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Weekly Roundup: A Battle of Fonts and Freedoms: Analyzing Trump's Authoritarianism and Growing Unpopularity
Brad and Dan return to unpack another week of chaos, contradictions, and creeping authoritarianism in American politics. They open with what seems like a small story but carries outsized symbolic wei…
Published on 2 hours ago
Special Episode: When We All Get to Heaven Ep 1
In this special episode of 'Straight White American Jesus,' the host introduces the podcast series 'When We All Get To Heaven,' which chronicles the history of the Metropolitan Community Church of Sa…
Published on 1 day, 16 hours ago
It's in the Code ep 172: “Projecting Enemies”
Josh Hawley argues that “man’s mission” is to combat evil. Defining men in this way makes evil necessary, and it transforms every political, social, and cultural disagreement into a moral conflict of…
Published on 2 days, 13 hours ago
Olivia Nuzzi, Mormon Wives, and the Death of Democracy
Brad is joined by Alan Elrod, CEO and founder of the Pulaski Institute, for a wide-ranging conversation about what happens to democracy when entertainment values replace empathy. They start with the …
Published on 4 days, 1 hour ago
Weekly Roundup: Cultural Crusades: From Hegseth's Boat Attacks to Oklahoma's Classrooms
Brad and Dan return with a packed Weekly Roundup that cuts through the noise of culture war headlines to get at what is really happening in American politics and religion this week. They start with t…
Published on 1 week ago
It's in the Code ep 171: “A Man Like God”
Josh Hawley builds his account on masculinity and manhood on the idea that men are created in God’s image and, as such, are his representatives on earth. But what is Hawley’s God like? What kind of G…
Published on 1 week, 2 days ago
National Guard Shooting Reveals the Right's Dangerous Western Supremacy
Brad takes a hard look at the American right’s response to the recent shooting of two National Guardsmen in Washington, DC, and shows how the rhetoric around the tragedy signals a shift from overt Ch…
Published on 1 week, 4 days ago
SWAJ Rewind: Give Thanks
This week Dan talks about the popular praise and worship song, “Give Thanks With a Grateful Heart.” What is the message of this song? Written as a song of solace and hope, how does it also express an…
Published on 2 weeks ago
Weekly Roundup: Kristi Noem Implicated, Erika Kirk’s Love Language, and Bill McKibben on the Tragedy of American Christianity
Brad and Dan are back from the American Academy of Religion conference in Boston and kick off this episode with some love for the folks they met there before diving into a wild week in American polit…
Published on 2 weeks, 2 days ago
Pulitzer Winner on How the End of the Cold War Created MAGA Populism
Brad Onishi sits down with Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Starr to dig into his new book, American Contradiction, and the idea that the United States is less a shining city on a hill and more a city buil…
Published on 2 weeks, 4 days ago