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Mattathias Reads The World will say whatever I feel like saying, whenever I feel like recording what I say and broadcasting it publicly. I am often joined by friends and acquaintances who have thoughts worth sharing. It is inspired by James's Crappy Podcast (https://soundcloud.com/jamesgoldberg) and observes the Crappy Podcast promise of providing unedited, unscripted, unvarnished content.
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Mattathias and the ARCH-POETs: #Archtober2020 Reminiscences
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Mattathias is joined by a band of weird and wonderful Mormon poets to share and celebrate their contributions to the ARCH-HIVE collective's 2020 Mormon Art Twitter challenge, #Archtober2020. The blessing of poetry to express what is just beyond reach, the useful vulnerability of sharing one's creations with a circle of friends, and the benefits of …
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Special Episode: A Breaking Public Health Update from Community Health Expert, Dr. Madison Beckstrand
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Out of serious concern about the global spread of a terrifyingly destructive strain of a debilitating and often terminal disease, I've invited the foremost community health expert, Dr. Madison Beckstrand, DA* who helped raise the alarm about the epidemic last year, to share her guidance on how the syndrome currently is spreading through our communi…
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MLK Jr. Day Special Episode: Black History TV Pitch Reel
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Hello, listeners, and thank you for joining us for the first MRtW episode of 2021. For this special holiday episode, I'm joined here on the air by my good friend Mido so that we can discuss Martin Luther King's legacy, the contradiction of being both non-white and non-black in a race-driven country, and then we take a break from our regularly sched…
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Memory and Mourning: Ardis Parshall's "Who We Lost" Pandemic Record
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In preparation for All Souls Day, I met with LDS historian Ardis Parshall to discuss her "Who We Lost" project gathering the names of all the Latter-day Saint deaths to the Flu of 1918-1920. We discuss the role of memory and mourning in connecting us to one another and forming individual identity and resilience in the face of trauma, and how lookin…
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Mattathias Reads "Grace Like Water" by Merrijane Rice, illustrated by Nathan Rice: A Launch Day Special Episode
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SPECIAL BOOK LAUNCH EPISODE! Merrijane Rice, past MRtW guest and widely acclaimed "Queen of the Lit Blitz" celebrates the launch of her second book, "Grace Like Water" with a reading of seven poems from the collection. We are also joined by her son Nathan, who illustrated the book, and who provides insight into the collaborative process of finding …
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Mattathias Reads the Lit Blitz! Episode 9: "Family Tree" by Merrijane Rice
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The much-lauded "Queen of the Lit Blitz" Merrijane Rice joins me to discuss her 2020 Lit Blitz piece, "Family Tree". We discuss the differing benefits of poetry and prose, the similarity of small and large scale family drama and heartache, which leads us to imagine some of the challenges of Heavenly Parenting. I also get the inside scoop on Merrija…
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" The Bottoms of the Mountains" or, yet another Reading of the Book of Jonah
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Today is a good day, although not in this case a good day for breakfast at Denny's, at least for me. But because it is a good day I decided to do one of my favorite things which is to read the book of Jonah again and then to talk about it for an hour. If any of you are into hour long expositions of the book of Jonah, this episode is exactly what yo…
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Records From the Vault: Radio Free Shemlon
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A very generous listener found the following recording in a vault, on a solid gold LP. I was able to play the record back and transfer it to digital format, and was very interested to find on it a broadcast from long, long ago with some startling resonances for our present moment. The record sleeve had a number of strange engavings on it, which my …
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Mattathias Reads the Lit Blitz! Episode 8: “Portal Friends” by Annaliese Lemmon
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Annaliese Lemmon joins me virtually at MRtW Studios to share and discuss her Lit Blitz short story "Portal Friends", (https://lit.mormonartist.net/2020/06/portal-friends-by-annaliese-lemmon/) which explores (and in certain ways, I would argue, improves upon) C. S. Lewis' Narnia through the eyes of an 11-year old LDS girl adjusting to being part of …
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Mapping a Guerrilla Mormonism, with Conor Hilton
