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Community After God: Why the Left Needs What Church Provided

Community After God: Why the Left Needs What Church Provided

Episode 1779 Published 1 month, 3 weeks ago
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Air Date: 3/24/2026

Today we explore what happens when people reject religious dogma but still hunger for ritual, meaning, and the concrete benefits of community. We'll hear from secular assemblies building "church without creed," atheist Quakers finding silence sacred, and a Caribbean thinker designing a naturalistic pagan practice built around science and seasonal ritual — all asking what religion can be when you strip away the supernatural.

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TOP TAKES

KP 1: GOD IS NO-THING - Pete Holmes - Air Date 3-3-26

KP 2: Non-religious Americans Seek Community - All Things Considered - Air Date 1-28-24

KP 3: Why Atheists CAN Be Quakers. - Quake It Up - Air Date 8-30-25

KP 4: Why Are Black People Still Christian? - Garrison Hayes - Air Date 4-7-24

KP 5: What Is Liberation Theology & Can It Help The Left? (TMBS 145) - The Michael Brooks Show - Air Date 6-25-20

KP 6: Its Time To Rethink Religion Part 1 - Andrewism - Air Date 3-11-26

(00:49:04) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR

On the Left's Community Crisis and What We Can Learn from Megachurches

DEEPER DIVES

(01:00:06) SECTION A: LIBERATION THEOLOGY

A1: Cornel West: Can Socialists Reclaim Christianity? - Jacobin - Air Date 3-4-26

A2: A Palestinian Theology of Liberation - The Magnificast - Air Date 10-30-23

A3: Brief: US V. Liberation Theology (Part 1) - Conspirituality - Air Date 11-1-25

A4: Visions of Freedom — Liberation Theology and Advent - Soul Search - Air Date 11-27-24

A5: The Sunday Interview: How Christianity Shaped America: Matthew Avery Sutton on Power, Evangelicals, and the "Chosen Land" Part 1 - Straight White American Jesus - Air Date 3-15-26

(01:44:22) SECTION B: WHY IS AMERICAN CHRISTIANITY SO CONSERVATIVE_

B1: How Conservatives Co-Opted Christianity - Second Thought - Air Date 9-24-21

B2: America's Christian Death

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