Some would question the wisdom, or the right, of someone like me--White, Mennonite, Christian--writing about the historic practices of torture among Indigenous cultures on Turtle Island. Hopefully, the work I have been doing on this podcast and

Sex Fiends: Jian Ghomeshi, My Rooster and Me--Ch 4 of Life at the End of Us Versus Them

Jan 13th, 2024 1h 20m

A golden-voiced radio host falls from glory. A rooster crows and struts and demands rough sex. A husband catches some reflections of himself.

Spare the Rod and Take the Child: Ch. 3 of Life at the End of Us vs. Them

Dec 19th, 2023 1h 36m

A horse-and-buggy Mennonite community has all of its children apprehended by agents of the state because of the use of corporal punishment in the community. What does this story expose about how we think about the legitimate use of force in our

Ave Maria/Sophia/Gaia: Katherine Bubel and Michelle Berry Lane on Illich and the Sacred Feminine

Dec 5th, 2023 1h 41m

For our fourth and final conversation, around and beyond the legacy of Ivan Illich, we hear reflections and discussion from Katherine Bubel and Michelle Berry Lane before moving into an extended open discussion.Katherine discusses Illich's myt

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Nov 23rd, 2023 1h 31m

Gustavo Esteva coined the slogan "One No, Many Yeses" to communicate the way Illich's sense of "the vernacular" offers many small and winding exits off of the one big road of industrial "progress" that tries to gather up the whole globe into on

”One No, Many Yeses” Sam Ewell & Dougald Hine in Illich Conversation #3

Nov 23rd, 2023 1h 31m

Walking the Razor’s Edge: Illich Conversation #2 with David Cayley and Sam Ewell

Nov 3rd, 2023 1h 29m

Christian mission has gotten a bad name in our time, for good reason. Illich talked about the razor's edge walked by the missionary, between violating the world into which one has been sent (he used the word raping, actually) and betraying one'

Pregnant with an Evil - Chapter 2 of Marcus’ Audiobook

Oct 29th, 2023 44m 50s

Welcome to chapter 2 of Life at the End of Us Versus Them. This is where I give an introduction to the thought of Ivan Illich's sense of the way Christianity was perverted when it sought to impose the Gospel of Christ through state power and in

Four Illich Conversations, Part 1: Cayley & Hine

Oct 17th, 2023 1h 23m

Two Illichian thinkers dialogue on the legacy of Illich, in the light of our present times and predicaments. This is the first of four fortnightly conversations. David Cayley: friend and associate of Illich and the author of Ivan Illich, An In

The Religion of the End of Religion - Part 1 of Marcus’ audiobook

Oct 17th, 2023 1h 7m

Firing up the old podcast again! This is the first in a series of audiobook chapter releases. I never did figure out how to package and sell my book as an audiobook per se, but it feels like the right time to put this out into the world. The "e

15 - Lydia Wylie-Kellerman

Apr 10th, 2020 46m 32s

Lydia Wylie-Kellerman is co-editor of the blog, radicaldiscipleship.net, coordinator of Word and World: A People’s School bridging the gap between seminary, sanctuary and the street, and the newly minted editor of geez magazine, recently flown

14 - Leah Kostamo - Planted

Feb 15th, 2020 1h 10m

For Leah Kostamo, Jesus’ counsel to “Consider the lilies” is not just a preamble to some advice on living simply. It is an exhortation in its own right. For Leah, a life of paying attention to the natural world has led to a passion for conservi

13 - Jodi Spargur - Catalyzer for Justice

Dec 16th, 2019 1h 15m

Jodi Spargur is a settler of Nordic/German heritage living and working on the unceeded territory of the Squamish, Musqueaum and Tslei-Watuth Peoples. Jodi is a farmer, furniture-mover, pastor and catalyzer for justice and healing between the ch

12 - Stan McKay - The Liberation of Theology

Oct 29th, 2019 1h 15m

We like to think of Stan McKay as Manitoba’s Bishop Tutu. He has held the highest office in the land in the United Church of Canada, but his influence and recognition as a spiritual leader of the Cree extends well beyond the bounds of the churc

11 - Alana Levandoski - Integral

Jul 3rd, 2019 1h 32m

Alana Levandoski has been called a “right-brain theologian,” but she wasn’t always open about her faith. Today her website introduces her as “a song and chant writer and recording artist, in the Christian tradition, who lives with her family on

10 - Steve Bell - Completely Porous

Apr 29th, 2019 1h 1m

Steve Bell is a much beloved Winnipeg singer/songwriter. Steve sings songs of Christian faith, but with an authenticity that makes him accessible to fans well beyond the Christian fold. “You are singing your story, you aren’t telling me my stor

9 - Chris and Hazel Harper - Indigenous & Catholic: “One Road”

Mar 19th, 2019 44m 37s

Chris and Hazel Harper are leaders in the Indigenous food sovereignty movement from St. Theresa Point, Manitoba. Born and raised Catholics, they have reclaimed and reintegrated the ceremonies of their people, including the Wabanu thanksgiving c

8 - Danielle Shroyer - Original Blessing

Feb 19th, 2019 1h 33m

For many years, Danielle Shroyer was a pastor to people recovering from a toxic theology of original sin, a theology that said that God couldn’t even bear to look at them without a very bloody intervention by Jesus. With a fierce empathy for he

7 - Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove - What Does Love Look Like in Public?

Feb 4th, 2019 1h 34m

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove is a southern-bred preacher, a New Monastic, and a street-level activist. His disciplined life of prayer has driven him straight into the public square as a leader in North Carolina’s Moral Monday movement, a movement

6 - Kathy Kelly - Granarchist for Peace

Jan 21st, 2019 1h 10m

Kathy Kelly learned not long ago that her last name is Gaelic for “strife.” Kelly has spent a career coaxing communities into the struggle for justice, always nonviolently, always in the face of formidable violence. So successful has she been i

5 - Tim Otto - Brave Spaces

Jan 8th, 2019 55m 40s

Tim Otto is an openly gay Christian pastor, affirming of same-sex relationships for others, while committed to a life of covenanted celibacy for himself. He is truly queer. In one sense, he doesn’t fit in anywhere. In another sense, he has foun

4 - David Cayley - Christian Thought and Public Radio

Jan 8th, 2019 1h 1m

One of the strange wonders of Marcus’ life is that the core of his after-degree theological training came to him through the medium of publicly funded radio programming, almost all of it curated by David Cayley. For over 20 years, Cayley was a

3 - Alana Levandoski - Beausejour Concert (Where it All Began)

Jan 8th, 2019 1h 49m

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2 - James Alison - From the Outside In

Jan 7th, 2019 1h 13m

James Alison might insist that he is “fairly clearly not an authority, and often just a silly old queen,” but underneath his mirth and modesty lies an exceptional theological depth. America: The Jesuit Review hails this institutional outsider a

1 - Ring in the New - The Ferment Launches

Dec 29th, 2018 38m 14s

In this episode, Alana and Marcus introduce the vision of The Ferment and introduce ourselves from opposite shores of a prehistoric lake. Then we ring in the coming New Year with Alana’s musical take on Tennyson’s achingly beautiful Ring Out Wi

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