Latest Sociopolitical Podcast Episodes
Episode 50: Matthew 19:13-30
Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - July 27, 2021 17:00 - 28 minutesThe rich young man man comes to Jesus. He's more sympathetic to the movement for a new society than we might think.
Episode 49: Divorce (again), Eunuchs, and Patriarchal Household Structures, Matthew 19:1-12
Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - July 18, 2021 20:00 - 28 minutesJesus finally leaves Galilee, on his way to Jerusalem, and enters Judea. Pharisees ask him about divorce, and Jesus ends up talking about eunuchs. Good stuff!
Special Episode: Interview with Pastor Marcos Canales
Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - July 13, 2021 18:00 - 53 minutesThis interview is focused on hearing the Gospel in today's context. I interview a local pastor of a bilingual Spanish-English congregation, Pastor Marcos Canales. Pastor Canales hears the Gospel as one who has lived the effects of colonization as Jesus did. Also, his congregation just finished...
Addendum to Episode 48
Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - July 06, 2021 20:00 - 15 minutesOne of our listeners gives a brilliant modern-day analogy to help us understand and interpret "The Parable of the Tyrant King and the Unforgiving Servant." Also, Time magazine came out with an article on air conditioning, and one place in Canada recorded 121 degrees Fahrenheit!
Episode 48: Parable of the Tyrant King and Unforgiving Slave, Matthew 18:21-35
Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - June 29, 2021 19:00 - 35 minutesThe parable at the end of chapter 18 of Matthew is usually called "The Parable of the Unforgiving Slave" because it is understood to be about the behavior of one character in the parable. But a closer examination of the parable in its historical context reveals that it is not just about one pers...
Episode 47: An Alternative Crimininal Justice System; Matthew 18:15-20
Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - June 21, 2021 17:00 - 20 minutesIn this episode, I make the case that what normally has been understood as a passage about "church discipline" is actually about an alternative criminal justice system. The language used is language of ancient judicial proceedings in both Judea and the wider Greco-Roman world. So those who are ...
Episode 46: The Greatest in the New Society, Matthew 18:1-14
Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - June 14, 2021 04:00 - 16 minutesThis episode starts a new section of Matthew, chapters 18-20, in which Jesus talks about the structure of the New Society, specifically how power, honor, and authority are distributed.
Special Episode: Ancient Palestine, Modern Israel, Matthew, Jesus, the Pharisees, and Us
Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - June 07, 2021 04:00 - 27 minutesThe Gospel story has been used as a pretext for horrible persecution of Jewish people in the West. This persecution led to the modern state of Israel, perceived, for good reason, by many Jews as the only way to escape this persecution. The result has been the dispossession of the Palestinian peo...
Episode 45: Interpretations, Moonstruck People, Temples, Drachmas, and Fish, Matthew 17:9-27
Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - May 30, 2021 04:00 - 27 minutesFresh off the mountain of the transfiguration, Jesus counters the interpretation of the temple establishment, casts out a Roman demon, and cleverly undermines the authority of the temple system of the empire.
Episode 45: Interpretations, Moonstruck people, Temples, Drachmas, and Fish, Matthew 17:9-27
Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - May 30, 2021 04:00 - 27 minutesFresh off the mountain of the transfiguration, Jesus counters the interpretation of the temple establishment, casts out a Roman demon, and cleverly undermines the authority of the temple system of the empire. Support the show (https://paypal.me/ParodySubversion?locale.x=en_US)
Episode 44: The Transfiguration, Matthew 17:1-8
Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - May 24, 2021 01:00 - 25 minutesThe Transfiguration has baffled commentators for centuries. What is the point? How does it fit into the story? I think that I have a good answer for that. If we think of this gospel as a "hero story," what happens in that sort of story when the hero finally decides to take the gloves off and go ...
Episode 43: The Turn Toward Jerusalem, Matthew 16:21-28
Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - May 17, 2021 03:00 - 24 minutesWe finally come to the halfway point in the story, where it takes a turn toward Jerusalem. Geography in this story is not always exact, in fact the author takes literary license with the geographical facts, but it is always pregnant with meaning.
Where are the new episodes??? An Explanation and Recommendation
Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - May 08, 2021 18:00 - 4 minutesA short note to explain why it's taking so long to get out new episodes, and a recommendation to try the Bartcast at https://www.bcm-net.org/resources/podcasts. Support the show (https://paypal.me/ParodySubversion?locale.x=en_US)
Special Episode: The Politics of Translation; an interview with Dr. James Fehr
Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - May 05, 2021 01:00 - 1 hourWhat gets lost in translation, and why does it get lost? In this interview, we talk with Dr. James Fehr who is doing work on translating New Testament texts in a way that wrestles with the fact that these texts are from a completely different time and culture and that our modern translations hav...
Episode 42: Rocky Peter and another Temple, Matthew 16:13-20
Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - April 30, 2021 18:00 - 20 minutesJesus and his disciples travel north where a dead king is worshiped. Peter is declared to be the bedrock of the "church". . . or is he?
Episode 41: Resistance Versus Nationalism, Matthew 16:5-12
Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - April 19, 2021 01:00 - 22 minutesHow do you resist oppression? Is nationalism ever right? Can a group be nationalist while at the same time collaborating with the imperial oppressor? Can a movement draw deep from it's own national heritage but still be transnational? Those are the questions that today's episode wrestles with th...
