The Magnificast

In this episode, we're talking about the shortcomings of substitutionary atonement and Ignacio Ellacuria's The Crucified People. Substitutionary Atonement is a weird idea that gets Christians into all...

26 Mar 202251min

Over the last few weeks, we've been talking about the big themes of lent. So far, we've talked about fasting & temptation. This time, however, we're talking about almsgiving and charity. You're going ...

20 Mar 202249min

We're into week 2 of our Lent theme and this time we're talking about temptation! We're reading Luke 4:1-13 and talking through the three temptations the devil brings to Jesus in the desert. To back u...

12 Mar 20221h

Lent is a time of fasting that gets co-opted by capitalism in all kinds of very gross ways and that sucks. But, what might fasting look like as a political idea? We might work this out by thinking abo...

4 Mar 202252min

This week, we have no choice, but to weigh in on what's happening with Russia and Ukraine. A lot of people have particularly hot takes about this chapter in geopolitics, and so do we: war is bad, actu...

26 Feb 20221h 12min

You know we love books, so this week we're reading Leonardo Boff's Cry of the Earth, Cry of the Poor and talking about liberation theology, ecology, the poor as a protagonist class, and more! Intro Mu...

18 Feb 202257min

This week on the podcast we're continuing our theme of talking about money and economics in the context of the Bible. This time, we're talking about Jubilee and what it means to do that work in 2022! ...

13 Feb 202256min

Hey folks, our episode for this week is a bit late, so we're one from the archives that we know you'll like! In this episode, we talk with Daniel Saunders about his new essay on commodity fetishism ...

11 Feb 20221h 5min