Join us as we talk to professor of musicology and religion Dirk von der Horst about time, religion, activism, and more.

Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay

Episode artwork: Aaron Willard, Banjo Clock MET (cropped). Public domain-dedicated image courtesy Wikimedia Commons.

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Theodor Adorno

Dante Alighieri

Arne Arnbom (dir.) Aniara (TV opera version)

Naim Stifan Ateek Justice and Only Justice: A Palestinian Theology of Liberation

St. Augustine

Karl-Birger Blomdahl Aniara (opera)

Adam Conover "Why You Don't Actually Want to Live on Mars"

Simon Critchley

Jacques Ellul The Technological Society

David Graeber/David Wengrow The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

Ernst-August Gutt Translation and Relevance: Cognition and Context

Conner Habib Hawk Mountain

Václav Havel

Carter Heyward

Wolfgang Hilbig The Interim

Ayana Elizabeth Johnson/Katharine K. Wilkinson, eds. All We Can Save: Truth ,Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis

Pella Kagerman/Hugo Lilja Aniara (film)

Adam Kotsko Neoliberalism's Demons: On the Political Theology of Late Capital

Adam Kotsko What Is Theology? Christian Thought and Contemporary Life

Robert Jay Lifton Losing Reality: On Cults, Cultism, and the Mindset of Political and Religious Zealotry

Harry Martinson Aniara

Adam McKay, dir. Don't Look Up

Thomas Merton

Marcel Ophuls The Sorrow and the Pity

Marianna Ritchey Composing Capital: Classical Music in the Neoliberal Era

Herman J. and Rosemary Radford Ruether The Wrath of Jonah: Crisis of Nationalism in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Edward Said The Question of Palestine

Elisabeth Schüssler-Fiorenza In Memory of Her: A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins

Dorothee Sölle

Greta Thunberg The Climate Book

Greta Thunberg "Our House is on Fire"

Dirk von der Horst Jonathan's Loves, David's Laments: Gay Theology, Musical Desires, and Historical Difference

Dirk von der Horst The Oxford Handbook of Music and Queerness ("From Queer Musicology to Indecent Theology")

Dirk von der Horst "A Music Theologian Engages with Pope Francis' Favorite Music: An Interview with Dirk von der Horst"

Dirk von der Horst, et al, ed. Voices of Feminist Liberation: Writings in Celebration of Rosemary Radford Ruether

Amy Webb The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity

Anonymous The Cloud of Unknowing