Religious Socialism Podcast

DSA Religion and Socialism Commission

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The Podcast of the Religion and Socialism Commission of the Democratic Socialists of America

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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026

Faith meets organizing here, with historically grounded conversations about housing, education, racial justice, and the moral claims behind collective action.

Religious Socialism Podcast keeps asking what faith looks like once it leaves abstraction and enters public life. Ralph leads interviews and a live panel that connect religious conviction with organizing, economic inequality, housing justice, theological education, and socialist…

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From Debs's house to eviction court, your faith gets asked for more than good intentions.

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  • your congregation's rent assistance to lead to a harder conversation about tenant organizing
  • to hear Debs's religious contradictions discussed without sanding down his criticism of churches
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Broad-Based Organizing & Sacred Values | Aaron Stauffer

A serious look at how sacred values can become organizing power.

Aaron Stauffer treats religion as both a center of community and a source of tension, shaped by a small town in Kansas where the church was where people got things done.

The Uncontrolling Love of God | Jeff Wells

A measured look at how process theology moves from sermons into congregational practice.

The episode follows Jeff Wells as he connects Preaching the Uncontrolling Love of God to a pastoral interest in process theology and to a worship series that brought those ideas into the congregation in 2021.

Allison Duerk | A Conversation on the Life of Eugene V. Debs

A museum visit becomes a clear-eyed conversation about Debs, labor, and religion as solidarity.

The episode turns a visit to the Eugene V. Debs Museum into a sharp look at where faith, labor politics, and organizing meet in one American life.

Radical Theological Education | Tim Conder & Daniel Rhodes

A steady case for theological education that answers to communities, not markets.

Heart of a Heartless World uses its conversation with Tim Condor and Daniel Rhodes of the Black Mountain School of Theology and Community to make a clear case for theological education that answers to real communities instead of market pressures.

Housing Justice for a Better World | with Fran Quigley

Faith, housing, and tenant power are treated as one practical struggle.

The piece moves between religious language and plain housing-justice work, and it stays strongest when it keeps its feet on the ground: eviction court watching, tenant organizing, and the credibility that comes from showing up.

Kelly Latimore | Iconography as Resistance

Icons, solidarity, and the moral work of seeing.

Kelly Latimore's conversation treats icons as a way of looking at the divine and, maybe more uncomfortably, at ourselves. He connects that view to an evangelical childhood, then moves through images that place George Floyd, refugee families, and Dorothy Day in the same moral…

Setting A Larger Table | Live Panel

A serious panel on Black social gospel, justice, and enough for all.

Dorothy Benz, Gary Dorian, and Andrew Wilkes anchor a serious conversation about Black social gospel, liberation, and social and economic equality in the United States and around the world.

Socialism Nerd-Out with Tripp Fuller

A careful conversation about faith, philosophy, and social responsibility that keeps the ideas close to lived reality.

Tripp Fuller comes across as a pastor's kid from rural North Carolina, shaped by parents who gave him a Baptist church with room for women and a respect for science.

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Episodes

  1. 1

    Kelly Latimore | Iconography as Resistance

    Hidden gem

    Kelly Lattimore starts with inherited Christianity.

    ·43m·2 clips
  2. 2

    The Uncontrolling Love of God | Jeff Wells

    Host Ralph interviews Jeff Wells, pastor and co-editor of 'Preaching the Uncontrolling Love of God,' exploring his journey from socialist radical to Methodist clergy.

    ·45m·4 clips
  3. 3

    Socialism Nerd-Out with Tripp Fuller

    Hidden gem

    Ralph sits down with Tripp Fuller for a conversation about the path that made him.

    ·56m·3 clips
  4. 4

    Housing Justice for a Better World | with Fran Quigley

    Hidden gem

    Fran Quigley joins Heart of a Heartless World for a conversation about housing justice, tenant organizing, and the religious stakes of eviction and homelessness.

    ·40m·2 clips
  5. 5

    Setting A Larger Table | Live Panel

    Hidden gem

    Heart of a Heartless World opens with a live panel from earlier this year featuring Dorothy Benz, Gary Dorian, and Andrew Wilkes.

    ·58m·3 clips
  6. 6

    Allison Duerk | A Conversation on the Life of Eugene V. Debs

    This interview with Allison Duerk, director of the Eugene V.

    ·44m·4 clips
  7. 7

    Bonus Conversation with Kelly Latimore

    Kelly Latimore discusses the challenges of public speaking, code switching across different life domains, and the repetitive nature of his talking points in a bonus podcast conversation.

    ·11m
  8. 8

    Radical Theological Education | Tim Conder & Daniel Rhodes

    Tim Conder and Daniel Rhodes discuss the failures of market-driven theological education and propose democratized, community-based alternatives inspired by Black Mountain College.

    ·1h 10m·5 clips
  9. 9

    Broad-Based Organizing & Sacred Values | Aaron Stauffer

    Hidden gem

    Heart of a Heartless World welcomes Aaron Stouffer.

    ·50m·3 clips
  10. 10

    Calling, Purpose, & Keeping Your Soul | Chaz Howard

    Hidden gem

    Chas Howard joins Heart of a Heartless World for a conversation about religion, calling, and purpose.

