

The Magnificast
The Magnificast
A weekly podcast about Christianity and leftist politics. The Magnificast is hosted by Dean Dettloff and Matt Bernico. Each week's episode focuses on a unique or under-realized aspect of territory between Christianity and politics that no one taught you about in sunday school.
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Sep 4, 2019 • 18min
One Big Union w/ the IWWFJU
We just finished up our arc on labor and organizing, but we've heard your resounding shouts, "Give us another one!" So here it is! Here's a special episode of The Magnificast with the IWW Freelance Journalist Union. We've talked about unions in more straightforward contexts, but this episode is especially cool because it shows the way the IWW is filling a gap in organizing when it comes to freelance workers. Check it out!
Check out the IWWFJU here! https://freelancejournalistsunion.org/join/

Aug 31, 2019 • 56min
ep 128 - Big Christ Energy
We've made it to the end of our arc on labor and unions! We've learned so much and we hope that you have too! In this episode, Matt and Dean do a big historical round-up of what Marxists have said about unions. Then based on these insights they make some connections as to why Christians ought to get invested in unions and labor organizing.
Intro music by Amaryah Armstrong
Outro music by theillogicalspoon

Aug 23, 2019 • 45min
ep 127 - Virtue at Vice Canada with Tannara Yelland
Choo Choo! Do you hear that? It's the union train barreling toward your workplace! We're still on that union vibe and this week we're talking with Tannara Yelland, a historian and journalist who started the union drive at Vice Canada. In this episode, we get to some more of the mechanics of how you start a union if you don't already have one.
If you're craving more of that Tannara content you can check out her podcast Big Rings https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/big-rings/id1473204677

Aug 16, 2019 • 1h 4min
Ep 126 - Lobbying for Labor w/ Dri Alexander
Unions are great, right? Are you in one? Most people aren't and that's a bummer. In this episode, Matt and Dean talk to Dri Alexander, a Policy expert at AFSCME to talk about Unions and what they do.

Aug 9, 2019 • 22min
Ep 125 - Unions & Higher Ed
The summer is almost over so, The Magnificast is hitting you with a back to school special! In this episode, Matt investigates the struggle for teachers and grad workers at Jesuit schools to unionize.

Aug 2, 2019 • 55min
Ep 124 - The Magnificast Reads the Bible! W/ Chase Tibbs
For years now, You all have been asking us to be better at reading the Bible and doing exegesis. Well, You're finally getting it. For this episode of The Magnificast, Matt and Dean team up with Chase Tibbs from the Faith and Capital podcast to talk about how to be a good bible reader! Then, using Chase's Bible life hacks, we read Matthew 20 with him and talk about what it all means.
intro music by Amaryah Armstrong
outro music by theillogicalspoon

Jul 26, 2019 • 1h
ep 123 - Against with Tad Delay
Every day you turn on the news, check out your twitter feed, or talk to your weird republican uncle and think to yourself, why are white evangelicals like this? We thought it was a good question, so we asked Tad Delay, author of the upcoming book Against: What Does the White Evangelical Want? what's going on with evangelicals. Delay gives us a lot of good insight into the interworking of Evangelical logics with his psychoanalytic takes!
Intro Music by Amaryah Armstrong
Outro Music by theillogicalspoon

Jul 19, 2019 • 51min
ep 122 - Yep, Mike Pence is a Christian.
In this episode, Matt and Dean get into the discourse about Mike Pence and his enactment of Christianity. Using Marika Rose and Amaryah Armstrong's work we get to the bottom of this whole thing. SPOILER ALERT: Mike Pence is a Christian and he's also a turd.

Jul 12, 2019 • 53min
Ep 121 - Catholic Action in Spain 1968
On this episode of The Magnificast Matt and Dean answer more pressing questions from reddit and talk about the history of radical Catholic activism in Spain around 1968.
intro music by Amaryah Armstrong
outro music by theillogicalspoon

Jul 5, 2019 • 1h 2min
Ep 120 - The Catholic Worker and the CPUSA
In this episode, we read Tom Cornell's article The Catholic Worker, Communism, and the Communist Party from American Catholic Studies. In the conversation, Matt and Dean do some big goofs about heaven, cussing, and talk about some niche history about the relationship between the Catholic Worker and the Communist Party USA. As it turns out, they're both good.
Intro music by Amaryah Armstrong
Outro music by theillogicalspoon


