Excavations with Connie Chen

Connie Chen

Conversations at the margins of faith. Excavations interviews scholars, survivors, and spiritual truth-tellers doing the work of recovering what religion buried: centering marginalized voices, bodies, and the theologies that were never supposed to survive. Hosted by Connie Chen.

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Excavations with Connie Chen

Episodes (6)

Sat May 9th Faithful Without God: Marxism, Christianity, and Getting Free
Apr 3rd Queer God, Queer Sex: A Conversation with Ciarra Jones on Bodies, Pleasure, and Divine Love
Mar 12th The Shame Cycle: Sex, Sin, and Scripture

Excavations with Connie Chen

May 9, 2026
1 hours
47 MB

What does it mean to live by Christian ethics without God at the center? What happens when Marxist theory meets the bars of Rikers Island, the wards of outpatient psychiatric care, and the walls of San Quentin? In this episode of Excavations, Connie sits down with Chris Alfonso (Jean-Paul Fartre), a Marxist scholar, organizer, and abolitionist, to trace the surprising theological architecture inside radical thought. They explore the structural parallels between Hegel's dialectic and Christian eschatology, why Jesus might be history's most compelling militant communist, the difference between Marxism as critique and Marxism as state religion, and...

Excavations with Connie Chen

Faithful Without God: Marxism, Christianity, and Getting Free

Connie Chen

00:00 -01:08:53