    ·47m·3 clips
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    Chuck Collins | Altar to an Erupting Sun

    Sep 7, 2023·46m
  12. 12

    David Bentley Hart | Bible Translation, Christian Socialism, & the Moral Obligation of Belonging

    Aug 5, 2023·49m
  13. 13

    Hindu Nationalism & the U.S. Far Right

    Jul 26, 2023·55m
  14. 14

    Capitalocene Q&A (with Joerg Rieger)

    May 24, 2023·39m
  15. 15

    Theology in the Capitalocene | Joerg Rieger, Jason Moore, Filipe Maia

    May 13, 2023·46m
  16. 16

    Decolonizing Pedagogy with Haitian Spirituality | Dr. Wideline Seraphin

    Apr 5, 2023·40m
  17. 17

    Religious Traditions and the Left

    Mar 22, 2023·1h 15m
  18. 18

    Season '23 Overview

    Feb 28, 2023·18m
  19. 19

    American Democratic Socialism – An Interview with Gary Dorrien

    Dec 13, 2021·1h 24m
  20. 20

    Beat Swords Into Plowshares - a Conversation with Mark Colville

    May 23, 2021·37m
  21. 21

    Capitalism as Modern Religion - A Conversation with Dr. Eugene McCarraher

    May 12, 2021·41m
  22. 22

    Compassion in Action: A Conversation about Buddhism and Socialism

    Apr 15, 2021·37m
  23. 23

    Ballad of an America: What does Paul Robeson's Life Teach Us?

    Mar 19, 2021·1h 1m
  24. 24

    Labor Rights and the American Catholic Church

    Feb 23, 2021·56m
  25. 25

    Black Radical Traditions

    Jan 18, 2021·1h 28m
  26. 26

    Medicare-for-All Multifaith Forum

    Dec 11, 2020·1h
  27. 27

    Jewish Traditions of Socialism W/ Rabbi Andy Bachman

    Nov 24, 2020·59m
  28. 28

    From Protest To Politics - A Conversation about Bayard Rustin w/ John D'Emilio

    Nov 18, 2020·43m
  29. 29

    The End of the World, As We Know It: Faith and Ecosocialism beyond Apocalypse

    Nov 13, 2020·1h 31m
  30. 30

    How Faith Traditions Can Strengthen Socialist Movements w/ Bhaskar Sunkara & Rev. Andrew Wilkes

    Oct 20, 2020·1h 19m
  31. 31

    Building Inclusive Movement for Economic Justice

    Sep 14, 2020·1h 13m
  32. 32

    Liberation Theology vs. Law-and-Order Theology

    Aug 19, 2020·1h 12m
  33. 33

    Rev. Andrew Wilkes calls for a Moral Coalition to Create Lasting Structural Change

    Jul 9, 2020·36m
  34. 34

    KRJ on Defunding the Police, Christian/Buddhist spirituality, and her NYC City Council Campaign

    Jun 24, 2020·32m
  35. 35

    Imaan Javeed on the Connections between Socialism and Islam

    May 22, 2020·49m
  36. 36

    Dr. Edgar Rivera Colón sobre la comunidad latinx, la sexualidad, y las iglesias

    May 8, 2020·36m
  37. 37

    Dr. Edgar Rivera Colón on the Latinx Community, Sexuality, and the Churches

    May 8, 2020·41m
  38. 38

    Heart of a Heartless World -Catholicism, Socialism, and Healthcare with Colleen Shaddox

    Apr 24, 2020·36m
  39. 39

    Jay Forth on the connection between capitalism, evangelicalism, and a state of indebtedness

    Feb 7, 2020·1h 21m
  40. 40

    Maxine Phillips: Leader of the DSA's Religion and Socialism Working Group

    Dec 30, 2019·1h 6m
  41. 41

    Daniel Soyer on Jewish Labor Bund History in Europe and America (Part II)

    Oct 22, 2019·1h 18m
  42. 42

    The Warsaw Uprising Anniversary, Part 1: Irena Klepfisz, Jewish Lesbian Poet and Activist

    Apr 19, 2019·56m
  43. 43

    Lutheran climate organizer Shay O'Reilly on demonic forces, white supremacy and climate change

    Mar 19, 2019·1h 1m
  44. 44

    Storyteller Kelli Dunham on her journey from nun to nurse and queer comedian

    Feb 7, 2019·52m
  45. 45

    Rabbi Michael Feinberg on multi-faith labor organizing and what he learned from the Catholic left

    Nov 6, 2018·51m
  46. 46

    Julien Baker is a queer, Christian, socialist — we had to talk to her

    Jun 24, 2018·1h 18m
  47. 47

    "If religion doesn't allow us to build bridges, it becomes a drug" —Rev. Juan Carlos Ruiz

    Mar 31, 2018·1h 16m
  48. 48

    Avi Garelick on Gentrification, BDS and the Jewish Concept of Redemption

    Jan 31, 2018·38m
  49. 49

    Why Dr. Debbie Almontaser finds being called a "moderate Muslim" offensive

    Nov 30, 2017·49m
  50. 50

    "Capitalism has a spiritual formation plan" —Rev. Andrew Wilkes

    Oct 4, 2017·34m
  51. 51

    "I was living under two occupations” —Rev. Khader El-Yateem

    Aug 9, 2017·37m
  52. 52

    "I'm a socialist because Jesus tells me to be." —Rev. Ann Kansfield

    Jun 22, 2017·47m
  53. 53

    Interfaith Worker Justice – A Conversation with Laura Barrett

    Dec 6, 2016·30m
  54. 54

    A Conversation with Professor Gary Dorrien

    Apr 14, 2016·49m