You Should Care About This John Bergen
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- Religion & Spirituality
In which John (older brother, history nerd) tries to convince Erin (younger sister, very much not) to care about Christian history by telling mostly-true stories of people's revolts and revolutionary movements.
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Episode 8 - Creeds & Heresies
Fruit-throwing, rivers vs. trees, naked baptisms, arcane fights about the nature of Jesus, long speeches, Emperors, unpronounceable Latin words.
Reading Notes: The Story of Christianity Vol. 1 - Justo Gonzalez -
7 - Beatriz Kimpa Vita
Tasting Notes: Mystical black liberation theology circa 1600, slave revolts, Capuchin - monk or monkey?, young women kicking ass, Saint Anthony
Reading Notes: https://daily.jstor.org/did-kongolese-catholicism-lead-to-slave-revolutions/; https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/kingdom-kongo-1390-1914 -
6 - The Catholic Worker
Tasting Notes: A guest appearance from Erin's partner Ammon, Catholics, to save or abolish capitalism, the question of fighting Nazis, direct service vs. union organizing
Reading Notes: Mel Piehl, Breaking Bread: The Catholic Worker and the Origin of Catholic Radicalism in America; http://development.democracyuprising.com/2007/04/01/catholic-worker-movement/. -
5 - Settlement Houses
Tasting Notes: making shirts, the Social Gospel, Post Malone, first-wave feminism, union organizing, and the birth of social work.
Reading Notes: socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/settlement-houses/settlement-houses/; www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1135.html. -
4 - Beguines, the Non-Nuns
Tasting Notes: Decentralized organizing, feminist resistance, the Eucharist, Penguins, hospitality, urbanization and civil resistance.
Reading Notes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beguines_and_Beghards; https://www2.kenyon.edu/projects/margin/beguine1.htm; http://www.users.csbsju.edu/~eknuth/xpxx/beguines.html; https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/13/travel/13journeys.html -
Episode 3 - The Distruptive Virgins
Tasting Notes: Dropping out of the patriarchy, the Desert Mothers and Fathers, alternative communities, deserts, class conflict, Gwyneth Paltrow, and the woman who actually compiled the Bible.
Reading Notes: The Sayings of the Desert Fathers (Apophthegmata Patrum), The Lives of the Desert Fathers (Historia Monachorum in Aegypte), https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-rebel-virgins-and-desert-mothers-who-have-been-written-out-of-christianitys-early-history,