r/RadicalChristianity May 11 '26

🐈Radical Politics Dismantling the Evangelical Capitalist Resonance Machine

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I’ve put together this interactive digital collection of sources clustered around the idea of what if we went back to the church being an anarcho-communist network of mutuality and common ownership, using prefigurative politics to dismantle the Evangelical Capitalist Resonance Machine*?

See https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/60a5bde1-b464-4f6e-aaa3-102c57ce0837

The sources include Christian anarchism (and secular anarchist texts), liberation theology, Crip theology, Queer liberation, womanist theology, black theology, poststructuralist theology and ideas around unkingdom, weakness of god, radical hermeneutics.

You can ask your own questions of the sources in the chat section. If you click on the number it brings up the original human source (getting away from hallucination issues). In the studio section you can use the audio and quizzes already there (better use of resources since these already exist) or generate new. For those of you who come out in hives if anything is LLM, in the sources section it’s possible to read the full original sources.

*Evangelical Capitalist Resonance Machine (coined by political theorist William Connolly in his 2008 book, Capitalism and Christianity, American Style) describes resonant forces between evangelical Christianity and “cowboy capitalism” that amplify a shared ethos across media, politics, policy, and culture. The phenomenon where Christianity aligns itself with neoliberal power, imperial imagery, strong force. This is in direct contradiction of the early church described in Acts as a grassroots, horizontal structure of communities sharing everything they had.


r/RadicalChristianity 7d ago

✨ Weekly Thread ✨ Weekly Radical Women thread

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This is a thread for the radical women of r/RadicalChristianity to talk. We ask that men do not comment on this thread.

Suggestions for topics to talk about:

1.)What kinds of feminist activism have you been up to?

2.)What books have you been reading?

3.)What visual media(ex: TV shows) have you been watching?

4.)Who are the radical women that are currently inspiring you?

5.)Promote yourself and your creations!

6.)Rant/vent about shit.


r/RadicalChristianity 1h ago

✨ Weekly Thread ✨ Weekly Radical Women thread

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This is a thread for the radical women of r/RadicalChristianity to talk. We ask that men do not comment on this thread.

Suggestions for topics to talk about:

1.)What kinds of feminist activism have you been up to?

2.)What books have you been reading?

3.)What visual media(ex: TV shows) have you been watching?

4.)Who are the radical women that are currently inspiring you?

5.)Promote yourself and your creations!

6.)Rant/vent about shit.


r/RadicalChristianity 21h ago

Matthew 7:13-14

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r/RadicalChristianity 2d ago

Systematic Injustice ⛓ Why Real Christians Do Not Advocate Violence

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Biblical lesson on why Christians do not advocate violence.


r/RadicalChristianity 2d ago

Spirituality/Testimony Diary of a Country Priest: The Most Radical Christian Film Ever Made

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I stumbled upon Robert Bresson's Diary of a Country Priest, and was star-stuck to how it transforms silence, suffering, and ordinary life into a profound vision of Christian grace. This video edifies the Christian is why this overlooked masterpiece may be the greatest Christian film ever made, and perhaps the most resonating. It permits the transcendent to be found in the trivial, God's beauty to seep through the banal, and faith to be unveiled through the flesh of the Lord's creation. I'd definitely recommend this video, and check out the movie as well. This is a film not commanded by popes, or great prophets — it’s a film that affirms that radical Christianity can exist in the soul of the ordinary believer. It reminds us that Christ was once a lowly shepherd from Galilee, Noah was a drunkard, Moses a murderer, David a sexual deviant, and us as the sinners — all saved by Jesus’ radical grace.


r/RadicalChristianity 1d ago

Christians You’ve Been Lied To

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r/RadicalChristianity 2d ago

🐈Radical Politics Was the Greatest Christian Humanist a Socialist?

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Thomas More, perhaps the greatest of all Christian humanists. imagined a society without private property, organized around shared labor and the common good—but was Utopia genuinely socialist, or something far stranger? This video explores the radical politics behind Christianity’s greatest humanist and asks whether modern labels can really contain his vision.


r/RadicalChristianity 2d ago

Weekly Mental Health Thread

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This is a weekly thread for discussing our mental health. Ableist and sanist comments will be removed and repeat violations will be banned

Feel free to discuss anything related to mental health and illness. We encourage you to create a WRAP plan and be an active participant in your recovery.


r/RadicalChristianity 4d ago

✨ Weekly Thread ✨ What are you reading?

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r/RadicalChristianity 4d ago

What biblical lessons can we learn from the Mark Tshuma case?

