Episodes

April 1, 2024

Not Just Evangelicals: The Christian Nationalism Problem in Mainline Christian Spaces

+ Bonus Content: Conspiracy Theories and the Baltimore Bridge Disaster
March 30, 2024

Weekly Roundup: Trump Endorses Bible Days Before Easter

+ Embryos Get Life Insurance in South Carolina
March 27, 2024

It's In the Code Ep. 92: "A Biblical House of Cards"

Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus content most Mondays, bonus episodes every month, ad-free listening, access to the entire 500-episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/ In this final ...
March 25, 2024

John Birch Society x Today's GOP

Conspiracy, Resentment, Racism, and Christian Nationalism
March 22, 2024

Weekly Roundup: "Some Migrants Aren't Human" Says GOP Frontrunner

+ Christian Nationalism - Smear or Savior?
March 20, 2024

It's In the Code Ep. 91: "So Much for the Holy Spirit"

Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus episodes, ad-free listening, access to the entire 500-episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/ High control Christian communities often claim that th...
March 19, 2024

The Wannabe Warlord Leading the US Into Christendom + Bonus Content

Bonus Content: The Society for American Civic Renewal x John Birch Society
March 13, 2024

It's in the Code Ep. 90: "Direct Relationship with God"

Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus episodes, ad-free listening, access to the entire 500-episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/ One of the effects and purposes of the doctrine that t...
March 11, 2024

The Age of Insurrection w/ David Neiwert

Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus episodes, ad-free listening, access to the entire 500-episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/ From a smattering of ominous right-wing compounds in t...
March 9, 2024

Weekly Roundup: State of Disunion - Contraceptive Nationalism and the Innocent White Christian Woman

Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus episodes, ad-free listening, access to the entire 500-episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/ Brad and Dan begin by discussing the State of the Unio...
March 7, 2024

It's In the Code Ep. 89: "Believe It Or Not"

Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus episodes, ad-free listening, access to the entire 500-episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/ When someone says they “believe” that the Bible is “in...
March 5, 2024

Bonus Ep. 2: That Time Brad Told You About Eternal Torment at Lunch

Brad tells cringy stories from his teenage years in order to make a point: Christian conservatives often start arguments by saying that everyone has a worldview, so everyone is religious. If you don't worship God, they say, t...
March 4, 2024

Brynn Tannehill on Civil War, Trump, and the Violence Ahead in 2024

Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus episodes, ad-free listening, access to the entire 500-episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/ What happens if Trump wins? If he goes to jail before ...
March 1, 2024

Weekly Roundup: SCOTUS and McConnell Surrender to Trump

+ Natural Theology Kills
Feb. 29, 2024

It's In the Code Ep. 88: "The Bible is Historically Flawless"

Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus episodes, ad-free listening, access to the entire 500-episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/ Christian inerrantists, those who claim that the Bible...
Feb. 26, 2024

Talking to Red-Pilled Friends and Loved Ones with Dr. Steven Hassan

Brad welcomes Dr. Steven Hassan to discuss strategies for talking to red-pilled relatives who have gone down the rabbit holes of MAGA-ism, Q-Anon, and other forms of high-control religion and conspiracy. The author of the Cul...
Feb. 24, 2024

Weekly Roundup: Embryos are People Now?

Brad and Dan begin by discussing the shocking decision from the Alabama Supreme Court proclaiming embryos to be human beings. They dissect the legal, philosophical, theological, and political dynamics of the ruling - and brea...
Feb. 21, 2024

It's In the Code Ep. 87: "With All Apologies"

The doctrine of inerrancy isn’t convincing philosophically, theologically, or factually. Yet it remains a cornerstone of belief within a conservative Christian circles. What explains its persistence? In this episode, Dan begi...
Feb. 19, 2024

Dan Partland - Director of God and Country + (Bonus Content)

Brad's interview with Dan Partland, director of God and Country, a new documentary that examines Christian nationalism in the United States. Based partly on Katherine Stewart's The Power Worshippers, it includes many prominen...
Feb. 16, 2024

Moscow Mules: Trump. Nato. Putin. MAGA Mike. Tucker Gets Tuckered.

Brad and Dan begin by discussing Trump's comments on NATO and how they reflect eight years of Putin transforming the American Right's view of America's role in the world. This leads to an extended discussion of Mike Johnson a...
Feb. 14, 2024

It's In the Code Ep. 86: "The Last Line of Defense"

What do those who insist that the Bible is inerrant, literally “without error,” do if they’re finally confronted with contradictions or errors in the biblical text that no one can plausibly explain? Does this lead them to aba...
Feb. 12, 2024

We Are Living in the Klan's America Part II + Bonus Content: Abolish the National Prayer Breakfast

Bonus Content: Abolish the National Prayer Breakfast
Feb. 10, 2024

Weekly Roundup: Walk by Faith, Not by Impeachment Votes (or Immunity Claims)

Brad and Dan take a winding tour through a bundle of issues: the GOP's failed impeachment vote; the lampooning of their own bill in the Senate; Red Shirts beating a Latino man live on Fox News; Elise Stefanik saying she would...