The Magnificast cover art

All Episodes

The Magnificast — 471 episodes

#
Title
1

Enough is more than enough

2

The final pablo

3

The Lamb and his smoking hot wife (the church)

4

Beastie boyz

5

The Angelic End-times Ska Band

6

It's all horses

7

Becoming a spicy Christian

8

The Beginning and End of Revelation

9

Magnificast Classic: Toward a Philosophy of Photography

10

The imaginary apocalypse

11

Magnificast classic: The Dialogue between the Popes and Cuba

12

Electricity and Cuba

13

Apocalypse now

14

Revelation: justice and judgement

15

Nothing Will Save Us w/ David C. L. Driedger

16

Locked in for the end of the world

17

The World is Always Ending

18

Magnificast Classic: Understanding Venezuela w/ Jim Hodgson

19

Magnificast Classic: Chavismo, Venezuela, and Building Dual Power w/ George Ciccariello-Maher

20

Christianity on the spectrum

21

St. Michael's special stuff

22

St. Nick's leaky bones

23

Baptisms to cool down from the climate emergency

24

COP30 report back

25

The World Communion of Reformed Churches w/ William Gibson

26

Magnificast classic: Laudate Deum, Daniel, the Pope is back with a new apostolic exhortation.

27

COP of Capitulation

28

The Triumph of Liberation Theology

29

Why is no one talking about how dark Frightfest at 6 Flags has become?

30

Magnificast classic: Peace on the Korean Peninsula w/ Patti Talbot

31

Heavenly middle managers

32

Plastic bones

33

Socialism and Communes

34

Commons and monasticism

35

Slow Down or Die

36

Magnificast Classic: The Socialist Jesuit One W/ David Inczauskis SJ

37

ChatBCP

38

The Theology of Relinquishment

39

Magnificast Classic: Joe Wallace, the Greatest Canadian Communist Christian Poet in the Soviet Union

40

Riding spaceship earth

41

The Liberation from Trash

42

This could be you (bones)

43

Degrowth bishops

44

AI is demonic

45

Oops all war

46

Magnificast classic: Abolition & Marxism

47

Christian tools for conviviality

48

Pope news: Pope Leo Edition

49

Magnificast classic: The Imperial Mode of Living

50

Conclave 2

51

Pope news: conclave edition

52

Weaponized anti-christian bias

53

Magnificast classic: Angels, Cyborgs, or Just Guys? W/ Marika Rose

54

Muscular Evil Grimace

55

The MAGA Dei

56

The Missile or Messiah

57

Building your own Christian Gundam

58

Not Fake christians or heretics, but a secret third thing: Christians.

59

Welcome to the crypt

60

Magnificast lock in: Gaseous Jesus

61

The Structural Problems of Green Growth

62

Zip lines, the opiate of the masses

63

Magnificast classic: Friends of Sabeel North America W/ Jonathan Kuttab

64

Magnificast Classic: Sandino's Nation w/ Stephen Henighan

65

Cuba update w/ Jim Hodgson

66

Spongebob Economics

67

GDeanP

68

Liminal lockin

69

Magic doors and debt forgiveness

70

Josiah Daniels in Palestine

71

Social Murder

72

Multilateralism from below

73

What do liberals even want?

74

Magnificast classic: Powers of the Other Shore

75

Four more years of crab season

76

Magnificast Classic: Sergio Arce and the Church in Cuba

77

Remembering Gustavo Gutiérrez

78

The Magnificast travelogue: The Bone Church

79

Magnificast classic: Merton, Monaticism, And Marxism, Oh My! W/ Greg Hillis

80

Magnificast lock in: In heaven, we're all pizza

81

How to rebuke your cell leader

82

Crab Season

83

Magnificast Classic: Communist Morality w/ Taylor Genovese

84

Magnificast classic: Monopoly Capital 2: Two Paul Too Furious

85

Magnificast classic: Monopoly Capital Part 1

86

Capitalist growth

87

Magnificast Classic: The Fearless Benjamin Lay w/ Marcus Rediker

88

The Future of Denial w/ Tad Delay

89

White Property, Black Trespass

90

Magnificast classic: Development & Liberation

91

How does the IMF and World Bank work?