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r/RadicalChristianity 4d ago

My heretic poem

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The fires they keep on burning- same with the societal rage, we're all fucked up and can't see shit but hey we'll stay in our daze.

Jesus and mother Mary we thank you but it's clear we don't give a shit, the men in black suits that run the world - all satanize it.

The children; they are screaming and the parents are in a craze- but just keep fighting. It's a little easier to keep us in our cage.

The story's been told time and time before but they keep us blinded by our “fragile” lives

But just keep hiding and don't start fighting and listen to our lies

We gotta make a stand, to our promised neverland

I just wanna state, across the United States

Draw the blood of power, on the holy hour

Don't flood the world with hate, just learn to change your ways.

Romeos having fantasies of missionaries in missionary

Cinderellas gagging on her own spit while sucking Satan's dick

We blame it on each other and that might be a half truth, but it's the games they play and what they feed you that keeps your mind in a state of no use.


r/RadicalChristianity 5d ago

📖History Seeking info on the North Side Cooperative Ministry in Chicago (1968-72)

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I read in an article about the 1968 DNC protests in Chicago, that this group served as medics and also 200 pastors were involved in a sit-in in response to police violence. But I can't find a lot of books or records about them.

They seem to have disbanded in 1972. That's the same year that Jesus People USA was founded, so I'm especially interested in any links between those groups (like, did some people in the first group live communally, and then end up living with JPUSA? Or was the first group just an association of pastors?)

Surely someone has written about all this already, with all of the seminaries in Chicago.

Thanks!


r/RadicalChristianity 6d ago

Shakti - Jesus is the rebel

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r/RadicalChristianity 6d ago

Verse of the night for everyone

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r/RadicalChristianity 7d ago

🍞Theology Thoughts on "just war doctrine"?

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I don't like war. Not a fan. Not for me. Controversial opinion, maybe.

That being said, though, I have to wonder: is war ever just?

I'm not a strict pacifist, to be honest. When I consider the Union in the American Civil War, the Allies in World War II, the Sioux in the Black Hills War, the National Liberation Front in the Algerian War, or, for that matter, most wars of national liberation, I must say that (without defending or justifying every action) it does seem to me that war can sometimes be pretty justified. As John Knox (allegedly) said, "Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God."

What do others think?


r/RadicalChristianity 7d ago

The Great Nothing Has Returned: A Christian Survival Guide - PreNicene Perspective (podcast)

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r/RadicalChristianity 8d ago

📰News & Podcasts Vatican-backed priest tours US to visit immigrant advocates, community organizers

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r/RadicalChristianity 8d ago

Made This Video on the Evils of Christian Nationalism Hope it's Well Received

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I believe the God frequency is the reciprocation of love, and that's what we are created for is to... love and to reciprocate.. that Divine love..


r/RadicalChristianity 7d ago

Christianity, accountability & ministry.

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r/RadicalChristianity 9d ago

Weekly Mental Health Thread

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This is a weekly thread for discussing our mental health. Ableist and sanist comments will be removed and repeat violations will be banned

Feel free to discuss anything related to mental health and illness. We encourage you to create a WRAP plan and be an active participant in your recovery.


r/RadicalChristianity 10d ago

If I kill myself will I go to hell?

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How bad is the sin of killing yourself? Will you go to hell if you do? What should Christians who cannot deal with the pain of their mind anymore do?


r/RadicalChristianity 11d ago

✨ Weekly Thread ✨ What are you reading?

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r/RadicalChristianity 13d ago

📖History Hilarion Capucci — The story of a Melkite archbishop whose faith became inseparable from Palestine (short read)

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r/RadicalChristianity 13d ago

Question 💬 Mother God?

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I've been a Christian for my whole life, but for the past few months I've been feeling distant from God. I think I might have religious OCD or something. I keep questioning God, or wondering if I even want Him, and it's been really confusing.

I feel like I've had good parents and a good family, but I have such a hard time feeling like God loves me, or feeling like I'm loved, or that I can be loved by a Father.

Recently I heard a poem about the motherly love of God, and it really touched me as a female. From my understanding, God doesn't have a gender, so why have we only called Him in the masculine form? Why not call God "Mother" or "she," especially since there are multiple times in the Bible where God is described with motherly imagery? At the same time, Jesus told us to call God Father, so I feel conflicted.

How do you actually feel loved, comforted, and assured by God? To me, loving comfort feels natural with a mother, but when I think of God as Father, I just feel anxiety. I feel afraid I'm going to mess up. I feel like I'm not loved, and I'm worried I'm going to get condemned to hell.