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Coalition of the Sane

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"Coalition of the Sane" is an adventurous, thought-provoking podcast that delves into current politics with a focus on commonsense, rationality and critical thinking. Hosted by the intrepid Denver Riggleman, former congressman, former advisor to the J6 committee, former NSA and Air Force intelligence officer and current AI tech CEO, this podcast aims to combat conspiracy theories, dismantle propaganda and preserve democracy by providing well-researched analysis and evidence-based discussions ...
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Essay Questions

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Essay Questions is the podcast in which your hosts, Joe & Josh, read an essay that's interesting to them and/or of historical importance, and then talk about it. Pretty simple, right? Well, we like to think we're using these essays as a starting point for conversations that end up going in strange and surprising directions. Nothing makes us happier than dragging luminaries like Mencken, Orwell, Adorno, and Didion into our own long-standing obsessions with conspiracy theories, the National Se ...
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Molotov Now!

Sabot Media

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In Molotov Now! We analyze and discuss articles shared by The Harbor Rat Report and other stories of resistance across the globe with a focus on rural organizing. The unique dynamics of community organizing in small towns, and the often reactionary rural politics we face leads to special tactical considerations that we feel urban comrades need to learn from. In the spirit of building solidarity between the rural & the urban and inspiring direct action in the face of capitalist oppression. We ...
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The purpose of Evil: A North Korean Christian Refugee Perspective (American Society of Missiology, 2024) is to describe how the North Korean refugee understanding of evil can shape missionary practice in the Korean Peninsula. The central research question guiding this study is, How do North Korean Christian refugees describe evil based on their liv…
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Why did so many rulers throughout history risk converting to a new religion brought by outsiders? In his award-winning Unearthly Powers (2019), Dr. Alan Strathern set out a theoretical framework for understanding the relation between religion and political authority based on a distinction between two kinds of religion - immanentism and transcendent…
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The Anabaptists, alongside the Lutheran and Reformed churches, were the third major current in the sixteenth century Reformation movements. From their beginnings, the Anabaptists were highly diverse and yet they shared some central beliefs and practices for which they were quickly persecuted – for example, defenselessness and nonresistance, the ref…
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A cornerstone of the evangelization of early New Spain was the conversion of Nahua boys, especially the children of elites. They were to be emissaries between Nahua society and foreign missionaries, hastening the transmission of the gospel. Under the tutelage of Franciscan friars, the boys also learned to act with militant zeal. They sermonized and…
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Christian mission in the modern era has generally been conceptualized as a Western endeavor: “from the West to the rest.” The rise and explosive growth of world Christianity has challenged this narrative, emphasizing Christian mission as “from everywhere to everywhere.” Dr. Las Newman contributes to this revitalized perspective, interrogating our u…
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Together, the adherents of Christianity and Islam make up over half of the world's population, and their numbers are expected to keep growing. The influence of these two faiths—and their relations with each other—is seen in politics, economics, and social interactions. Religious identity and aspirations remain powerful and appealing to people aroun…
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Intro: S: This is Sprout C: and this is Charyan, and we are the hosts of Molotov Now!, on The Channel Zero Podcast Network, thank you for joining us on this episode of the podcast. S: if you like what we do here and want to support it, you can do that by going to linktr.ee/al1312 and clicking donate, or scrolling to the bottom for Patreon. C: "Hell…
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In Paul’s New Creation: Vision for a New World and Community (Lexington Book, 2023), Sejong Chun presents inter(con)textual readings of Paul’s new creation passages from the perspective of the Korean immigrant church in America. Chun focuses on Paul’s new creation’s cosmic dimension and ecclesiastical character and proposes the ekklēsia as a tangib…
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The Crisis of Colonial Anglicanism: Empire, Slavery and Revolt in the Church of England (Hurst, 2025) by Dr. Martyn Percy offers a bold and unsettling truth: the British Empire and Great Britain are primarily English constructions, and the Church of England benefited from English enterprise and exploitation, serving as the spiritual arm of the impe…