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I sit down virtually with The Conor Hilton (https://twitter.com/TheConorHilton (I grew up near tOSU, and learned by experience the value of a definite article!)) to discuss his claim to a guerrilla Mormonism. We discuss historical guerrilla precedents, including my namesakes and his, and then delve into what shapes his aesthetic militancy and radic…
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Mattathias Reads the Lit Blitz! Episode 7: “In the Locker Room at the Temple” by Darlene Young
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I meet digitally with mormon poet Darlene Young to discuss The Association for Mormon Letters, our affection for Utah as native Utahns, road tripping to Berkeley, and her poem “In the Locker Room at the Temple" with all that that entails. We talk about finding Mormon literary communities, the power of having an audience to write for, and Darlene's …
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"No Toil Nor Labor Fear": A Pioneer Day Special Episode
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Jared Forsyth joins me again to discuss the Mormon pioneer legacy, some of the ways we tell the story that cheapen their experience and set impossible expectations for us as we go through our own vale of tears, and some of the ways each of us has learned to honor them better and let their lived experience nourish and direct us. We reflect on Primar…
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Mattathias Reads the Lit Blitz! Episode 6: “Three Generations of Sonder” by Chanel Earl
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In this episode, I am delighted to have another repeated Lit Blitz follower and submitter Chanel Earl join me to read and discuss her short story "Three Generations of Sonder" (https://lit.mormonartist.net/2020/06/three-generations-of-sonder-by-chanel-earl/) which was one of the twelve published pieces in the 2020 Mormon Lit Blitz. We explore some …
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Mattathias Reads the Lit Blitz! Episode 5: “Orpheus Sings to Mary and Martha” by Emily Harris Adams
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In which I sit down (remotely) with Lit Blitz veteran and canonized Latter-day Saint poet Emily Harris Adams to read and discuss her 2020 Lit Blitz piece, "“Orpheus Sings to Mary and Martha” (https://lit.mormonartist.net/2020/06/orpheus-sings-to-mary-and-martha-by-emily-harris-adams/). We discuss grief, love, happy endings, and the importance of be…
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Mattathias Reads the Lit Blitz! Episode 4: "Part Heaven" by Madi Beckstrand
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I have the honor of interviewing the Judge's Choice Winner of the 2020 Mormon Lit Blitz, Madi Beckstrand. She reads us her poem "Part Heaven" (https://lit.mormonartist.net/2020/06/part-heaven-by-madison-beckstrand/) and then we discuss embodied divinity in the particular form of black hair in America, which has suffered long under the oppressive yo…
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Mattathias Reads the Lit Blitz! Episode 3: "Airplanes that Crashed" by Jared Forsyth
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Jared joins us to read his Lit Blitz Piece "Airplanes that Crashed: A Book of Mormon Coloring Book" (https://lit.mormonartist.net/2020/06/airplanes-that-crashed-a-book-of-mormon-coloring-book-by-jared-forsyth/). He also shares thoughts on how the picture book is the perfect form for Nephi-style plainness of speech, references Kylie Nielsen Turley's…
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Mattathias' Travel Guide to the Afterlife! Pt. 1: Hades and Valhalla
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An update on my journey through the depths of the Underworld, and my current port of call in the Feast Halls and Jousting Fields of the King Whose Eye Is Single.
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Mattathias Reads the Lit Blitz! Episode 2: Selina Forsyth's "Resurrection by Easter 2020"
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Selina joins us to read and discuss her Lit Blitz piece, "Resurrection by Easter 2020" (https://lit.mormonartist.net/2020/06/resurrection-by-easter-2020-by-selina-forsyth/ ). She shares some thoughts on poetry, gods we may accidentally begin to worship, the power of scriptural language, the relationship between mental and communal health, and tells…
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Mattathias Reads the Lit Blitz! Episode 1: Final Report (with special guest James Goldberg)
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To celebrate being published as a finalist in the Ninth Annual Mormon Lit Blitz, I'm joined by James Goldberg, a founder of the Lit Blitz, and director of the Mormon Lit Lab, to discuss the contest's history and to hear and discuss my story, "Final Report"
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"Doest thou well to be angry?" Mattathias Reads the Book of Jonah
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In which we spend some time in the belly of a great fish, and ask whether refraining from destroying Ninevah is an appropriate act of mercy.
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Episode 1: "After This Manner Therefore Pray Ye"
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As I launch this podcast into the clouds of silicon for all of you to hear, I begin with a prayer and some thoughts on what it means to pray, and how my own prayers have changed over time.
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