Red Star Ministry
This is the official podcast of Red Star Ministry, a revolutionary Christian organization in the United States. We share news and updates about the organization, interviews with a variety of leftist and Christian (and often both!) figures, and topics related to Marxism, Christianity and Christian history, liberation theology, and the intersections of faith and politics.
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6 days ago
6 days ago
Red Star co-founder Christian Chiakulas has a conversation with Charley Earp, a UU/UCC minister and Red Star organizer, to talk broadly about the history of American Christianity and the Left.
Thursday Apr 10, 2025
Thursday Apr 10, 2025
In this very first episode of the Red Star Ministry podcast, Christian and Hildegard discuss one of the foundational Red Star essays, Why Christian Maoism? You can read the essay at https://www.redstarministry.org/post/why-christian-maoism .
Note: We apologize for some weird audio issues with this one. It's the first episode we did and we were still working out the kinks. We've already resolved the issue for future episodes!
Another note: At one point we discuss Friedrich Engels and his use of the term "barbarism" primarily in the work Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State. Note that we were using the term in Engels's 19th-century context; it is no longer used in anthropology and has since come to have many negative chauvinistic connotations.