92

Do not match my Jesus freak

93

This Sweet Earth w/ Lydia Wylie-Kellermann

94

Magnificast Crossover: Christian leftist politics on the SCM podcast

95

Magnificast Classic: Sergio Arce and the Church in Cuba

96

The ideological college apparatus

97

Religion, revolution, and the future - remembering Jürgen Moltmann

98

Magnificast classics: Revolutionary Forgiveness

99

Have you prayed about this?

100

A composted church

101

Magnificast classic: Black Lives Matter and the Catholic Church w/ Olga Segura

102

Ireland and Liberation Theology

103

Campus Protest Wave

104

Toward a Philosophy of Photography

105

The Gauntlet of Goofs

106

Magnificast Classic: James Connolly w/ Brett O'Shea

107

Magnificast Classic: God Isn't an Investment Capitalist (that's right it's parable of the talents time)

108

Magnificast classic: The CIA & Liberation Theology

109

Paul and Economics

110

Jesus and economics

111

2Joe2Biden

112

Katmandean

113

Magnificast Classic: Love and Communism w/ Richard Gilman Opalsky

114

Magnificast Classic: He Gets Us w/ Josiah Daniels

115

Thinking with animals

116

Between two Francis'

117

Unlearning White Supremacy w/ Alex Mikulich

118

The Magnificast Reads The Book of Genesis

119

Theology for the End of the World w/ Marika Rose

120

New year, same atrocities

121

Magnificast Classic: The Public Work of Christmas w/ Pamela Klassen

122

Christian Solidarity with Cuba W/ Erin, Emily, and Claire from WSCF

123

The true meaning of Christmas

124

A government for the people, pets, and all the other wild animals too.

125

Magnificast Classic: Zapatista Women's Stories w/ Hilary Klein

126

Magnificast Classic: The Rich Man and Lazarus

127

First Light w/ Marc H. Ellis

128

Magnificast Classic: The Assassination of a Saint with Matt Eisenbrandt

129

A Palestinian Theology of Liberation

130

Friends of Sabeel North America W/ Jonathan Kuttab

131

Magnificast Classic: Quirked Up White Boys Reading the Parables

132

Laudate Deum, Daniel, the Pope is back with a new apostolic exhortation.

