Latest Sociopolitical Podcast Episodes
The Martyrdom of Jesus, Israel, and Palestine
Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - May 16, 2024 21:00 - 23 minutesCould the Gospel of Matthew have been written to address the aftermath of a genocide, much like the one happening in Gaza right now?
Recommending Documentary: Gaza Fights for Freedom
Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - December 20, 2023 05:00 - 5 minutesI recommend to my listeners the amazing documentary, Gaza Fights for Freedom. You can find it free on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnZSaKYmP2s It centers on the 21 months of nonviolent demonstrations by Gazans at the border with Israel in 2018-2019.
Special Episode: Living Humanly Under Occupation
Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - December 01, 2023 07:00 - 31 minutesThe story of my short sojourn in Palestine 22 years ago and what I learned from the Palestinians. This is a slightly revised sermon that I delivered at Pasadena Mennonite Church in August of 2001.
Hacked! The Facebook page was hacked and then suspended by Facebook...Call for end to the genocide in Gaza!
Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - November 16, 2023 23:00 - 12 minutesMy personal Facebook page is on the same account as the podcast page. It was hacked and then Facebook suspended it. I have alerted them to the hack and appealed the suspension, but as of this writing it is still suspended. A part of me suspects that this is just Facebook trying to silence those ...
Special Episode: The Gospel Made Perfect in Weakness
Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - October 13, 2023 14:00 - 22 minutesThe Gospel overturns not just the order of society but our conception of God as well. When Jesus cries out, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" we should be shocked. We should not just gloss over the implications of such a statement in this story about God revealed in a human Palestinian...
Special Episode: The House That Love Built (Sermon)
Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - September 18, 2023 04:00 - 20 minutesThis episode is a sermon that I delivered at Pasadena Mennonite Church on September 17, 2023. In this sermon I connect the dots between U.S. military and economic aggression abroad with domestic housing justice. The passages cited are: Matthew 12:46-50 Mark 10:29-30 Matthew 6:19-21
Announcing the Launch of the MHCH Podcast and a quick reflection on Deut. 15:1-8
Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - August 18, 2023 22:00 - 10 minutesThe Making Housing and Community Happen (MHCH) Podcast has launched, telling stories of social transformation and housing justice! You can listen to the first episode here. You can also search for "Making Housing and Community Happen" on your podcast app. You can visit the Making Housing and ...
Special Episode: The Centurion Revisited (Matthew 8:5-13)
Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - June 20, 2023 02:00 - 27 minutesIn this episode I revisit the text about Jesus' interaction with the centurion to focus more than I did in episode 16 on the "banquet" (NRSV) that Jesus refers to. What is this "banquet" of which Jesus speaks? How does it evolve in the writings of ancient Israel, and what form does it take in th...
Special Episode: Jesus: A Life in Class Conflict, chapters 9-11 (A Reaction)
Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - May 29, 2023 17:00 - 59 minutesPart 4 of my reaction to Jesus: A Life in Class Conflict by James Crossley and Robert Myles, chapters 9-11, plus a summary of my reaction/review. In this episode: Did Jesus really predict the destruction of the temple? How do scholars understand the resurrection historically? Was the Jesus ...
Special Episode: Jesus: A Life in Class Conflict, chapters 6-8 (A Reaction)
Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - May 20, 2023 18:00 - 57 minutesPart 3 of my reaction to Jesus: A Life in Class Conflict by James Crossley and Robert Myles, chapters 6-8. In these chapters the authors discuss: Was Jesus more like a playful hippy or a serious communist? Was the Jesus movement nonviolent? Was the Jesus movement obsessed with martyrdom? D...
Special Episode: Jesus: A Life in Class Conflict, chapters 4-5 (A Reaction)
Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - May 15, 2023 18:00 - 47 minutesPart 2 of my reaction to Jesus: A Life in Class Conflict by James Crossley and Robert Myles, chapters 4-5. Two Marxist historical Jesus scholars talk about the Jesus movement's mission to the rich and whether the Jesus movement actually performed healings and exorcisms.
Special Episode: Jesus: A Life in Class Conflict, chapters 1-3 (A Reaction)
Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - May 10, 2023 05:00 - 49 minutesPart 1 of my reaction to Jesus: A Life in Class Conflict by James Crossley and Robert Myles, chapters 1 - 3 Was the historical Jesus a revolutionary or a millenarian prophet? Is there a difference? Did he create a movement or emerge from one? What was his relationship to John the Baptist?
(Audio Only) Doing The Most w/ Auntie Boy
Good Morning Mayberry - April 24, 2023 03:59 - 40 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratingsWelcome back, Mayberry! Your good ol host Shift is here with Auntie Boy, the most contrast, hyper masc/femme, elevated and deep, up and coming rapper from the LA area you. This is the Audio Only Version of this episode. To watch the video version, go to Good Morning Mayberry YouTube. Thi...
Hit Em High w/ Amy Dee
Good Morning Mayberry - March 21, 2023 04:04 - 53 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratingsLet’s time travel back to January 29, 2023, with the glorious gem, Amy Dee, who came to stand by Shift as he firmly defends his reputation with the truth. Some liars have threatened Shift’s life and livelihood by targeting him with hundreds of triggered fanatics --- this story is very importan...
Barbiecore Gangbangers Gone Wild w Lapi
Good Morning Mayberry - February 28, 2023 16:52 - 50 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratingsLapi rushes in to update us on the new vile, fallacious smear/scare campaign being spun into tangled webs of lies that are constricting the #freebritney ecosystem. Lapi points out the extreme danger that cult behavior in Eat Predators poses to survivors and allies. Shift points out how much o...
