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With the recent passing of Raoul Vaneigem, we're spending this episode talking about his book the Movement of the Free Spirit. It's a weird book about a heretical trend in medieval Christianity that pointed people toward freedom rather than repression. But, to be honest, it's a pretty mixed bag!

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In this episode, we're locking in, talking about our favourite miracles, the devil and his body, climate denial, the North Sea, and fascists.

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In a world where the IMF has said the entire stock of whales are worth 1 trillion dollars and biological offsets equivocate one threatened environment for another, Christianity can help us think of life as worthless and beyond value altogether.

We've got a new episode where we're talking about the valuation of life and how we can reframe the way we think about value altogether. To get there, we're chatting through a big philosophical idea about the valuation of life and ecology. In the episode we talk about Marika Rose's Theology for the End of the World, Phillippe...

This week on the Magnificast we're reading reddit questions, talking about demons, fallen angels, SSPX, and Pope Michael.

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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. 

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In this episode, for whatever reason, we decided to talk about upcoming Christian movie releases, fascism, competing nationalisms, Scottish football, and more! 

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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. 

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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

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We're back with that revelation's content that you crave! This week, we're talking about beasts, harlots, and more

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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! 

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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. 

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We're finally to the weird stuff in Revelation! This week, we've got creatures with weird faces, horsemen, cataclysms, and more!

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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.

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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

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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 of Photography and also some ideas about how it relates to the photographs of Mev Puleo, a photographer who was involved in liberation theology.

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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.

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https://jonathanlarsen.substack.com/p/us-troops-were-told-iran-war-is-for
https://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-modernities/christian-zionism-apocalyptic-gaza/

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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 interesting interchange between the Cuban revolution and religion. There's a dialectic at play here that is worth paying attention to! 

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.#

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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!

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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.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691145839/the-book-of-revelation

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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.

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This week, on the pod, we have Jon from the Christianity on the Spectrum podcast to talk about his research on ASD and Christianity, deconstruction, RFK Jr and the autism wars. Lots of great stuff in this episode!

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It's almost Christmas. Deck the halls, ask Mary if she knew, and get ready to drink the water from Santa's bones! We're still deep in the Christmas spirit. In this episdoe, we're answering reddit questions and talking about relics. We'll be back with your normal Magnificast content next week.

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It's the advent season, but we're ready for Christmas! In this episode, we talk through some reddit questions, theorize heaven, talk about unions, and dive into the Santa lore.

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We're back with a lock-in episode where we're answering reddit questions and talking about current events! 

Here are the links we talked about on the pod
Boff blog - https://leonardoboff.org/2025/12/06/cose-e-cosa-non-e-lamazzonia/
SATAN - https://srm360.org/outdoor-experiments/satan/
I was arrested outside of an ICE facility we need to close - https://sojo.net/articles/opinion/i-was-arrested-outside-ice-facility-we-need-shut-down
Vatican commission on women deacons - https://www.ncronline.org/vatican/vatican-commission-votes-against-ordaining-female-deacons

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Dean is back from COP30 and he's going to tell you all about it. Learn what was accomplished, what wasn't, and what Christians were doing down in Brazil!

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Dean's away at COP, so it's time to talk about protestantism. This week, on the pod, we've got William Gibson to talk about the the World Communion of Reformed Churches, Christian unity, union organizing, anti-fascism, and more!

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Dean is away at COP, so you're getting a classic ep this week. But, don't worry! we'll have something new next week. 
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Folks, we’re back at it. Last week, we refreshed our memories about the Pope’s climate encyclical Laudato Si and how it connected with things like degrowth and dependency theory. But this week, we’re back with some breaking news. The Vatican has released Francis’ most recent apostolic exhortation Laudate Deum, and we will talk through it.

Last time, we pulled out some of Francis’ thoughts around dependency and the economy, and in this...

It's that time of the year again, folks. Halloween is over, Christmas hasn't yet begun, it's time for COP. The 30th conference of parties is about to kick off in Brazil. Dean is heading down there to check it out, but for now, we're going to talk about what to expect.

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There's a new papal exhortation out there folks: Dilexi Te or "I have loved you" and you better believe we're talking about it! In this episode, we talk about the big ideas behind Pope Leo's first exhortation and how it relates to liberation theology.

Read Dilexi Te here: http://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/apost_exhortations/documents/20251004-dilexi-te.html
See the coverage of Dilexi Te here: https://newrepublic.com/article/201602/pope-leo-apostolic-exhortation-dilexi-te-jd-vance

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Folks, we're locked in, answering the internet's most pressing Christian questions and talking about GAFCON and Canadian politics. 

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Life has once again gotten in the way of the pod, but we've got a good classic episode for you! 

Some of our best episodes have been talking about solidarity with Jim Hodgson, well this time around we've got one of Jim's incredible colleagues, Patti Talbot, to talk about peace and solidarity movements that focus on the Korean Peninsula. Northeast Asia is a complicated place, but this interview gives some good handles for thinking about a very complex situation! 

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This week we've got reddit questions, new events, and old events.

Here are the things we talked about in this episode!
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/05/archbishop-of-canterbury-sarah-mullally-change
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Geddes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gianfranco_Sanguinetti

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