133

Laudato See You Next Time

134

Rethinking the Manifesto

135

DSEI Protest W/ William Gibson

136

More Planetary Theology

137

Planetary Theology

138

Christian Nonviolent Direct Action

139

Sergio Arce and the Church in Cuba

140

Magnificast Classic: Free Jessica Reznicek

141

2 Hink 2 Furious

142

HINK

143

Nothing Heretical About Kissing

144

The Perverts Guide to Evangelical Documentaries

145

Magnificast Classic: Revolutionary Forgiveness

146

Subversive Habits with Shannen Dee Williams

147

Cultural Christianity

148

Decoupling & Degrowth

149

Angels, Cyborgs, or Just Guys? W/ Marika Rose

150

Pat Facts

151

Angels

152

St Francis & Liberation

153

A Secret Third Type of Surplus Value

154

Socialism, Democracy, and Christianity

155

St. Francis and Left and Postmodern Philosophy

156

Religious Fundamentalism in Latin America

157

The Principality of the IMF

158

Degrowth and Catholic Social Teaching

159

Hope, Utopia, and Resurrection

160

The Right to be Lazy

161

Saint Oscar Romero and the Option for the Poor

162

Pope News: Pope Francis at 10 Years

163

Chat G-O-D

164

Queer Theology w/ Shannon Kearns & Brian Murphy

165

Give Up the Blockade for Lent

166

He Gets Us w/ Josiah Daniels

167

Praying the Psalms

168

Dependency Theory

169

Development & Liberation

170

Monopoly Capital 2: Two Paul Too Furious

171

Monopoly Capital Part 1

172

Special Guest Star Dean Dettloff

173

Magnificast Classic: An Uneasy Solidarity

174

Magnificast Classic: Christmas media w/ Brent Plate

175

Magnificast Classic: The Public Work of Christmas w/ Pamela Klassen

176

Magnificast Classic: Mary Knew W/ Hannah Shanks

177

The Dialogue between the Popes and Cuba

178

Exporting the Revolution

179

Top 5 U.S. Covert Ops in Cuba

180

All I Want For Christmas is For Cuba to be Free

181

Primitive Accumulation

182

Molecular Revolution

183

The Lula Election Round-Up

184

Hallowage Labor and Capital

185

Magnificast Classic: The Religious Exemption Accountability Project W/ Erin Green

186

Base Communities in El Salvador

187

The Imperial Mode of Living

188

Cuba's Family Code w/ Jim Hodgson

189

Climate, Colonialism, and Solidarity

190

The God Who Riots w/ Damon Garcia

191

The Rich Man and Lazarus

192

Free Jessica Reznicek

193

Student Debt Jubilee

194

Bringing Degrowth to Church Part 2

195

Taking Degrowth to Church

196

African Cry

197

The US is a Christian Nation, But That's Bad!

198

Liberation Theology in South Africa

199

Rules-Based International Order

200

Reality Can Be Worse Than We Think

201

The Jubilee House Update w/ Ryan Cagle

202

Hope In Colombia with Hector Acero Ferrer

203

The Vacation Lock-in

204

God Isn't an Investment Capitalist (that's right it's parable of the talents time)

205

Faith & Capital X The Magnificast talk about The Christians For National Liberation

206

Another Parable

207

Quirked Up White Boys Reading the Parables

208

Organize The Church

209

Magnificast Classic: A Very Moody May Day

210

Degrowth and Ecosocialism

211

Kerala

212

Last Supper Leftovers

213

Palm Sunday

214

Penance & Reconciliation

215

Crucified People

216

Big Structural Almsgiving

217

Jesus in the Desert

218

Lent, Fasting, & Degrowth

219

War: What If We Just Didn't?

220

Cry of the Earth, Cry of the Poor

221

This is what Jubilee looks like

222

Magnificast Classic: Damn Daniel, back at it with a fresh essay on commodity fetishism.

223

Revolutionary Forgiveness

224

The Hermeneutics of Missing the Point.

225

More like the Be-rad-itudes

226

Morality & The Market

227

The CIA & Liberation Theology

228

The Magnificast Christmas Party

229

Love

230

Joy

231

Peace

232

Hope

233

Getting Right with Rights

234

More Than Creation Care

235

Powers of the Other Shore

236

Qanon and Christianity

237

The Culture War

238

The Pope is Back at It

239

Getting Cranky about Liberation Theology

240

Spooky Saints

241

Deanconstruction

242

Get Feucht

243

Jesus of Navient

244

The Religious Exemption Accountability Project W/ Erin Green

245

The Capitalinian

246

Real Anglo-Catholic Hours w/ Tony Hunt & Caleb Roberts of The Hour Magazine

247

St Francis, The Communist

248

Feed drop: The Lock In

249

Climate Catastrophe

250

Christianity is Complicated

251

Pastors for Peace w/ Rev Elice Higginbotham

252

What's going on in Cuba w/ Jim Hodgson

253

Fist bumping Maduro w/ Austin González

254

Jubilee House w/ Ryan Cagle

255

Queering Wesley W/ Keegan Osinski

256

The Secular

257

Pope News

258

The Desacralization of Marxism

259

An Episode for your Atheist Communist Mom

260

James 5 Christianity

261

Colombia, Liberation Theology, and Memory W/ Héctor Acero Ferrer

262

Nicaragua and Cuba w/ Margaret Randall

263

Sandino's Nation w/ Stephen Henighan

264

The real miracles are the friends we made along the way w/ Andrew Choi from St. Lenox

265

Damn, Daniel. Back at it with a fresh essay on commodity fetishism

266

Crucifixion and Resurrection

267

Amazon, Alabama, and Miners w/ Jacob Morrison

268

Peace on the Korean Peninsula w/ Patti Talbot

269

Commodity Fetishism and Idolatry

270

The Sandbox Revolution w/ Lydia Wylie-Kellerman

271

Solidarity with Haiti w/ Jim Hodgson

272

Solidarity with the Philippines w/ Ariel and Pastor Jeanelle Ablola

273

Why Christianity and Socialism?

