The Magnificast

The big news lately is that we're still ecologically doomed by capitalism. We got bummed about that so we decided to read Michael Löwy's book Ecosocialism to get some ideas about how to comport oursel...

13 Okt 201859min

Paul Virilio, a Christian anarchist, architect, urbanist, philosopher, and peace activist, died this year on September 10th. We're both really influenced by Virilio, and we've talked about him in the ...

5 Okt 20181h

Last week we heard an interview with Damian Costello and Basil Brave Heart on Nicholas Black Elk. This week we're talking to Damian himself about his book Black Elk: Colonialism And Lakota Catholicism...

29 Sep 201859min

Damian Costello, author of Black Elk: Colonialism and Lakota Catholicism, has gifted us with a neat interview with Lakota elder Basil Brave Heart. This episode features an interview with Basil over th...

21 Sep 201859min

this week you get two episodes! we put in a little bit of extra work to give you a double episode! A few episodes back, we talked with Jared Ware about Christians involved in prison abolition--we spec...

21 Sep 201832min

Do you like learning? Of course, you do! In this episode we talk through Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed. In this episode we get into some big ideas like pedagogy, revolutionary leadership, m...

14 Sep 20181h 9min

The usual deal on The Magnificast is to read a leftist Christian or a leftist who has something constructive to say about Christianity. This week, however, we're reading something really critical of C...

7 Sep 201848min

Following up on last week's episode about Angela Davis's book "Are Prisons Obsolete?" we decided to talk to Jared Ware, a freelance journalist and prison abolitionist covering the prison strike going ...

31 Aug 20181h 4min