Episode 40: You want a sign? What have I been doing here? Matthew 16:1-4
Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - April 12, 2021 07:00 - 22 minutesThe Pharisees and Sadducees join forces to challenge Jesus, but Jesus isn't interested in their credential system.
Episode 39: The 2nd Mass Feeding, Matthew 15:29-39
Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - April 07, 2021 06:00 - 22 minutesThe encounter with the Canaanite Woman in the last episode broke open a whole new frontier for the movement. The movement for a new society can now include all people.
Maternal Mental Health: Joanne Masding, Katie MacLeod Peters, Rachel Nolan
Otherwise Silent - April 02, 2021 19:00 - 34 minutesTalking about mental health and motherhood with other mothers working with maternal support, birth education and art. We each talked about our professional and lived experiences of what the reality of early motherhood is for many vs the magical portrayal of a blissful experience. We touch upon s...
Maternal Mental Health: Joanne Masding, Katie MacLeod Peters, Rachel Nolan
Otherwise Silent - April 02, 2021 19:00 - 34 minutesTalking about mental health and motherhood with other mothers working with maternal support, birth education and art. We each talked about our professional and lived experiences of what the reality of early motherhood is for many vs the magical portrayal of a blissful experience. We touch upon s...
Jesus Took The Wheel - Bonus
Good Morning Mayberry - March 29, 2021 06:28 - 49 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratingsShift Orion slides briefly into your earholes with: - an update about personal emergencies - deconstruction of a close encounter of the silly little hater kind. - talks about accidentally drinking too much - announcement of the upcoming new podcast Master Of Propaganda!
BONUS - This Little Light Of Mine Is Fine w Tiana J - Patreon Preview
Good Morning Mayberry - March 22, 2021 00:28 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratingsExcerpt of Shift Orion and Tiana J talking about trying to relax as a fixed sign in Gemini and Saggitarius vibes. Come jump in the time machine to a month ago and celebrate Tiana’s 13 year anniversary and hear the story of how she met Joy. Then she preaches about the old chestnut, This Little...
This Little Light Of Mine Is Fine w Tiana J - Bonus
Good Morning Mayberry - March 22, 2021 00:28 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratingsExcerpt of Shift Orion and Tiana J talking about trying to relax as a fixed sign in Gemini and Saggitarius vibes. Come jump in the time machine to a month ago and celebrate Tiana’s 13 year anniversary and hear the story of how she met Joy. Then she preaches about the old chestnut, This Little...
Episode 38: The Canaanite Woman, Matthew 15:21-28
Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - March 15, 2021 05:00 - 14 minutesThe story gives us a surprise twist. Is Jesus showing his humanity, or is he a really clever teacher?
S2E11 - Pt 2 Sister Mary HotTakes Unmasks 90s Kids Favorite Shows Probably Being Made By A Pedophile
Good Morning Mayberry - March 14, 2021 14:13 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 6 ratingsShift Orion is back with his brother Blake (aka Sister Mary HotTakes) resuming the terrible discussion on the unsettling, infuriating legacy of Nickelodeon and Dan Schneider. Don’t forget your tin foil hat, “ShitStorm© DeepWeb™” muck boots, and stay hydrated on your Haterade because it’s HOT ...
Episode 37: Jesus' Zeal for the Law and Traditions of Israel; Matthew 15:1-20
Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - March 08, 2021 16:00 - 27 minutesWhen an oppressed people express their desires for liberation, they often do it by demonstrating zeal for their national culture and traditions. But oppressed people are often divided into factions, each accusing the other of not being sufficiently dedicated to the cause, not demonstrating suffi...
S2E10 - Pt 1 Sister Mary HotTakes Unmasks 90s Kids Favorite Shows Probably Being Made By A Pedophile
Good Morning Mayberry - March 07, 2021 12:10 - 56 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratingsGet ready to be donkey-kicked down a rabbit hole of analyzing kids’ television made by loud sexual predators. Sister Mary HotTakes, aka Blake, brings us on a logically erratic trek through an absolute nostalgia sewer system to autopsy the impacts of the career 90’s producer Dan Schneider built...
PROMO - S2E9 - Cancel Culture Club: Larry Lyons Unmasks Slave 4 Who (basic promo)
Good Morning Mayberry - March 03, 2021 00:59 - 2 minutes - Video ★★★★ - 6 ratings2-minute promo clip of Larry Lyons and Shift Orion leading a rabbithole exploration into Britney Spears’ career. Learn about ghouls like: Max Martin (a goblin who made a life writing sex songs for children) Francis Lawrence (a mask burp incarnate with a compulsion to cosplay white girls in...
S2E9 - Cancel Culture Club: Larry Lyons Unmasks Slave 4 Who
Good Morning Mayberry - March 01, 2021 08:40 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 6 ratingsLarry Lyons returns! To platform over Britney Spears’ career & lead us through a rabbit hole full of ghouls with names like Max Martin (a goblin who made a life writing sex songs for children). Francis Lawrence (a mask burp incarnate with a compulsion to cosplay white girls in other cultures’ sk...
Episode 36: 2nd Sea Crossing, Matthew 14:22-36
Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - February 27, 2021 04:00 - 23 minutesThis second sea crossing recalls both Israel's seminal story of liberation and the boastful thoughts of a Seleucid emperor.
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