274

Left-Wing Nationalism

275

The Socialist Jesuit One W/ David Inczauskis SJ

276

Guns and Trauma with Josiah Daniels

277

The Good, The Bad, The Biden

278

Hanging Ten with Strikewave w/ C.M. Lewis

279

Communist Morality w/ Taylor Genovese

280

Christofascism

281

A Just Recovery

282

The Magnifichristmas Special w/ Damon Garcia

283

The Magnificast Classic: Mary Knew W/ Hannah Shanks

284

Love and Communism w/ Richard Gilman-Opalsky

285

Venezuelan Elections w/ Jim Hodgson

286

What's up with Church w/ Sarah Ngu

287

Class Reduction is Bad

288

🎶We're coming back to the heart of class struggle🎶

289

Psalty about voting

290

Making Sense of the Catastrophe : An Election Episode w/ Tad Delay

291

Colombia & Liberation Theology w/ Héctor Acero Ferrer

292

MAS is back! w/ Jim Hodgson

293

The RevLefticast: Liberation Theology: Jesus Christ and the Fight for Human Emancipation

294

🎶Fratelli Tutti, what a wonderful phrase🎶

295

The Socialist Ideal

296

On Strike With Dan Walden

297

Qanon w/ Hollis Phelps

298

Doing the work w/ Pastor Jonah and Cameron

299

Black Lives Matter and the Catholic Church w/ Olga Segura

300

But, what if we, Christians, are the imperialists?

301

Christian Anti-Imperialism

302

21st Century Socialism

303

Abolition Apostles

304

What comes first? Politics or religion?

305

Ammon Hennacy: The One Man Revolution

306

Uneasy Solidarity

307

Should we Participate in Bourgeois Elections?

308

Libruhl Freedom

309

Saintly Statues and Marxist History

310

Abolition & Marxism

311

#8toAbolition w/ Micah Herskind

312

[BONUS EPISODE] The Lock In

313

Christian Order and Racial Order w/ Amaryah Shaye Armstrong

314

The Fearless Benjamin Lay w/ Marcus Rediker

315

The Gospel Coalition Labor Round up

316

Political Economy and Christian Rhetoric

317

Stop talking about the religious left

318

Big Structural Violence

319

A Very Moody May Day

320

The Soul of the Wobblies

321

James Connolly w/ Brett O'Shea

322

Civil Disobedience w/ Lydia Wylie-Kellermann

323

The COVID19 Strikewave🌊🌊🌊

324

Rejoicing!

325

Pandemics & Socialism

326

St. Oscar Romero, Unions, and Politics

327

Farewell, Ernesto.

