You Should Care About This
You Should Care About This
John Bergen
In which John (older brother, history nerd) tries to convince Erin (younger sister, very much not) to care about Christian history by telling mostly-true stories of people's revolts and revolutionary movements.
Episode 8 - Creeds & Heresies
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
Mar 30, 2020
25 min
7 - Beatriz Kimpa Vita
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
Apr 9, 2019
23 min
6 - The Catholic Worker
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/.
Mar 26, 2019
21 min
5 - Settlement Houses
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.
Mar 11, 2019
16 min
4 - Beguines, the Non-Nuns
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
Feb 25, 2019
13 min
Episode 3 - The Distruptive Virgins
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,
Feb 12, 2019
19 min
2 - The Oberlin-Wellington Rescue
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.
Jan 28, 2019
31 min
1 - Patriarchy Wrecks the Peasants War
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.
Jan 1, 2019
28 min