Fruitless

Josiah is joined by Joel Harrison (@profjharrison) of uswithoutThem to discuss the book he’s writing on Christian music of the 1990s and 2000s, specifically bands signed on to Tooth & Nail. This serves as an entry point to discuss the broader religious and political development of millennial evangelicals and the rise of “deconstruction” or exvangelical movements.

References

Against by Tad Delay

Music

Yesterday – bloom.

January 1979 – mewithoutYou

The Sun and the Moon – mewithoutYou

Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt – mewithoutYou

Taste the Red Hands – Dead Poetic

In My Dreams – bloom.

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In today's episode, Josiah is joined by Morgan Vander Hart, a good friend and anarchist who is heavily involved in mutual aid work in Des Moines, IA. They discuss the state of radical politics in Des Moines and the Midwest after the 2020 George Floyd protests and the struggle for hope in spite of the increasingly dire political situation in the United States.

I didn't release a second episode for March. Since I broke that promise, I'm going to try to release two more in April if I'm able to. See you later this month.

Music credit
Yesterday – bloom.
ghidorah - peaceeater
In My Dreams - bloom.

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Josiah is joined by Chris Barker to discuss the Russo-Ukrainian War. The invasion of Ukraine has lead to a lot of scrambling to make sense of the conflict. Chris and Josiah walk through some of the history of Ukraine before offering their thoughts on the future and where they think the left is gets lost.

Referenced Works
Neonazis & Euromaidan - Aleksey Kochetkov and Stanislav Byshok (Russian propaganda book)

Music credit
Yesterday – bloom.
Мы идём в тишине - Чёрный Лукич
Далеко бежит дорога (Впереди веселья много) - Гражданская Оборона

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Josiah is joined by Francis Cooper (@attnfrancis) to discuss his conversion to Eastern Orthodoxy. Francis and Josiah have been friends for a long time and both went through various "deconstruction" paths regarding their former evangelical faiths. Through this conversation, they talk about their spiritual journeys to high church traditions and what, for Francis, is compelling about Orthodox spirituality. Francis also makes it clear that, if anything he says contradicts an Orthodox priest, you should trust the priest.

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Referenced works
The Bible
Spiritual Psalter of St. Ephraim the Syrian, or Reflections on God
The Paschal Sermon of St. John Chrysostom

Music

Yesterday – bloom.
Up the Wolves - The Mountain Goats
Every Thought a Thought of You - mewithoutYou
Eating Paper - David Bazan
Lost and Found - Seth Cloe and the Silver Liners

Josiah is joined by Josh Christianson (@GnomeChamsky) to discuss the Midwest as a region and a concept. The Midwest represent "normality" in the American psyche despite it being a very weird place. It gets treated as a place without history, and it has a mythology of not having a mythology. In a casual discussion, Josiah and Josh deconstruct these ideas and ask what the future of the Midwest may be, calling for a re-imagining of Midwestern identity.

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Referenced works
Midwest Futures - Phil Christman
The danger of mythologizing America's "heartland" - Phil Christman
Dawn of Everything - David Graeber & David Wengrow
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States - Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Universal Harvester - John Darnielle

Music

Yesterday – bloom.
Cow - Sparklehorse
Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis - Tom Waits

Positive Jam - The Hold Steady

 Brief introduction to who I am and what I’m doing here.

Music
Yesterday - bloom.
In My Dreams - bloom.

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