You Should Care About This

Fruit-throwing, rivers vs. trees, naked baptisms, arcane fights about the nature of Jesus, long speeches, Emperors, unpronounceable Latin words.

Reading Notes: The Story of Christianity Vol. 1 - Justo Gonzalez

Tasting Notes: Mystical black liberation theology circa 1600, slave revolts, Capuchin - monk or monkey?, young women kicking ass, Saint Anthony

Reading Notes: https://daily.jstor.org/did-kongolese-catholicism-lead-to-slave-revolutions/; https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/kingdom-kongo-1390-1914

Tasting Notes: A guest appearance from Erin's partner Ammon, Catholics, to save or abolish capitalism, the question of fighting Nazis, direct service vs. union organizing

Reading Notes: Mel Piehl, Breaking Bread: The Catholic Worker and the Origin of Catholic Radicalism in America; http://development.democracyuprising.com/2007/04/01/catholic-worker-movement/.

Tasting Notes: making shirts, the Social Gospel, Post Malone, first-wave feminism, union organizing, and the birth of social work.

Reading Notes: socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/settlement-houses/settlement-houses/; www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1135.html.

Tasting Notes: Decentralized organizing, feminist resistance, the Eucharist, Penguins, hospitality, urbanization and civil resistance.

Reading Notes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beguines_and_Beghards; https://www2.kenyon.edu/projects/margin/beguine1.htm; http://www.users.csbsju.edu/~eknuth/xpxx/beguines.html; https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/13/travel/13journeys.html

Tasting Notes: Dropping out of the patriarchy, the Desert Mothers and Fathers, alternative communities, deserts, class conflict, Gwyneth Paltrow, and the woman who actually compiled the Bible.

Reading Notes: The Sayings of the Desert Fathers (Apophthegmata Patrum), The Lives of the Desert Fathers (Historia Monachorum in Aegypte), https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-rebel-virgins-and-desert-mothers-who-have-been-written-out-of-christianitys-early-history,

Tasting Notes: Second Great Awakening, radical Evangelical abolitionists, jail resistance, white people loving causes more than people of color.

Reading Notes: Nat Brandt's The Town that Started the Civil War, Kerry Skinner's Discovering an Evangelical Heritage.

Tasting Notes: Black Death, The Protestant Reformation, the birth of capitalism, nailing genitals to a church, why you shouldn't run an army by consensus.

Reading Notes: Silvia Federici's Caliban and the Witch, E Belfort Bax's The Peasants War in Germany 1525-1526, various Wikipedia articles.