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Weekly Roundup: Project 2025 in Action: The Indictment of the SPLC
Brad Onishi and Dan Miller discuss the Trump DOJ’s indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center, alleging it defrauded donors by paying informants …
2 months, 1 week ago
It's in the Code ep 188: “Where’s Jesus?”
Josh Hawley tells us he’s giving us a vision of Christian “manhood.” But as we near the end of his book on the subject, is he? In this episode, Dan a…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Trump's Bible Reading is More Than Spectacle - It's Spiritual Terrorism
Trump’s 2 Chronicles Reading and the Politics of Christian Nationalism
Brad Onishi discusses an 84-hour marathon Bible reading at the Museum of the …
2 months, 2 weeks ago
The Sunday Interview: The Rise of the Hype Priest: Judah Smith, Celebrity Faith, and Modern Evangelicalism
In this episode of the Straight White American Jesus Sunday Interview, host Leah Payne speaks with journalist Sam Kestenbaum about his reporting on c…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Weekly Roundup: Trump, Vance, and Just War Theory + Pete Pulp Fiction
Religion scholars Brad Onishi and Dan Miller recap a week of conflict in which Pope Leo criticized war and bombing in a statement widely read as aim…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
SWAJ Rewind: Culture of Life
What does it mean when cultural and religious conservatives proclaim that they affirm a “culture of life?” We know it means that they oppose abortion…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Trump, the Pope, and the Myth of Western Civilization
In this episode, Brad Onishi unpacks the escalating clash between Donald Trump and Pope Leo—from Trump’s public criticism of the Pope to the now-vira…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
The Sunday Interview: Did Jesus Invent Western Morality with Dr. Bart Ehrman
In this episode, Brad Onishi is joined by world-renowned New Testament scholar Dr. Bart Ehrman to explore the origins of the Western moral conscience…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Weekly Roundup: MAGA’s Nuclear Brinksmanship: Is the Coalition Cracking?
In this week's episode, Brad Onishi navigates a high-stakes intersection of nuclear brinkmanship and theological crisis. The discussion centers on th…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
It's in the Code ep 187: “It’s Important Work—As Long As Someone Else Does It”
Josh Hawley tells us that blue-collar and manual labor are the domains of true masculinity. He tells us that they are the path to freedom, and meanin…
2 months, 4 weeks ago