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When we think of the sixteenth-century arrival of European missionaries in East Asia, there is a tendency to imagine this meeting as a civilizational clash, a great meeting of two fixed cultures. This clash is symbolized in the ‘Ricci map(s)’: a map created by a Jesuit missionary to bring scientific cartography to East Asia. Remapping the World in …
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Theological seminaries and Bible institutes find themselves at the crossroads of preserving biblical faithfulness and of maintaining contextual relevance. What does faithful contextual relevance look like? How can theological institutions steer a course that will engage and serve the church through the men and women they equip for ministry and serv…
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Palestine's Christians and the Nationalist Cause: The Late Ottoman and Mandatory Periods (Routledge, 2024) provides an historical overview of Palestine's Christian communities and their role in the Palestinian nationalist movement during the late Ottoman and British mandatory periods. More than being a history of Palestine's Christian Arabs, the bo…
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Many people assume that the first introduction of Christianity to the Chinese was part of nineteenth-century Western imperialism. In fact, Syriac-speaking Christians brought the gospel along the Silk Road into China in the seventh century. Glen L. Thompson introduces readers to the fascinating history of this early Eastern church, referred to as Ji…
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Christian theologians and students are aware that evangelicals in the Majority World now outnumber those in North America and Europe, and many want to know more about emerging voices in the global church. At the same time, these voices are largely absent from Western evangelical theology. In Why Evangelical Theology Needs the Global Church (Baker G…
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The Brill Encyclopedia of Early Christianity: Authors, Texts, and Ideas (Brill, 2024) focuses on the history of early Christianity, covering texts, authors, ideas, and their reception. Its content is intended to bridge the gap between the fields of New Testament studies and patristics, connecting a number of related fields of study including Judais…
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In Missiology Reimagined: The Missions Theology of the Nineteenth-Century African American Missionary (Pickwick, 2024), Kent Michael Shaw I examines the lives and theology of early African American missionaries of the Antebellum and Reconstruction era. The enslaved and formerly enslaved constructed a hermeneutic and interpreted the sacred text thro…
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The ancient Mediterranean teemed with gods. For centuries, a practical religious pluralism prevailed. How, then, did one particular god come to dominate the politics and piety of the late Roman Empire? In Ancient Christianities: The First Five Hundred Years (Princeton University Press, 2024), Dr. Paula Fredriksen traces the evolution of early Chris…
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Justin K.H. Tse captures the voices of Cantonese Protestant Christians from the San Francisco, Vancouver, and Hong Kong metropolitan areas as they reflect on their efforts to adapt to secular communities while retaining their identity and beliefs. In the context of the transpacific region between Asia and the Americas, the “Pacific Rim” refers to a…
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In this fascinating interview, Nathanael J. Homewood discusses his new book,Seductive Spirits: Deliverance, Demons, and Sexual Worldmaking in Ghanaian Pentecostalism (Stanford University Press, 2024). Pentecostalism, Africa's fastest-growing form of Christianity, has long been preoccupied with the business of banishing demons from human bodies. Amo…
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An illuminating history of religious and political controversy in nineteenth-century Bengal, where Protestant missionary activity spurred a Christian conversion “panic” that indelibly shaped the trajectory of Hindu and Muslim politics. In 1813, the British Crown adopted a policy officially permitting Protestant missionaries to evangelize among the …
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This episode will see us exploring the new and shifting landscape of those involved in organizing in the unhoused community in their town. Ever since the so called supreme court handed down the Grants Pass decision communities have been scrambling to understand what cities are able to do and how to respond to the influx of anti homeless ordinances …
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The Nature of Christian Doctrine: Its Origins, Development, and Function (Oxford UP, 2024) offers a groundbreaking account of the origins, development, and enduring significance of Christian doctrine, explaining why it remains essential to the life of Christian communities. Noting important parallels between the development of scientific theories a…
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In this episode we talk with Honey about their experiences in counter protesting the recent Christian Fascist movement against trans people and others. We hear about previous actions, upcoming events to be aware of, and discuss possible ways to effectively counter this movement. Hope you enjoy! Music this Episode: Total Chroma - Driftless THE GOBS …
