Reviews - Page 9 | Straight White American Jesus

Well-researched

Thoroughly enjoy listening to this podcast. It always has insightful thoughts and ideas, and it is thoroughly researched. I've found myself coming back to listen often over the past 2 years.

isw777
March 31, 2022

Silicon Valley episode

I’m from the Bay Area and I can relate to this episode! It’s so true. Love your show, thanks for all the hard work you do!

crystalavx
March 29, 2022

Excellent analysis

I came here from #UNFTR, and am now an avid regular listener. Excellent critical analysis, insightful, very very interesting podcast.

Usergdhdu$;
March 22, 2022

Important and necessary…the best podcast on my list

I’m a huge fan and will do whatever I can to promote SWAJ.

N/A217
March 19, 2022

Well researched and informative. Host is intelligent, genuine, & concerned about the greater good while bringing truthful information to the forefront of major issues facing our country & society as a whole.

*CanBeU*
March 17, 2022

Brilliant

It’s a hard to say which I love more but swaj is at the top of my Fabre pods. So smart and compelling

Jejsneskjd
March 14, 2022

Excellent

Excellent content and interviewing skills. Facilitates a granular understanding from the guests. Special attention to the recent March 2022 Sarah Ricardi-Swartz interview. After I listened to this interview I checked out her first interview on this podcast May 2021. I also checked out some other interviews of hers. Of note, there is an marked urgency in her voice today that does not exist in her previous interviews!

pkwilde
March 7, 2022

Great podcast!

This is a great and informative podcast that doesn’t pull punches in evaluating both our troubled US history as well as current political divisions. Their pieces on evangelicalism help listeners understand the actual history and basis of this group and how they have been led to support the GOP and align/be absorbed by White Christian Nationalism. I always come away feeling they have widened my understanding of current events.

Don Elser
Feb. 10, 2022

Thank you!

Great show. Great guests. A growing understanding of how America has found itself in such political crisis is a must-listen-to. PLEASE PUT LINKS IN YOUR SHOW NOTES, GUYS! In order to better understand and spread the word is essential, so please include links to authors, guests, books, and relevant articles!!!

Sheltered Baby-boomer
Feb. 7, 2022

Great show

I recently found the podcast and enjoy every episode. I think you two strike a good tone. Sharing your knowledge of our current developing spiritual and religious expression in our culture and country in a non emotional, nonjudgmental informed way…and I love it.

Real mandorla
Jan. 29, 2022

Great Depth of knowledge into topics

Topics actually circle back and spiral to bring you deeper into the connective tissue of related stories, policies, and ideologies. I like the supporting context behind current event topics. I’m 10 episodes back from current and was hooked after about 3.

Tango2SNFU
Jan. 16, 2022

Connecting dots

This podcast helps make sense of a lot of things, and establishes connections that often go unnoticed. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve said “No (freaking) wonder!” or “How the heck did I not see this?!” as I’ve listened. Fascinating, thorough, and timely, I learn something new every episode.

Aliegrace0319
Jan. 8, 2022

I wish I could get everyone to listen to this

Absolutely amazing in every way. Always covers exactly what needs to be said and explains it so well. Great guests. Great insights. So happy I found this.

MNClements925
Jan. 5, 2022

I’m going to listen to more

I’ve had the chance to listen to a couple episodes of this podcast now and I’m really intrigued to learn more!

DSH Nathan
Dec. 30, 2021

So helpful

Listening through the Mild at Heart series has been so helpful for me. Most specifically Brad’s repeated promise that we are not alone! I am one of those men that tends to minimize my experience growing up in fundamentalism. I started going to therapy for other reasons and am constantly discovering ways that my childhood in evangelicalism continues to influence my relationships with my spouse, others, and the divine. Thank you Brad and Dan for addressing these topics. I also thoroughly enjoy the interviews and riffs you guys go off on. This is always the first podcast I put on as soon as a new episode drops. Thanks for all the hard work!

argh_letmesendthereview
Dec. 24, 2021

I’m Not Alone!

I didn’t know the name for what I was going through; I just knew everyone that “shunned” me and shook their heads at how I’d “lost my faith” were wrong. The isolation was close to unbearable. I lost the ministry of which I was the founder and I can’t sit in a church here because I can’t ignore what I see as blatant indoctrination. This podcast is so important because it puts a name to what happens when we seek truth. I’m still a Jesus person and these days living out the fact that my faith doesn’t fall apart at the onset of questions and reasoning. That you so much for this podcast !!!

idrathernotsa
Dec. 22, 2021

Hitting the nail on the head

This podcast addresses subjects I have been thinking about my entire life. From a childhood of evangelicalism, to study at a well known Bible college, and ultimately the deconstruction of my faith as an adult, I have found these conversations to be insightful and valuable while continuing to think about the role of American evangelicalism on my life, it’s role in the lives of those around me and society at large.

Craig Hahnlen
Dec. 19, 2021

Like Whoah!

As someone who grew up in conservative, religious Texas, this podcast has helped me feel like I’m not alone in all the things I struggled with growing up and even as an adult. The Mild at Heart Series - incredible!

Lyndsi_in_Italy
Dec. 18, 2021

Amazing show

Love this. I grew up Pentecostal and turned out trans. So much of what is talked about here affected me in all the worst ways. It’s comforting to listen to someone who sees so many of the same issues I did growing up.

mhale85
Dec. 17, 2021

Thoroughly researched & handled with care

This show was one of the first podcasts I found along my deconstruction journey. I very much appreciate the blend of researched doctrine, theology and religion with personal experience the hosts and their guests bring to the conversation. I find great value in the historical perspective spoken to and while I also enjoy some other deconstruction resources for their personal accounts, this show layers in so much depth and education that I find myself learning new things and affirming my own stance on faith ( or lack there of) with copious resources at my aide. Bravo

grace32
Dec. 16, 2021

Excellent podcast

I listen to every episode. Very informative.

janashellbug
Dec. 11, 2021

Great show!

I love this show, it helps me keep up with the alt-right, and know what terrible stuff they are up to, along with the myths they tell themselves.

Wanger Hilton
Dec. 6, 2021

Essential guide to the extremist white Christian threat to our democracy

Have learned so much about the white male ChristoFascist threat to our democracy - since the founding fathers through the Civil War, Jim Crow and accelerated since Brown v Board and then Reagan. We are in a fight for our survival.

EHA2
Nov. 10, 2021

Good work

Nice podcast. Could you guys stop saying “sort of” and “kind of” all the time? Was the violence on 6 January really “sort of reprehensible?” I personally find it reprehensible—no qualifier needed. Lots of other instances of the same. But good work—I realize how hard this must be! Congrats!

Syntax Babe
Oct. 30, 2021