328

The Fidepisode

329

Dorothee Sölle's Shrek

330

Communism and Poetry w/ Dominick Knowles

331

Apost(le)ate w/ Teagan Steele-Fisher

332

Joe Wallace, the Greatest Canadian Communist Christian Poet in the Soviet Union

333

The Poetry of Ernesto Cardenal

334

Jesus and the Politics of Mammon w/ Hollis Phelps

335

The Idolatry of War

336

Yuletide in Dixie w/ Robert May

337

Christmas media w/ Brent Plate

338

The Public Work of Christmas w/ Pamela Klassen

339

Don Feliciano is Coming to Town

340

John Thornton Jr Will Be The Jerry Falwell Of the Left

341

Mayor Pete, The Religious Left, and Electoralism

342

The Winnipeg General Strike

343

Bolivia Solidarity w/ Jim Hodgson

344

Deconstructing Hospitality

345

The Marxist Monster Mash

346

Left Behind II: Teen Edition

347

A Thief in the Night

348

So, What's the Deal with Evangelicalism? w/ Heath Carter

349

Jim Bakker's Bunker w/ Martyn Wendell Jones

350

Anointed with Oil with Darren Dochuk

351

You Can't Serve God and Wal-Mart

352

Owning the Libs to Own the Libs

353

The Evangelicals

354

One Big Union w/ the IWWFJU

355

ep 128 - Big Christ Energy

356

ep 127 - Virtue at Vice Canada with Tannara Yelland

357

Ep 126 - Lobbying for Labor w/ Dri Alexander

358

Ep 125 - Unions & Higher Ed

359

Ep 124 - The Magnificast Reads the Bible! W/ Chase Tibbs

360

ep 123 - Against with Tad Delay

361

ep 122 - Yep, Mike Pence is a Christian.

362

Ep 121 - Catholic Action in Spain 1968

363

Ep 120 - The Catholic Worker and the CPUSA

364

Ep 119 - Brave Commons w/ Erin Green

365

Ep 118: A Theology of Failure w/ Marika Rose

366

EP 117 - Barth Facts: the Marxist-Christian Dialogue in Germany

367

Ep 116 - What in Damnation with Tony Tost

368

Ep 115 - Liberation Theology and Marxism

369

Ep 114 - The Damnificast

370

Ep 113 - The Assassination of a Saint with Matt Eisenbrandt

371

ep 112 - Fr. Thomas Hagerty and the IWW

372

Ep 111 - Peasant Socialism, Tolstoy, And Lenin

373

Ep 110 - The Christian Right Roundup (Cow Heaven)

374

109 - K. H. Ting And Christianity In Communist China

375

Ep 108 - The Christian Left Round Up

376

Ep 107 - Merton, Monaticism, And Marxism, Oh My! W Greg Hillis

377

106 - A Matter Of Fact, The Althusser Study Bible

378

Ep 105 - Christians For The Abolition Of Prisons W Hannah Bowman

379

Ep 104 - Think Like a Rich Person w/ Dave

380

Ep 103 - Capitalism, Socialism, And Communism 101!

381

Ep 102 - Reforging A Forgotten History W Sargon Donabed

382

Ep 101 - Ernesto Cardenal and the Power of Veto

383

Ep 100 - The Big Hundo

384

ep 99 - Dorothy Day's Cuba Blog

385

Ep 98 - Understanding Venezuela w/ Jim Hodgson

386

Ep 97 - Neoliberalism's Demons W Adam Kotsko

387

96 - Socialist Party Theology

388

95 - Christians and Communist Parties

389

Ep 94 - 20 John-Teen: Really Did It

390

Ep 93 - The World Come of Age w/ Lilian Calles Barger

391

Ep 92 - The True Meaning of Christmas

392

Magnificast Extra Credit: Mary Knew

393

Episode 91 - Jean-Bertrand Aristide

394

Ep 90 The Great Moral Adventure of Grace Hutchins

395

ep 89 - Keep That Friendly Fire Burning

396

Ep 87 - Still Figuring out Violence

397

Ep 86 - All Saints Day

398

Ep 85 - Queerly Beloved w Blaire Bohlen

399

Ep 84 - Kim Il-Sung and Christianity

400

ep 83 - The Artistic Universe of Jon McNaughton

401

Ep 82 - The Earth Will Defeat Capitalism (but maybe socialists can help)

402

Ep 81 - RIP Virilio

403

Ep 80 - Black Elk: Colonialism and Lakota Catholicism w Damian Costello

404

Ep 79 - Black Elk & Catholicism pt. 1

405

Magnificast Extra Credit - Prison Chaplains

406

Ep 78 - Pedagogy of the Oppressed

407

Ep 77 - No Gods, Some Bedtimes

408

Ep 76 - #PrisonStrike2018 w Jared Ware

409

Ep 75 - Are Prisons Obsolete (Yes)

410

Ep 74 - The Critique of the Gotha Program

411

Ep 73 - The Communist Manifesto!