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A “wonderful…highly comprehensive” (John Barton, author of A History of the Bible) global history of the world’s best-known and most influential book For Christians, the Bible is a book inspired by God. Its eternal words are transmitted across the world by fallible human hands. Following Jesus’s departing instruction to go out into the world, the B…
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In 1924, the crown prince and future emperor of Ethiopia, Ras Täfäri, on a visit to Jerusalem, called on forty Armenian orphans who had survived the genocide of 1915-1916 to form his empire's royal brass band. The conductor, who was also Armenian, composed the first official anthem of the Ethiopian state. Drawing on this highly symbolic event, and …
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For his fifteenth-century followers, Jesus was everywhere – from baptism to bloodcults to bowling. This sweeping and unconventional investigation looks at Jesus across one hundred forty years of social, cultural, and intellectual history. Mystics married him, Renaissance artists painted him in three dimensions, Muslim poets praised his life-giving …
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A compelling work that explores the lives and aspirations of young footballers with deep nuance and insight, The Precarity of Masculinity: Football, Pentecostalism, and Transnational Aspirations in Cameroon (Berghahn Books, 2022) shows how precarious masculinity, Pentecostal spirituality, and aspirations of prosperous futures are intertwining and i…
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Today I talked to Iemima Ploscariu about Alternative Evangelicals: Challenging Nationalism in Interwar Romania's Multi-ethnic Borderlands (Brill, 2024). Evangelicals in interwar Romania were a vibrant mix of ethnicities, languages, and social statuses. Jews, Roma, Germans, Hungarians, Serbs, Ukrainians, and Russians sang, prayed, and preached in th…
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Jehovah’s Witnesses are one of the most successful “new religious movements” to have emerged from the prophetic ferment within later nineteenth-century Protestantism. Always controversial, often persecuted, and well-known for their proselytising efforts, they have made a substantial contribution in terms of human rights, and they count numerous fam…
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This is Sprout, and this is Charyan, and we are the hosts of Molotov Now!, on The Channel Zero Podcast Network, thank you for joining us on this episode of the podcast. If you like what we do here and want to support it, you can do that by going to linktr.ee/al1312 and clicking donate. We are returning to you after a hiatus over the summer that saw…
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Are we becoming unserious? Is BlueAnon a thing? Denver Riggleman wonders aloud if the opposition to Donald Trump isn't being led down rabbit holes of our own making. Also, what are the facts we should be focused on; and what are Kamala Harris' chances of becoming President Of The United States? Subscribe To The Coalition Of The Sane YouTube Channel…
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Operating on the premise that our failure to recognize our interconnected relationship to the rest of the cosmos is the origin of planetary peril, Ecological Solidarities: Mobilizing Faith and Justice for an Entangled World (Penn State University Press, 2019) presents academic, activist, and artistic perspectives on how to inspire reflection and mo…
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On this wild episode of Coalition Of The Sane, Denver Riggleman and Bucks County Beacon writer, Jennifer Cohn walk you through the financial spider web of the far right Christian nationalist networks that fund everything from the disruption of local school boards, NAR, Project 2025, and even The United States Supreme Court itself. Where does the mo…
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Denver responds to being included on "the list." Donald Trump's self declared "Secretary Of Retribution" Ivan Raiklin just published a list of 370 names "for imprisonment." Several of Convicted Felon/Disgraced Former President Trump's perceived political enemies are on this list including The Obamas, The Clintons, various FBI Agents, U.S Military G…
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Former Virginia Congressman and Senior Technical Advisor to the J6 Committee, Denver Riggleman is joined by the one and only Tara Setmayer to discuss her new political action group targeted specifically toward politically moderate women called, The Seneca Project. Then the conversation takes a turn at wondering out loud whether Christian Nationalis…
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Denver Riggleman is joined by Fair Elections Advocate and Bucks County Beacon/Christian Right Observer Weekly writer Jennifer Cohn to discuss the connections between the Christian far right Project 2025 Mission and the recent rulings by this Trump friendly Supreme Court. #election2024 Subscribe To The Coalition Of The Sane YouTube Channel : https:/…
