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Straight White American Jesus
An in-depth examination of the culture and politics of Christian Nationalism and Evangelicalism by two ex-evangelical ministers-turned-religion professors. If you have ever wondered what social and historical forces led white evangelicals to usher Donald Trump into the White House this is the show for you. As former insiders and critical scholars of religion, Dan Miller and Bradley Onishi have a unique perspective on the Religious Right. Guests have included Chrissy Stroop, R. Marie Griffith…
Episodes
Straight White American JesusWeekly Round Up: The Civility Rights Movement
Brad and Dan begin this MLK weekend show by going over the outlines of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, the Selma marches, and King’s missives to White moderates…
Straight White American JesusYou’re Not Welcome Here: Religion, Politics, Identity Ep. 2
What do politicians like Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and Bernie Sanders have in common? They’re critical of “identity politics.” In this episode, we’ll take…
Straight White American JesusJ6 One Year Later, Ep 2: The Radical Right Shows Up
Brad speaks with journalist and researcher Teddy Wilson, who has spent a decade covering the Radical Right in the United States. Teddy describes the J6 rioter…
Straight White American JesusWeekly Round Up: J6 Past, Present, Future
Brad and Dan begin this J6 anniversary episode by zooming in on certain religious elements manifest at the Insurrection. Dan decodes the various Braveheart…
Straight White American JesusYou Don't Belong Here: Religion, Politics, Identity Ep. 1
On the first episode in this series, Dan Miller explains why identity politics gets a bad rap and why that's a mistake. He introduces basic concepts in…
Straight White American JesusJ6 ONE YEAR LATER, Ep. 1: Christian Supremacy and Holy War - with Sarah Posner
In the first installment of J6 One Year Later, Brad speaks with the journalist Sarah Posner. Sarah discusses the various aspects of Christian supremacy and…
Straight White American JesusWeekly Roundup: Alpha Male Anti Vaxxers
Brad and Dan kickoff this New Year's Day roundup with a look at the false binary anti-vaxxers use to criticize the COVID vaccine and put forth a bad argument…
Straight White American JesusChristian Nationalism: The Principles, the Statistics, the Threat- with Samuel Perry
In an interview from early 2020, Brad talks with Dr. Samuel Perry, co-author of Taking America Back for God and a leading scholar on the phenomenon of…
Straight White American JesusThe Evangelical Anti-Vaccine Movement 50 Years in the Making
Brad speaks with scholar Mark Fugitt whose recent work explores the various sources and factors in evangelical opposition to the COVID vaccine. He provides the…
Straight White American JesusWeekly Roundup: Mad Mirth and the War on Christmas
Brad and Dan begin by discussing how Joe Manchin is giving everyone coal for Christmas, even though coal workers want him to vote for the Build Back Better…
Straight White American JesusThe Proto-History of the Religious Right: the KKK
In an interview recorded in 2019, Brad talks with Dr. Kelly J. Baker, author of the award-winning book "Gospel According to the Klan." They talk about how and…
Straight White American JesusWhite Evangelicals and Mass Incarceration
Brad speaks with Aaron Griffith, Assistant Professor of History at Whitworth University. They discuss his book, God's Law and Order: The Politics of Punishment…
Straight White American JesusWeekly Roundup: Texting to Stop a Coup
Brad and Dan begin by discussing the text messages to Mark Meadows revealed by the J6 Select Committee. They dig into why this confirms all the worries we had…
Straight White American JesusDeconstruction: 2021's Hottest Sexy AF Trend
Brad responds to pastor Matt Chandler's claim that deconstruction is only for those who were never real Christians in the first place. Brad dissects Chandler's…
Straight White American JesusLaw, Order, and Romans 13
Robert Mason is a biblical scholar whose recent work focuses on Romans 13. This passage of the New Testament has been frequently used (and abused) by authority…
Straight White American JesusWeekly Roundup: Christmas Wars
Brad begins by reviewing the bombshell document on Trump's plan to commandeer a recount of the 2020 election by using the military and other government…
Straight White American JesusMild at Heart: Love, Sex, and Masculinity After Purity Culture: Ep 10
On the final installment of Mild at Heart Brad discusses how purity culture taught him to treat his body as an enemy that his mind was in charge of…
Straight White American JesusUndercover 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…
Straight White American JesusWeekly Roundup: Dying on the Altar of Handheld Killing Machines
Brad and Dan are back after a week off. They begin by discussing SCOTUS and the very real possibility of Roe v. Wade being overturned. Dan distills the…
