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The Magnificast
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A weekly podcast about Christianity and leftist politics. The Magnificast is hosted by Dean Dettloff and Matt Bernico. Each week's episode focuses on a unique or under-realized aspect of territory between Christianity and politics that no one taught you about in sunday school.
Episodes
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Stop slandering the horses 🐎 🐎 🐎 🐎
This week, we're chatting about the horseman AND the horses of the apocalypse and the dragon with ch 3-4 of Allan Boesak's Comfort and protest : reflections on the Apocalypse of John of Patmos. Order our book...
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Scrolls!
We're back to the Scrolls in revelation with ch 2 of Allan Boesak's Comfort and protest : reflections on the Apocalypse of John of Patmos. Order our book https://themagnificast.wordpress.com/pre-order-now-enough-is-enough-degrowth-capitalism-and-liberation-theology/ Get our Winstanley Zine...
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Peace and revolt
We're back with chapter 1 of Allan Boesak's Comfort and protest : reflections on the Apocalypse of John of Patmos. In the episode, we talk about revolt, state oppression, and peace. Order our book...
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All God's Truths, All God's Goofs
We're locking in this week to talk about humour in the bible, how tall the giants in the bible were, God watching deadpool and, of course, our favourite economic paradoxes. Order our book...
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It's giving apocalypse
This week on the pod, we're pausing our Revelation reading plan for some current revelatory news, we're surpassing 1.5C of warming! Read the UN EP report with us. Order our book https://themagnificast.wordpress.com/pre-order-now-enough-is-enough-degrowth-capitalism-and-liberation-theology/ Get…
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Comfort and Protest
We're back on our apocalyptic kick with Allan Boesak's Comfort and protest : reflections on the Apocalypse of John of Patmos. In the episode, we talk about Boesak's life, South African apartheid, Christianity and the state, and the specicifity of revelation to oppressed communities. Order our…
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Crossover Episode: The Regrettable Century talks Enough Is Enough
You want more book content? Hopefully you said yes because that's what this is. Thanks to the good folks at The Regrettable Century for a fun chat. Be sure to check out the rest of their episodes!
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Washingteen II
This episode, has got it all: reddit questions, a Young Washington review, Pope hat news, and Christians organising against green capitalism. Order our book https://themagnificast.wordpress.com/pre-order-now-enough-is-enough-degrowth-capitalism-and-liberation-theology/ Get our Winstanley Zine...
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That free spirit keeps on moving
This week, we're exploring Marguerite Porete a bit further with Simon Critchley's book Faith of the Faithless. In the episode, we dive deeper into Porete and how she thinks you can align your soul with God and become free. We talk about what this means for political theology and what we think…
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The Movement of the Free Spirit
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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Magnificast Lock In: Miraculous fish supper
In this episode, we're locking in, talking about our favourite miracles, the devil and his body, climate denial, the North Sea, and fascists. Order our book https://themagnificast.wordpress.com/pre-order-now-enough-is-enough-degrowth-capitalism-and-liberation-theology/ Get our Winstanley Zine...
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Life is useless
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…
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Pope news: SSPX
This week on the Magnificast we're reading reddit questions, talking about demons, fallen angels, SSPX, and Pope Michael. Order our book https://themagnificast.wordpress.com/pre-order-now-enough-is-enough-degrowth-capitalism-and-liberation-theology/ Get our Winstanley Zine...
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Liberation for the Earth with Anupama Ranawana
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. Buy Anu's book:...
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George Washingteen
In this episode, for whatever reason, we decided to talk about upcoming Christian movie releases, fascism, competing nationalisms, Scottish football, and more! Order our book https://themagnificast.wordpress.com/pre-order-now-enough-is-enough-degrowth-capitalism-and-liberation-theology/ Get our...
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Dear God, showtimes in my area now?
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. Order our book...
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MAGNIFICA-ST HUMANITAS
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. Read the encyclical here:...
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Trans life and the Catholic Church with Dr. Nicolete Burbach
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. Find all of the essays and books we talked about here:...
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Enough is more than enough
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! Order our book...
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The final pablo
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:...
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The Lamb and his smoking hot wife (the church)
We're back with that revelation's content that you crave! This week, we're talking about beasts, harlots, and more Read Pablo Richard's Apocalypse on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/apocalypsepeople0000rich Or get it from wipf and stock: https://wipfandstock.com/9781606081594/apocalypse/...
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Beastie boyz
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! Read Pablo...
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The Angelic End-times Ska Band
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. Read Pablo Richard's Apocalypse on archive.org:...
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It's all horses
We're finally to the weird stuff in Revelation! This week, we've got creatures with weird faces, horsemen, cataclysms, and more! Read Pablo Richard's Apocalypse on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/apocalypsepeople0000rich Or get it from wipf and stock:...
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Becoming a spicy Christian
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. Read Pablo Richard's Apocalypse on archive.org:...
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The Beginning and End of Revelation
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:...
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Magnificast Classic: Toward a Philosophy of Photography
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…
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The imaginary apocalypse
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. Read the articles we talked about in this episode: https://jonathanlarsen.substack.com/p/us-troops-were-told-iran-war-is-for...
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Magnificast classic: The Dialogue between the Popes and Cuba
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...
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Electricity and Cuba
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. Get The Low-Carbon Contradiction here:...
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Apocalypse now
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! Read Pablo Richard's Apocalypse on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/apocalypsepeople0000rich or get…
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Revelation: justice and judgement
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....
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Nothing Will Save Us w/ David C. L. Driedger
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.# Pre-order our book...
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Locked in for the end of the world
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! Pre-order our book...
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The World is Always Ending
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...
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Magnificast Classic: Understanding Venezuela w/ Jim Hodgson
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...
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Magnificast Classic: Chavismo, Venezuela, and Building Dual Power w/ George Ciccariello-Maher
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…
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Christianity on the spectrum
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! You can find Jon's podcast here: https://christianityonthespectrum.podbean.com/ Get...
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St. Michael's special stuff
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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St. Nick's leaky bones
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. Pre-order our book...
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Baptisms to cool down from the climate emergency
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…
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COP30 report back
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! Read the Boff blog on COP30: https://aterraeredonda.com.br/o-sonho-de-chico-mendes/ Pre-order our book...
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The World Communion of Reformed Churches w/ William Gibson
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! Follow William on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@williamgibsongla...
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Magnificast classic: Laudate Deum, Daniel, the Pope is back with a new apostolic exhortation.
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. -------------- 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...
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COP of Capitulation
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. Read the Michael Löwy blog:...
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The Triumph of Liberation Theology
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:...
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Why is no one talking about how dark Frightfest at 6 Flags has become?
Folks, we're locked in, answering the internet's most pressing Christian questions and talking about GAFCON and Canadian politics. Intro Music by Amaryah Armstrong Outro music by theillogicalspoon https://theillalogicalspoon.bandcamp.com/track/hoods-up-the-low-down-technified-blues Support The...
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Magnificast classic: Peace on the Korean Peninsula w/ Patti Talbot
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...
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Heavenly middle managers
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...
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Plastic bones
Bad news folks, just like Jimmy Kimmel and Steven Colbert, the president has cancelled us, but not to worry, we're coming at you from the depths of the magnificent family life center with all of the reddit questions you can handle and some takes about current events. Intro Music by Amaryah...
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