{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftent-talks.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fyoho-zoomposium-VZs4iYOw","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Black Magic in White Houses with Backhouse and Beck","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/0be6b1a1-f64c-4913-b741-f2a2cb5f7908/889a39b6-1397-4250-9994-6011388e7b18/tent-talks-2.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/86e7806f-c0d8-4201-b5b9-ad6dbf5615de\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"Black Magic in White Houses with Backhouse and Beck\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"Dr Richard Beck joins Stephen Backhouse to help launch his latest publication \"Black Magic in White Houses\". Politics is not called the ‘dark arts’ for nothing. Wherever one finds groups and individuals intent on forcing their agenda through the system, silencing their opponents, or decimating their foes with lethal violence, one finds shades of black magic. The essay is about the way we all imagine this sort of power in our churches, corporations and countries whether we mean to or not. It is published as a YoHo Journal, and it was they who sponsored the event and kindly let us release this recording. As befitting a bunch of theology pirates, there is a language warning!"}