Straight White American JesusGod Save the Men: Evangelical (Toxic) Masculinity with Professor Kristin Kobes du Mez
Brad and Dan are joined by Professor Kristin Kobes du Mez, author of Jesus and John Wayne, and an expert on evangelical masculinity and culture. They discuss…
Straight White American JesusThe 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…
Straight White American JesusThe 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…
Straight White American JesusConfronting 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…
Straight White American JesusWeekly Roundup: One God, One Country, One Leader - On Leaving the Realm of Democracy
Brad and Dan discuss the censuring of Rep. Paul Gosar for his tweet depicting him as an anime character killing Rep AOC. This leads to a bold, but…
Straight White American JesusMild at Heart: Love, Sex, and Masculinity After Purity Culture: Ep 9
On Mourning the One and the lessons about love you never learn in church. Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus episodes, ad-free listening, access to the…
Straight White American JesusChristians 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…
Straight White American JesusWeekly 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…
Straight White American JesusMild at Heart: Love, Sex, and Masculinity After Purity Culture: Ep 8
Brad uses recent comments by Josh Hawley to talk about what people mean when they say that the country (and the church) needs to return to masculinity. Brad…
Straight White American JesusReading Evangelicals
Brad's spirited and at times contentious interview with Daniel Silliman, the news editor for Christianity Today and the author of Reading Evangelicals:: How…
Straight White American JesusWeekly 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…
Straight White American JesusParenting After Purity Culture
Brad takes a break from Mild at Heart to talk to writer, podcaster, and organizer Cindy Wang Brandt, the person behind Parenting Forward. Cindy discusses her…
Straight White American JesusGay 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…
Straight White American JesusWeekly Roundup: America on Trial
Brad and Dan begin by discussing three trials happening right now: the Charlottesville Unite the Right Trial, the Kenosha Shooter Trial, and the Murder of…
Straight White American JesusMild at Heart: Love, Sex, and Masculinity After Purity Culture: Ep 7
Why does love feel like death? Brad continues to reflect on the soulmate myth and purity culture's vision of love. He analyzes how the model of love in these…
Straight White American JesusThe Denomination Manufacturing the Culture Wars
Calvary Chapel started in Southern California in the 1960s. From the beginning, the aesthetic was laid-back, casual, and welcoming--the type of place barefoot…
Straight White American JesusWeekly Roundup: Bad Fathers, Nation-Building, and the End of the World
Brad and Dan begin discussing the MAGA freakout over Mayor Pete's paternity leave. They use this to ask what kind of families and what kind of fathers…
Straight White American JesusMild at Heart: Love, Sex, and Masculinity After Purity Culture: Ep 6
Brad shifts to the theme of love and explains the toxicity of the soulmate myth in purity culture. Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus episodes, ad-free…
Straight White American JesusThe Real and Present Danger of Male Supremacist Terrorism
Alex DiBranco is Executive Director and Founder at Institute for Research on Male Supremacism. Alex stops by to discuss "Male Supremacist Terrorism as a Rising…
Straight White American JesusWeekly Roundup: Pledge Allegiance to the January 6th Insurrection Flag
Brad and Dan begin by discussing a rally for VA gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin where supporters pledged allegiance to a flag carried at the January 6th…
Straight White American JesusMild at Heart: Love, Sex, and Masculinity After Purity Culture: Ep 5
Brad discusses the fact that masculinity is often a performance for other men. Men fear what other men think of them, creating the need to constantly live up…
Straight White American JesusThe Rise and Fall of the Mars Hill Podcast
Brad speaks with Dr. Jessica Johnson, research fellow at the College of William and Mary and author of Biblical Porn: Affect, Labor, and Pastor Mark Driscoll's…
Straight White American JesusWeekly Roundup: MAGA Conservatives vs "Non American Americans"
Brad and Dan begin by discussing the Senate Judiciary Committee's findings on how Trump sought to overturn the election by pressuring the DOJ. Dan relates…
Straight White American JesusMild at Heart: Love, Sex, and Masculinity After Purity Culture: Ep 4
Brad shares an episode from his deconstruction when he began to date again. It was the first time he was out of church and single since he converted. What…
Straight White American JesusWhy Will No One Listen to Ex-Evangelicals?
