Grub & Grace

Two white Christians, who love Muslims, breakdown myths and misconceptions that many Americans (and more specifically Christians) have about Islam and Muslims. Mark Wayne of the Colonial Outcasts podcast joins in the conversation.

Mark Wayne is co-host with Greg Stoker on the Colonial Outcasts podcast as well as the acting Minister of Propaganda for the Panther Party. You can find him on Instagram @markwaynedirector.

And be sure to check out: “The Black Panther” newspaper is back in print after three decades. This was the official publication of the Black Panther Party which ran for 13 years between 1967 and 1980, producing a total of 537 issues. Printing stopped after the FBI, through COINTELPRO, dismantled the organization through intimidation, conspiracy, and violence.

To know how much this newspaper is a part of the rich history of the Black Panthers, this reboot is sure to be another marker in that history. If you don’t know much about the Panthers, they’ve got some great articles that’ll help you out. Go support them by visiting their website at thebpp.us to get a copy of your own, and a little bit of history for yourself today!

https://www.thebpp.us/newspaper

Music Attributions: Everything You Need by Fleece Mob

Capitalism has a long and ugly history of scapegoating and exploiting immigrants. From British capitalists exploiting Irish people to the United States’ deeply systemic and oppressive tactics, immigrants have, for a long time, been useful game pieces for greedy trans-national capitalists.

Today we will be digging into the history of immigration, mostly American migration policies, as well as ICE and predictive policing through AI mass surveillance.

And be sure to check out:

“The Black Panther” newspaper is back in print after three decades. This was the official publication of the Black Panther Party which ran for 13 years between 1967 and 1980, producing a total of 537 issues. Printing stopped after the FBI, through COINTELPRO, dismantled the organization through intimidation, conspiracy, and violence.

To know how much this newspaper is a part of the rich history of the Black Panthers, this reboot is sure to be another marker in that history. If you don’t know much about the Panthers, they’ve got some great articles that’ll help you out. Go support them by visiting their website at thebpp.us to get a copy of your own, and a little bit of history for yourself today!

https://www.thebpp.us/newspaper

Music Attributions:

Silencers - USvsTHEM (song at the end)

Auburn Ray - Cody Martin

Dive Bar - Desert Dive

Tokyo Dawn - Ghost Beatz

Spanish Ladies - Fare Ye Well

Outliers - Falls

Big Bags - Ghost Beatz

Minuet in E-flat - JCar

Alenglow - Gold Coast

Bushido - Door to Penglai

Wonderful Wonderful - Emorie

An Open Door - Dreamlamp

Only Designer - Ghost Beatz

A Seat At The Table - Salon Dijon

C’est La Vie - Reveille

Fugue Frenzy - Moments

Suite Du Matin - Moments

In Motion - Moments

Ephemeral Colors - Moments

Sweet Tooth - Dresden The Flamingo

First Bloom - Moments

Wise Words - Ghost Beatz

Olympian - Ghost Beatz

Odyssey - Reveille

With Great Vengeance - Moments

Between Moss and Morning - Moments

This is part 7 of the Enchantments of Mammon series.

Capitalism needs a permanent source of unpaid labor. Childbearing, child raising, cooking, cleaning, caregiving, emotional support. The invisible work that keeps society functioning. So patriarchy created an ideology and way to frame femininity through sexism: that being that women are naturally nurturing, women belong in the home, women don't have any need outside of their homely duties. Capitalism has long depended on women's unpaid labor and role in the home to succeed.

Anyone critical of capitalism needs to understand the intersectionality of the way that capitalism specifically exploits women and people of color. You can't fix one without addressing the other. Liberation isn't a single issue project. When systems are built in tandem, we have to dismantle them together.

And be sure to check out:

“The Black Panther” newspaper is back in print after three decades. This was the official publication of the Black Panther Party which ran for 13 years between 1967 and 1980, producing a total of 537 issues. Printing stopped after the FBI, through COINTELPRO, dismantled the organization through intimidation, conspiracy, and violence.

