Religious Socialism Podcast

I'm an atheist, but I've always been interested in religion and theology. This podcast really makes me examine my own beliefs, and I aprreciate it for that.

For many Americans, religiosity is equivalent to conservative politics and leftism is practiced secularly. I love that this podcast breaks that dichotomy and looks at people who live in that intersection. The Religious Left is small, but offers an important perspective on the liberation of all marginalized people. Jesus was a socialist!

If you’re looking for a discussion of LGB issues among fiscally liberal people of faith, then this podcast is for you. By getting in the weeds with peripheral social issues, verging on grievance studies at times, this otherwise important discussion of the linkages between faith and democratic socialism will be made unapproachable to most. Given the prospective content suggested by the title, this podcast should work for me, and yet it doesn’t.

Appreciate how this podcast broadens the scope of faith to the wider political and economic world we live in, especially as faith is often pigeonholed into more of a personal and individual thing. And arguably for good reasons as history has demonstrated a lot of religious wars! But then, this podcast also points to how religion can help society be kinder and more compassionate.