412

Ep 72 - A Biography of A.E. Smith

413

Ep 71 - Marxism is back baby. It's good again. Awoouu (wolf Howl)

414

Ep 70 - Communism in The Bible

415

Ep 69 - Biblical Porn (aka some stuff about Mark Driscoll) w Jessica Johnson

416

Ep 68 - Christians in the DPRK w Derek Ford

417

Ep 66 - The Church Offensive w Darrel Wanzer-Serrano

418

Ep 65 - Sermon to the Princes

419

Ep 64 - Getting Diggy With It

420

Ep 63 - Friendly Fire Retreat

421

Ep 62 - Vaticanomics

422

Ep 61 - Remembering James Cone w Amaryah Armstrong

423

Ep 60 - The Communist Driven Guide to Evangelism

424

Ep 59 - The Pew and the Picket Line w Heath Carter

425

Ep 58 - Christian Reflections on Locke Street Anarchism w Kiegan Irish

426

Ep 57 - Zapatista Women's Stories w/ Hilary Klein

427

Ep 56 - Grillin' up a Theology of Violence

428

Ep 55 - The Church and the Rising w Greg Daly

429

Ep 54 - Our God Loves Justice w/ W. Travis McMaken

430

Ep 53 - Gettin Friendly w Friendly Anarchism and Hye Sung Francis

431

Ep 52 - Anarchy and Christianity Redux

432

Ep 51 - Philosophy and Revolt by Richard Gilman-Opalsky

433

Ep 50 - Over The Hill

434

Ep 49 - Gettin' Charismatic w Vincent Lloyd

435

Ep 48 - Church Stuff, Jesus Stuff, and Huey P. Newton

436

Ep 47 - Popesplaining w Kaya Oakes

437

Ep 46 - Remembering Lived Lives w Michael Jimenez

438

Ep 45 - Catholic Workin' It w Brenna Cussen and Joe Kruse

439

Ep 44 - Christian Complicity (and some Zizek) w Marika Rose

440

Ep 43: New Year New Left

441

Ep 42: 20IMAGIN18: Really Doin' It w John Thornton Jr.

442

Ep 41 - The Opium of the People

443

Ep 40 - The Gospel in Solentiname

444

ep 39 - The Direct Action Study Bible Featuring - Friendly Anarchism

445

Ep 38 - Species-Being is a Sandwich

446

Ep 37 - Brett Neutrality w Brett O'Shea of Revolutionary Left Radio

447

Ep 36 - Combat Liberalism

448

Ep 35 - Church Clarity w Sarah Ngu

449

Episode 34 - Christians for Socialism Pt. 2

450

Ep 33 - Christians for Socialism pt 1

451

Ep 32 - Fidel and Religion

452

Episode 31 - Chavismo, Venezuela, and Building Dual Power w/ George Ciccariello-Maher

453

Episode 30 Still Partying w/ Dave McKee

454

Ep 29 - An Unorthodox History of Orthodoxy w Jonathan Murden

455

Ep 28: Party Congress of Resistance w Derek Ford

456

Ep 27 - Identity Politics & Christianity

457

Ep 26 Union Made w Heath Carter

458

Ep 24 - The Peoples Congress of Resistance w/ Jodi Dean

459

Ep 23 - Private Property Is Bad!

460

Ep 22 User Created Revolution

461

Ep 21 - Nazis Are Bad

462

Ep 20 -- Christian Leftist Theory Time with The Lit Crit Guy

463

Ep 19 - Universally Bad with Amaryah Shaye Armstrong

464

Ep 18 - Morality And Politics W/ Matt Sitman

465

Ep 17 - #CHRISTIANITY2017 W/ Daniel Camacho

466

Ep 16 - #SOCIALISM2017 w Drew Van't Land

467

Ep 15 - Wrestling With Boff

468

Ep 14 Camping Out With John Brittingham

469

Ep 13 - Christianity And Socialism

470

Ep 12 - Party On w Derek Ford

471

Ep 11: Theology of Struggle