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On December 10th 2020, Denver Riggleman (R-VA) addressed Congress for the final time. During his farewell speech, Denver accused members of his own Republican Party of spreading disinformation about the 2020 presidential election. It was also the first time QAnon had been mentioned out loud on the floor. Denver Riggleman lost his primary race to Bo…
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Immediately after the CNN Debate, Denver Riggleman was joined live by the Seneca Project's Tara Setmayer, Michelle Kinney and Rina Shah. The broadcast went out to over 10,000 viewers moments after the debate ended. Subscribe To The Coalition Of The Sane YouTube Channel : https://www.youtube.com/@CoalitionOfTheSane Check Out Our Merch : http://tee.p…
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Denver is joined by the one and only Tara Setmayer of The Seneca Project to discuss what President Joe Biden needs to do tomorrow during the first 2024 Presidential Debate with convicted felon and disgraced Ex-President, Donald J. Trump. Denver and Tara will also go live tomorrow night immediately after the debate to give you their live reaction an…
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Political strategist and Lincoln Project cofounder Reed Galen joins Denver Riggleman to discuss their long and storied careers in the Republican party, before later becoming pariahs of the MAGA cult - who often dismiss them as being “RINOs.” Reed tells the story of being in Florida during the recount of the 2000 Bush/Gore election and believing wit…
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Denver Riggleman talks about Pastor Robert Morris’ recent admission that he had molested a twelve-year-old girl when he was in his twenties. Pastor Morris was of course a “spiritual advisor” to former disgraced President Donald J Trump. Many of Pastor Morris’ Dallas Megachurch follow Donald Trump, despite the adultery, the proven sexual assault, th…
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Denver Riggleman responds to Marjorie Taylor Greene’s absurd statement in front of a Turning Point Pac event that anyone shaming MAGA over January 6th “can go to hell.” Denver of course famously retrieved the call data for the January 6th Committee. Subscribe To The Coalition Of The Sane YouTube Channel : https://www.youtube.com/@CoalitionOfTheSane…
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Meet the woman who took out Breitbart News. The trolls couldn’t stop her, Steve Bannon couldn’t stop her; Hell, The Mercer’s themselves couldn’t stop her. Nandini Jammi, was the cofounder of Sleeping Giants. She tells Denver what it took to smash Breitbart’s ad revenue, what Check My Ads.org does to combat the disinformation economy and what inspir…
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Amidst the global instability of the early twentieth century, white Christian American women embraced the idea of an “empire of Christ” that was racially diverse, but which they believed they were uniquely qualified to manage. America’s burgeoning power, combined with women’s rising roles within the church, led to white Protestant women adopting a …
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Denver Riggleman weighs in on Samuel and Martha Alito's leaked hot mic moments that were brilliantly captured by Lauren Windsor. Denver then compares the Alitos and Thomas'. Subscribe To The Coalition Of The Sane YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJTO9R9tqH1vQTB-h5UcTwQ Subscribe To The Coalition Of The Sane YouTube Channel : https:/…
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Natasha Owens is a singer who clearly failed at the arts, so she writes songs about Donald Trump for the Spotify clicks. But is low rent cell phone company paying for the studio time, the video editors, and the over the top costumes? Who funds Patriot Mobile? Subscribe To The Coalition Of The Sane YouTube Channelhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJT…
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Denver Riggleman reacts to the criminal trial regarding Hunter Biden's weapon charges. Should Hunter Biden go to jail? Is the Trump appointed judge going to be fair? Are the Democrats OR Republicans going accept the verdict either way? Subscribe To The Coalition Of The Sane YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJTO9R9tqH1vQTB-h5UcTwQ Ch…
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The woman who built Trump Tower speaks! Barbara Res, Author of Tower Of Lies, was the head of construction for The Trump Organization for eighteen years. She spoke with Denver Riggleman about the time period that she feels Donald Trump was starting to lose all connection with his humanity. Barbara also gives us some insight into Fred Trump, Roy Coh…
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With a focus on Robert Morrison, Protestant Missionaries in China: Robert Morrison and Early Sinology (U Notre Dame Press, 2024) evaluates the role of nineteenth-century British missionaries in the early development of the cross-cultural relationship between China and the English-speaking world. As one of the first generation of British Protestant …
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Denver Riggleman and Former RNC Chairman Michael Steele have a frank conversation about the history of racism in the GOP. When did it start? Did it always exist or were there peaks and valleys? They also talk about the madness of Donald Trump, white nationalism and what it means to still be a member of a political party that is currently marketed t…
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