Ernesto Cardenal is great, right? He is, but have you ever wondered who the Greatest Canadian Communist Christian Poet in the Soviet Union was? Well, it was Joe Wallace. 

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This week on the pod, we're talking trash! This week we get into dependency theory, Leonardo Boff, and coffee

Here's the study we mentioned about sustainable coffee brewing: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352550921001160

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Lately, we've been talking about the resonance between regrowth and liberation theology when it comes to talking about consumption patterns in the Global North. This week, we're taking a look at the result of all that consumption: trash. Trash plays an essential economic role in capitalism in the way it creates growth. Want to know how? Then listen to this episode!

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Folks, this week, we're locked in answering reddit questions, talking about cranky liberation theologian, Clodovis Boff, and ICE raids.

Find the article from Mel Buer that we talked about here: https://www.welcometohellworld.com/a-life-was-snuffed-out-in-the-pursuit-of-a-quota/

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This week on the pod we're talking about the new statement from the Bishops of the Global South for COP30. In their statement they reject false solutions like technocracy and green capitalism and argue that the way forward is degrowth! 

Read the statement here: https://www.cidse.org/2025/07/01/churches-of-the-global-south-call-for-climate-justice-resisting-false-solutions-and-standing-for-hope/

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This week, we're talking about a new article that Matt has in Sojourners Called Is AI Demonic? Throughout the ep, Matt and Dean talk about Rod Dreher, ChatGPT induced psychosis, the history of the telegraph, and how our only hope is organizing our workplaces.

Read Matt's Sojourners article here: https://sojo.net/articles/opinion/ai-demonic

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This week on the pod, we're talking about the militarization of society, speed, politics, and death. In case you couldn't guess based on that constellation of topics, this episode features one of our favs, Paul Virilio. Throughout the episode, we're primarily referencing Paul Virilio's book Pure War. But we also reference Virilio's The Administration of Death. 

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Folks, we're once again kind of busy this week and couldn't record an episode. However, given the ongoing protests and police violence in LA, I thought it might be fun to give you this classic ep from 2020 about police abolition and Marxism. Please do not hold us too accountable for anything we said in 2020...unless it's good, then we're accountable.

This week on The Magnificast, Matt & Dean talk about Alex Vitale's book The End of Police and talk about why Christians on the left should care about police abolition. They also discuss Jamal Rich's take on abolition and communism. You can find the article here: https://www.cpusa.org/article/prison-and-police-abolition-reimagining-public-safety-and-liberation/

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We talk a lot on this show about all of the bad stuff that Christianity contributes to the world. But this week, we're talking about the historical Christian tools and ideas that have contributed something good to the world. Specifically, we're linking together some of overarching themes we find in left-wing expressions of Christianity that have something to contribute to degrowth socialism. We've got Basil the great, St. Francis, Gerard Winstanley, and Thomas Müntzer. You're not going to want to miss this!

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Folks, we've got a new Pope. Pope Leo is here and we're going to tell you about him. In this episode, we cover the midwest pope meme, Rod Dreher's take, the Pope and his past on survivors of sexual abuse, and his emerging takes on AI.

Here are the articles we talked about in this episode.
https://religionnews.com/2025/05/21/theres-an-american-pope-and-hes-just-like-us-at-least-we-really-really-want-him-to-be/
https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2025/05/23/cardinal-czerny-pope-leo-250770
https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/speeches/2025/may/documents/20250517-centesimus-annus-pro-pontifice.html
https://apnews.com/article/vatican-pope-peru-sodalicio-6fcdbb103f78aaeccc58e7b22f81e868
https://www.ncronline.org/opinion/guest-voices/faith-and-deepfakes-pope-leo-xiv-age-ai

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