To know how much this newspaper is a part of the rich history of the Black Panthers, this reboot is sure to be another marker in that history. If you don’t know much about the Panthers, they’ve got some great articles that’ll help you out. Go support them by visiting their website at thebpp.us to get a copy of your own, and a little bit of history for yourself today!

https://www.thebpp.us/newspaper

Music Attributions:

Hard Knocks - Ghost Beatz

Sour Peachez - Tony Sopiano

This and That - Nu Alkemi

Talismanic - Glaswing

Sonic Sepia - Lunareh

Spring Cleaning - Lunareh

Low Fidelity - Tide Electric

Quartz Stroll - Soul Plus Mind

Pillar - Shimmer

Celestial Being - Lunareh

Cafe Radio - Nu Alkemi

Backyard Zen - Lunareh

Run It Back - Nu Alkemi

Primetime - Phynix

Marx’s analysis does not specifically take into account the history of the exploitation of women and non-white people. We will be digging into some of the ways that racism, sexism, and xenophobia play into the perpetuation of capitalism. Today we look at racism as we venture into the Haiti Revolution, Slavery, and the 13th Amendment's loophole allowing modern-day slavery to occur. Join us in part 6 of this Enchantments of Mammon series: The Racism of For-Profit Capitalist Exploitation.

And be sure to check out:

“The Black Panther” newspaper is back in print after three decades. This was the official publication of the Black Panther Party which ran for 13 years between 1967 and 1980, producing a total of 537 issues. Printing stopped after the FBI, through COINTELPRO, dismantled the organization through intimidation, conspiracy, and violence.

To know how much this newspaper is a part of the rich history of the Black Panthers, this reboot is sure to be another marker in that history. If you don’t know much about the Panthers, they’ve got some great articles that’ll help you out. Go support them by visiting their website at thebpp.us to get a copy of your own, and a little bit of history for yourself today!

https://www.thebpp.us/newspaper

Spiritual maturity and financial security are often married within the church business model. How do we identify patterns of abuse and work toward a more sustainable future? Let's get into it in today's episode of part 5 of the Enchantments of Mammon series: The Prosperity Gospel of Capitalism.

What does it mean to imagine a world built upon love and community in place of hierarchy and power? How does our current system run off the back of religious exploitation? And how have our religious forefathers shaped how Christians view the world?

We dig into these questions and more in today's episode.

Once upon a time, the world was enchanted. But as science, technology, and capitalism come to embrace the entire globe, the enchanted specters of other peoples will be duly banished or sequestered as well. Let's go back to when this all started.

Enchantments of Mammon: Episode 3.

As we continue into part 2 of our Enchantments of Mammon series, we dig further into Jesus' parables as well as venture into Marxian philosophy. Continue along with us as we ask how capitalism exploits us and what a better path forward looks like.

If you've ever read the Bible you would quickly realize that there are plenty of stories in which systems are portrayed with the “have’s” and “have nots,” where some have autonomy while others don’t, and where laborers are exploited and stolen from due to a narcissistic greed to accumulate more at the expense of others. Think the Egyptians and Israelites, or perhaps Jesus's parables like that of the Talents (Matthew 25). Let's see what the Bible can illuminate when it comes to resisting empire.

When you think of Jesus' parable of the talents in Matthew 25, what comes to mind? A story about multiplying your God-given fruits, or perhaps punishing those who are lazy? What about passive protest by not engaging in an exploitative system?

I sit down with Jerry Butler and Andrew Bridgeman to discuss this very parable and dig deep as we also breach the topic of capitalism.

Jerry Butler holds degrees from LeTourneau University (B.A., M.B.A.) and Perkins School of Theology at SMU (M.Div., summa cum laude). For the past 15 years, he has served United Methodist congregations as educator and pastor, with research interests in Early Church history, St. Augustine, Koine Greek, and Eastern Orthodox Christianity. He is currently the Pastor of Education and Formation at St. Andrew UMC, but by the time this episode releases he will be positioned in Montana.

Andrew Bridgeman is an elder in Full Connection serving as the developer of Mountain Sky Trekking and Co-Pastor of the Roaring Fork Church. He is also an avid outdoorsman, theologian, coffee lover, and ecospiritual writer. He is involved with Yarrow Trail Co. where he embraces nature, community, and the sacred.

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