The Magnificast

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.

  1. 3D AGO

    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: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/the-low-carbon-contradiction/paper Get our zine about Christian solidarity with Cuba here: https://themagnificast.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/christian-solidarity-with-cuba.pdf Pre-order our bookhttps://themagnificast.wordpress.com/pre-order-now-enough-is-enough-degrowth-capitalism-and-liberation-theology/ Get our Winstanley Zinehttps://themagnificast.wordpress.com/zines/ Join our patreonhttp://patreon.com/themagnificast Music by Amaryah Armstrong and theillalogicalspoon

    55 min

  2. FEB 10

    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 it from wipf and stock: https://wipfandstock.com/9781606081594/apocalypse/ Pre-order our bookhttps://themagnificast.wordpress.com/pre-order-now-enough-is-enough-degrowth-capitalism-and-liberation-theology/ Get our Winstanley Zinehttps://themagnificast.wordpress.com/zines/ Join our patreonhttp://patreon.com/themagnificast Music by Amaryah Armstrong and theillalogicalspoon

    54 min

  3. FEB 3

    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. Sorry in advance. Read the book we talked about here: https://archive.org/details/bookofrevelation0000schu Pre-order our bookhttps://themagnificast.wordpress.com/pre-order-now-enough-is-enough-degrowth-capitalism-and-liberation-theology/ Get our Winstanley Zinehttps://themagnificast.wordpress.com/zines/ Join our patreonhttp://patreon.com/themagnificast Music by Amaryah Armstrong and theillalogicalspoon

    1h 1m

  4. JAN 27

    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 bookhttps://themagnificast.wordpress.com/pre-order-now-enough-is-enough-degrowth-capitalism-and-liberation-theology/ Get our Winstanley Zinehttps://themagnificast.wordpress.com/zines/ Join our patreonhttp://patreon.com/themagnificast Music by Amaryah Armstrong and theillalogicalspoon

    56 min

  5. JAN 20

    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 bookhttps://themagnificast.wordpress.com/pre-order-now-enough-is-enough-degrowth-capitalism-and-liberation-theology/ Get our Winstanley Zinehttps://themagnificast.wordpress.com/zines/ Join our patreonhttp://patreon.com/themagnificast

    59 min

  6. JAN 13

    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 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 Pre-order our bookhttps://themagnificast.wordpress.com/pre-order-now-enough-is-enough-degrowth-capitalism-and-liberation-theology/ Get our Winstanley Zinehttps://themagnificast.wordpress.com/zines/ Join our patreonhttp://patreon.com/themagnificast

    56 min
  7. Magnificast Classic: Understanding Venezuela w/ Jim Hodgson

    JAN 6

    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 for the United Church of Canada and was an observer of the recent elections in Venezuela. Intro Music by Amaryah ArmstrongOutro Music by theillogicalspoon

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

    JAN 6

    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 the ways Christianity might have informed Hugo Chavez' political imagination.

    45 min
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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.

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  • Creator
    The Magnificast
  • Years Active
    2017 - 2026
  • Episodes
    460
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    Explicit
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