredibly frustrating ways! Here's the MR article we mentioned in the show: https://monthlyrev…

Dean and Matt are traveling this week, so in lieu of a new episode, here's an older episode where we, once again, learn basic economics. Karl Marx is great, but a few things have changed since he wrote capital. Instead of corporations competing against one another, global corporations have gained monopoly power and are able to set prices with littl…

In this episode, we're talking about capitalist growth again and why it's fundamental to capitalism and why it doesn't help anyone but the moth wealthy! Here's the book we were talking about throughout the episode:What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism: A Citizen’s Guide to Capitalism and the Environment by Fred Magdoff and John…

Do you like stories about people who fearlessly speak truth to power? Of course you do. This week, Matt and Dean talk to Marcus Rediker about his book The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist. You can get the book here: https://bookshop.org/books/the-fearless-benjamin-lay-the-quaker-dwarf-who-becam…

This week we're joined by Tad Delay to talk about his new book The Future of Denial: The Ideologies of Climate Change. In the episode, we talk with Tad about climate denial, liberalism, psychoanalysis, and why there's still hope! You can find Tad's book on Verso. Intro Music by Amaryah Armstrong Outro music by theillogicalspoon https://theillalogic…

This week we're joined by Andrew Krinks to talk about his new book White Property, Black Tresspass: Racial Capitalism and the Religious Function of Mass Criminalization. It's a really cool book that explores the links between a carceral society, religion, and capitalism. You can preorder Andrew's book from NYU Press. Use NYUAU30 at checkout for 30%…

Welcome to Magnificast classic™ where we give you an old episode because we were traveling or something. Last week we chatted about the IMF and development. Here's an older episode where we discuss something similar. Within the orbit of liberation, there's a closely related term that we've never really talked about on the podcast before: developmen…

We all know the IMF and the World Bank are evil and stupid organizations, but have you ever wondered how they work? In this episode, we get into the weeds about the IMF and World Bank with the help of Éric Toussaint's book, Debt, the IMF, and the World Bank: Sixty Questions, Sixty Answers. Intro Music by Amaryah Armstrong Outro music by theillogica…

This week on the show, we're talking about recent political turmoil, psychoanalysis, and why evangelicals do the things they do. Support Jeremy, from theillogicalspoon: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-jeremys-journey-to-recovery?attribution_id=sl:c5d42218-652b-43c2-9e7b-8138f758f1bb&lang=en_US&utm_campaign=fp_sharesheet&utm_medium=customer&utm_s…

This week we're joined by Lydia Wylie-Kellermann, author of the recently published book: This Sweet Earth: Walking with Our Children in the Age of Climate Collapse. It's a great book about climate change, kids, and community. Get it now at the link below! https://www.broadleafbooks.com/store/product/9781506495125/This-Sweet-Earth…