Blake Chastain, host of #Exvangelical and Powers and Principalities, and the author of a recent piece on the recent Christianity Today podcast on the downfall…
Straight White American JesusWeekly Roundup: White Discomfort is a Powerful Weapon
Brad and Dan discuss American values in relation to the ongoing debates among Democrats about the Biden administration's infrastructure bill. They discuss why…
Straight White American JesusMild at Heart: Love, Sex, and Masculinity After Purity Culture: Ep 3
Brad continues his analysis of sex and masculinity in purity culture. He focuses on how it teaches men to hate themselves twice. First, they hate themselves…
Straight White American JesusKissing Cousins: Biblical Inerrancy + Constitutional Originalism
Constitutional Originalism is the idea that one should read the Constitution, not interpret it. It endeavors to implement the "original" intent of the…
Straight White American JesusWeekly Roundup: The Blueprint for a Coup
Brad and Dan begin by discussing Trump and why exploring the ongoing revelations of the January 6th is more than just archival mining. The second major topic…
Straight White American JesusMild at Heart: Love, Sex, and Masculinity After Purity Culture: Ep 2
Brad discusses the strange contradiction at the heart of purity culture's vision of masculinity: You are a sexual savage that has a near uncontrollable libido…
Straight White American JesusChristian Nationalism as National Body Dysphoria
Brad speaks to his co-host Dan Miller about Miller's new book, Queer Democracy: Desire, Dysphoria, and the Body Politic. Dan explains why the metaphor of the…
Straight White American JesusWeekly Roundup: Justice for J6 and Moral Responsibility
Dan and special guest Blake begin by discussing the Babylon Bee, and the anti-censorship bill in Florida. They explore how misinformation is disseminated…
Straight White American JesusMild at Heart: Love, Sex, and Masculinity After Purity Culture: Intro and Ep. 1
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Straight White American JesusSatanic Panic, Then and Now
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Straight White American JesusWeekly Roundup: 9/11, COVID, and American Freedom
Brad and Dan begin by discussing Biden's sweeping new vaccine mandates and measures. They explore the right-wing response to the measures in comparison with…
Straight White American JesusEx-Evangelical Apologetics: Vaccines
Brad refutes the idea that mandating vaccines is un-American and anti-Christian. Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus episodes, ad-free listening, access…
Straight White American JesusFree Britney (from the Evangelicals)!
Brad speak with Ryan Stollar, expert on child protection and a Christian homeschooling survivor. Ryan shares his research on the evangelical and ex-evangelical…
Straight White American JesusWeekly Roundup: The Antebellum South
Brad and Dan begin by discussing the slate of new laws in Texas: Abortion: The six-week abortion ban that includes a 10k bounty for anyone involved. Handheld…
Straight White American JesusEmergency Re-Release: Abortion, Religion, and Texas
A re-release of Dan’s interview with Professor R. Marie Griffith, author of Moral Combat: How Sex Divided American Christians and Fractured American Politics…
Straight White American JesusEx-Evangelical Apologetics: Stand for the Flag, Kneel for the Cross
On another installment of Ex-Evangelical Apologetics Brad takes on the mantra, "I stand for the flag and kneel for the cross." By looking back to the New…
Straight White American JesusWhite Christian Supremacy vs. Multi-Racial Democracy
Dr. Liliana Mason is faculty at Johns Hopkins University and author of Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity. In a new article, Activating…