Special Episode: Blessing the Children and Encounter with the Rich Man Revisited, Matthew 19:13-30
Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - February 15, 2023 20:00 - 18 minutesSome new research and connections in these two passages that occur together in Matthew 19:13-30.
The Currency of Truth + Trust in the Digital Age w/ christY
Good Morning Mayberry - February 15, 2023 05:50 - 57 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratingsWhat if you were allowed, even encouraged, to lie? If you’re learning about public communications from Professor Christine Warda, you might find yourself invited to lie… and possibly rewarded for lying if you do it well. Let's explore some angles on information, misinformation, and disinforma...
Belly of the Beast w/ Lapi Part 2
Good Morning Mayberry - February 13, 2023 04:06 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratingsLapi returns to discuss concerns about Alexa Nikolas hijacking the Eat Predators group from the seasoned survivor advocates, organizers only to wind up manipulating the #freeBritney movement for visibility and fame-chasing with Melanie Veronica. Shift misquotes one of his favorite quotes --- ...
Insistent Resistance w/ Jaden Young (from Eat Predators Book Club!!)
Good Morning Mayberry - January 29, 2023 06:33 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 6 ratingsShift Orion hosts Jaden Young --- aka @y2remayne from Instagram! --- talking in his own bold and brilliant voice about how important it is to have morals and caution when reporting publicly on events and people as he deconstructs the impact and consequences of intentionally spreading false narra...
Belly of the Beast w/ Lapi Part 1
Good Morning Mayberry - January 29, 2023 04:01 - 44 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratingsIntroducing Lapi! Here to talk about working in television as a child and entertainment as an adult, developing healthy approaches to engaging with toxic industries, and Lapi and Shift’s respective experiences both consuming and creating media. Always remember to never forget... follow, like, a...
(Audio Only) The Real & True Origin Story Of Eat Predators w/ Caeli Higgins & Kay Brown
Good Morning Mayberry - January 20, 2023 04:23 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 6 ratingsWe had to upload a duplicate of this episode that's audio only because Spotify only lets big-wig Hollywood podcasts stream video to y'all. You can watch the video version of this episode on our YouTube. Can we Eat Predators if we are what we eat? Kay Brown (Four 4 Consent, Nightlife Safety ...
The Real & True Origin Story Of Eat Predators w/ Caeli Higgins & Kay Brown
Good Morning Mayberry - January 19, 2023 10:04 - 1 hour - Video ★★★★ - 6 ratingsCan we Eat Predators if we are what we eat? Kay Brown (Four 4 Consent, Nightlife Safety Summit) and Caeli Higgins (Music Industry Watchdog) join Shift Orion to describe the origins of the Eat Predators collective and how the brand was co-opted as they were driven out… just before Shift discov...
A Holy Legacy w Dr. Larry Lyons - feat. Cancel Culture Club Pt 2
Good Morning Mayberry - December 26, 2022 08:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratingsDoctor Larry is back talking about how parasocial relationships impact our daily lives, collective illusions compiling our shared reality, and some other stuff like family, working in entertainment and marketing, and relationality. This is the 1st half of the conversation from Dr. Larry Lyons - ...
A Holy Legacy w/ Dr. Larry Lyons - feat. Cancel Culture Club Pt 1
Good Morning Mayberry - December 26, 2022 03:30 - 53 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratingsDr. Larry Lyons dropping in again to celebrate family and dissect parasocial relationships, psychology, celebrity, power, wealth, illusion, and propaganda with your good ol host Shift Orion! This episode is part 1 even though it is the second half of a conversation that was recorded on 9/8 (a...
Operation Superstructure Skydive w Mx Defying
Good Morning Mayberry - November 13, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 6 ratingsGet your spiritual armor ready, Mayberry. Melanie Carlson (aka Mx Defying) is here to jump tandem with us as we jump in from 51k feet to skydive into the superstructure that ensnared Britney Spears into an excessively long and cruel conservatorship. Mx Defying is a leading researcher in the #...
Special Episode: Overturning Patriarchy and Re-forming Masculinity, Interview with Dr. Timothy Lewis
Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - October 29, 2022 18:00 - 50 minutesIn this special episode, I interview Dr. Timothy Lewis, creator of the Podcast Matthewlinity, and author of the upcoming book, The Poetics of Matthew One. Through poetic/literary analysis of the Gospel of Matthew, Dr. Lewis has found a pattern in which the narrative consistently undermines patri...
My Imaginary Opening Statement in a Debate with an Atheist
Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - October 11, 2022 04:00 - 10 minutesI've often thought about what I would say were I to be invited to participate in an on stage "debate" with an atheist. Well, here is my opening statement.
Hold The Line w/ Sam Amato
Good Morning Mayberry - September 25, 2022 03:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratingsStarbucks fired Sam Amato after he’d devoted 13 years to them because he gathered with other team members to organize ways of ensuring they all have what they need to survive and thrive! So… your good ol host Shift quested deep into the interwebs to find Sam and bring him here for you to meet ...
The Mystery of Three 14s, Matthew 1:17
Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - September 16, 2022 16:00 - 22 minutesWhy does Matthew divide up the genealogy into 3 sets of 14 generations? What does this signify? Link to Dr. Timothy Lewis' podcast, Matthewlinity: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/matthewlinity/id1398795694
Jesus, Jonah, and Leviathan
Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - September 09, 2022 04:00 - 11 minutesRevisiting the theme of Jonah in Matthew. The "big fish" ain't just a big fish!
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