Episodes

Dec. 24, 2021

Weekly Roundup: Mad Mirth and the War on Christmas

+ Americafest and Joe Manchin Gives Everyone Coal for Christmas
Dec. 21, 2021

White Evangelicals and Mass Incarceration

Law, Order, and Divine Punishment
Dec. 18, 2021

Weekly Roundup: Texting to Stop a Coup

+ The Peculiar Path(os) of Kyrsten Sinema
Dec. 14, 2021

Law, Order, and Romans 13

Debunking Myths on the "Obey the Law" Scripture
Dec. 11, 2021

Weekly Roundup: Christmas Wars

+ Mark Meadows Bombshell and SCOTUS On Religious Liberty
Dec. 6, 2021

Undercover in MAGA Nation

Amanda Moore spent a year undercover attending rallies, events, and conferences in the trenches of MAGA Nation. She hung out with Proud Boys, got up close and personal with QAnon grifters, and got invited to join a fascist grassroots organization while attending a Turning Point USA event. She was also present at January 6th. She joins Brad to share what she saw and heard. They play clips she recorded secretly while at these events and talk about why we should all be worried about the future of t...
Nov. 30, 2021

God Save the Men: Evangelical (Toxic) Masculinity with Professor Kristin du Mez

Brad and Dan are joined by Professor Kristin du Mez, an expert on evangelical masculinity and culture. They discuss why evangelicals imagine Jesus to be a heterosexual strong man, gender complementarity, #churchtoo, and the damaging effects of patriarchal church cultures.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/straightwhiteamericanjesu/messageSupport this podcast: <a href="https://anchor.fm/straightwhiteamericanjesu/support" rel="payment">https://anchor.fm/straightwhiteamericanjesu/support</a>
Nov. 26, 2021

The Myth of the Persecuted Christian and the Inverted Golden Rule

Brad speaks with Dennison University political scientist Paul Djupe. They discuss Djupe's findings that those Christians who live in homogenous Christian communities are most likely to believe that Democrats, atheists, and others are trying to take their rights away. They also discuss data that shows a large majority of Evangelicals are willing to strip rights from nonbelievers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https:/...
Nov. 24, 2021

The Myth of the Christian Nation

Dan speaks with author and constitutional lawyer Andrew Seidel. They discuss his new book, "The Founding Myth," and dissect the idea that the USA is a Christian nation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://swaj.supportingcast.fm
Nov. 23, 2021

Confronting the Sh*ttiness of Paul

In his new book, Profaning Paul, USC Professor Cavan Concannon takes an unflinching look at the letters of Paul through the metaphor of excrement--or shit. "The letters of Paul have been used to support and condone a host of evils over the span of more than two millennia: racism, slavery, imperialism, misogyny, and anti-Semitism, to name a few. Following the lead of feminist, queer, and minoritized scholarship, Profaning Paul asks what would happen if we stopped recycling Paul’s writings. By pr...
Nov. 16, 2021

Christians Against Christian Supremacy -with Dr. Obery Hendricks

A life long social activist, Obery Hendricks is one of the foremost commentators on the intersection of religion and political economy in America. He is the most widely read and perhaps the most influential African American biblical scholar writing today. Dr. Hendricks’ appearances include CNN, MSNBC, CBS, Fox News, Fox Business News, the Discovery Channel, PBS, BBC, among others. Dr. Hendricks has served in the Religion and Foreign Policy Working Group at the U. S. Department of State under Sec...
Nov. 13, 2021

Weekly Roundup: Big Bird Was Immunized

Brad and Dan begin by discussing the case of Aaron Rodgers, who was recently found out not to have been vaccinated. They discuss the various components at play in the case--from becoming an anti-vaxxer wiithout realizing it, to blaming the "woke mob" for cancel culture, and the politics of scientific authority. This leads to a discussion of Ted Cruz's criticism of Big Bird's immunization. Yes, Big Bird. Staying with Ted Cruz, Brad and Dan then analyze how and why our nation's freeways and other...
Nov. 11, 2021

Mild at Heart: Love, Sex, and Masculinity After Purity Culture: Ep 8

Christian Nationalism is the Original Purity Culture
Nov. 8, 2021

Reading Evangelicals

Race, Class, and Politics at the Evangelical Bookstore
Nov. 6, 2021

Weekly Roundup: Trumpism Without Trump

Brad and Dan begin by debating the fallout of the gubernatorial election in Virginia. Dan points out that historically the party in power doesn't perform well in midterm and off-year elections. This is especially true in Virginia. Brad takes a different approach by discussing the ways that the GOP has made extremism mainstream in the past and how Glenn Youngkin, who ran on a Trumpian platform without Trump as the mascot of his campaign, may be the next iteration of making racism and prejudice "r...
Nov. 4, 2021

Parenting After Purity Culture

+ You are Revolutionary
Nov. 1, 2021

Gay Activism and the Christian Gaze

Dr. Brett Krutsch is the editor of the Revealer and the Director of the Center for Religion and Media at NYU, He speaks to Brad about his book, "Dying to Be Normal: Gay Martyrs and the Transformation of American Sexual Politics." In Dying to Be Normal, Krutzsch argues that gay activists have in the past enacted a political strategy to present gays as similar to the country's dominant class of white, straight Christians. Through an examination of publicly mourned gay deaths, Krutzsch counters the...
Oct. 30, 2021

Weekly Roundup: America on Trial

+ Does Evangelical Just Mean Republican?