This week on The Magnificast Matt and Dean talk about Mike Davis' book The Monster at our Door and do a bit of a round up regarding what's going on with regard to the COVID19 pandemic.

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This week on the show, Matt and Dean read Oscar Romero's Voice of the Voiceless and talk about some of his big ideas regarding unions and political parties. You can get the book here: https://www.orbisbooks.com/voice-of-the-voiceless.html

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This past week we learned that Ernesto Cardenal, one of the big heroes of The Magnificast had passed away. While we had just done an episode on some of his poetry, we thought it's a good time to celebrate his life. In this episode, we talk a bit about Ernesto Cardenal based off of Margaret Randall's book "Christians in the Nicaraguan Revolution."

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Alright gang, you've seen the news and you know that the libs are being weird about Fidel Castro, so we've got to do another episode on Fidel. In this episode, we talk about education and literacy in Cuba and then round out the conversation with some big ideas about Cuban socialism as a spiritual exercise from Frei Betto.

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We're rounding out our big poetry arc with Dorothee Sölle's book Of War and Love. Sölle's book is rad as hell and you're going to be way into it after this episode. We also take a test drive on a new opening bit and do a big Veggietales-esque what did we learn wrap up on poetry.

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This week we're back with another real life poet! Dominick Knowles joins us to talk about his essay A Spectre in Every Street: George Oppen and the Poetics of Communism (https://www.viewpointmag.com/2018/08/15/a-spectre-in-every-street-george-oppen-and-the-poetics-of-communism/) and also some of his own work.

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We've spent the last few weeks reading poetry, but what if we talked to an actual poet? This week, we interviewed Teagen Steele-Fisher (@barnonepoems) about her new book of poetr, Apost(le)ate. Her work is informed by Marxism, Feminism, Queer studies, black liberation, and dealing with the trauma of evangelicalism. Overall, it's some really incredible work! You can buy her book here: https://gumroad.com/l/qbDRz

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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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We're starting a brand new arc! Over the next few weeks, we'll be cultivating our literary sensibilities and talking about poetry and politics. We're kicking the arc off with one of our all-time faves Ernesto Cardenal!

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In this week's episode, learning about Jesus from Hollis Phelps. Hollis just wrote a cool new book called Jesus and the Politics of Mammon. You can find it here: https://wipfandstock.com/jesus-and-the-politics-of-mammon.html You should also check out Hollis' article on the religious left here: https://religiondispatches.org/the-problem-with-the-latest-predictions-for-the-rise-of-the-religious-left/

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