The Anarchodox Podcast

This week, Bill and Mae have decided to take a break from the unrelenting onslaught that is the news, and instead serve a full 7 course meal, chock full of theology bites! We walk through the Holy Week liturgy and scripture, and have a blast doing it. A full hour and a half of extremely church-nerdy talk, you love to see it.

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On Anarchodox this week:

• The Regime admitted to sending a man to hell in error, and we gaze into that gaping maw of depravity
• Georgia Democrats dusted off their spines and protested an anti-trans bill
• Tariff nonsense continues, but we pause to consider the globalized economy built on exploitation
• Religious folks in Philadelphia build an altar in protest of ICE
• Anarchy 101: A reading list

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The books mentioned:

Anarchy and Christianity, by Jacques EllulChristian Anarchism: A Political Commentary on the Gospel, by Alexandre Christoyannopoulos

That Holy Anarchist: Reflections on Christianity and Anarchism, by Mark Van Steenwyk (now Maki Van Steenwyk)

The Catholic Worker, Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin

The Rule of Saint Benedict

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Topics for today's episode:

• Elon tries to bribe voters in Wisconsin, winds up losing the election. Masterful gambit, sir!
• Cory Booker sets a new filibuster record on the senate floor
• Trump's tariffs got announced, and hoo boy the stove is HOT
• Mae becomes visible, inexplicably
• We talk about the Diggers, a 17th century proto-anarchist movement in England!

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Things we talk about this week:

• The chief editor of The Atlantic was added to a top secret Signal group chat, because fascists are buffoons
• A car drove into a crowd of anti-Tesla protestors, which prompts us to talk about protest best practices
• AOC and Bernie Sanders take their show on the road, and we have conflicting feelings about the whole thing
• Mae yaps about Pyotr Kropotkin for a bit
• Some sober reflection on the Prodigal Son parable

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Things we covered this week:

• Voters are flooding GOP and Dem town halls
• The utter failure of Senate Democrats, and Chuck Schumer in particular
• Trump goes against court orders to deport immigrants
• Texas is the fascism laboratory
• Mainline protestant denominations are downsizing due to lack of money
• The curious case of the Charizard Cheeto
• Bill talks about the secret origins of Christian Anarchy via the 12 Articles of the Swabian Peasants

Articles referenced:

• https://apnews.com/politics/christianity-ted-cruz-texas-religion-and-politics-donna-campbell-d272e4cf0ae598b356f2a676cbcf3d01
• https://apnews.com/article/us-protestant-denominations-budget-cutbacks-episcopal-presbyterian-342c6d294ee2ab687981fb171a7b95cd

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Things we talked about this week:

• Mahmoud Khalil was arrested and un-personed
• The ever-looming war with Canada
• Supreme Court might make conversion therapy legal
• The Oklahoma Bible Grift
• SECRET ORIGINS--Bill and Mae talk about what made them into Christian Anarchists

Jacobin article referenced: https://jacobin.com/2025/03/mahmoud-deportation-anti-communism-ina

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Things covered in this episode:

• Trump made a very long, pointless, meandering speech filled with lies and bullshit
• Dems pose barely any resistance
• SCOTUS narrowly block the funding freeze
• 3000 troops are being sent to the Mexican Border
• We discuss the beginning of Lent, the temptations of Jesus, and our love for certain Passion films

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Up this week on Anarchodox:

• Pope Francis comes down with the sickness
• Paula White-Cain draws friendly fire from fellow Christian Nationalists
• Evangelical Zionists lobby to rename the West Bank "Judea and Samaria"
• States walk back their lawsuit attacking disabled people, because their real target was trans people all along
• And we talk about the Transfiguration, as a palate cleanser

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• Private Prisons are gearing up for the anti-immigration policies
• JD Vance Visited Dachau
• RFK Jr.'s efforts to Make America Healthy Again involve a lot of ableism
• 17 States are trying to remove Section 504
• Mae talks about being a holy fool
• Lectionary

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Article referenced: "Holy Foolishness as a Form of Anarchism," by Per Arne Bodin

From Anarchy and Orthodoxy, Ed. Davor Dzalto

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A lot happened this week, and we tried to make the most sense of it that we could.

-Trump announces plans to do ethnic cleansing in Gaza

-There's some kind of idol in Mar-A-Lago

-JD Vance is so wrong, the Pope has to correct him

-The IWW is optimistic about the disbanding of the NLRB

-The AP is banned from the White House

-The National Archivist is dismissed

And other things. Like I said, it's been quite a week.

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Mae and Bill make introductions. The Trump Regime has begun. Bishop Budde did us proud. Protests sparked across the nation. We talk about Gregory of Nyssa, anarchy, and the nature of God. We also go over the lectionary for the week, and how it speaks to us.

Essay discussed: "Not by Violence and Tyrannical Domination: Apophatic Political Theology in Gregory of Nyssa," by Johannes A. Steenbuch, in Orthodoxy and Anarchism: Contemporary Perspectives, ed. by Davor Dzalto, Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, London UK, 2004.

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