Weekly Roundup: SCROTUS
Brad and Dan are back together. They begin by discussing the validity and significance of Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony at the J6 hearing this week. Brad implores us not to get distracted by claims that her account of certain episodes is being disputed by off-the-record sources who won’t testify under oath in front of the nation. […]
It’s In the Code, Ep. 10: Love the Sinner Hate the Sin
In this episode, Dan decodes a phrase that A LOT of listeners have contacted him about: the claim that Christians are called to “love the sinner, but hate the sin.” What does this mean? What kind of Christian claim is this? Why does it strike such a nerve among those who hear it? Dan tackles […]
The Stay at Home Daughter Movement and the SBC
Brad is joined by writer R.L. Stollar who discusses his recent article on Voddie Baucham and the Stay at Home Daughter Movement. Baucham may not be a household name-but he was nearly elected the president of the largest Protestant denomination in the country just over a week ago. According to Stollar, Bacuham is a pillar […]
Weekly Roundup: The Texas GOP Goes Full Fascist
+ SCOTUS Makin You Pay
It’s In the Code, Ep. 9: Remember Who You Are
In this episode, Dan decodes the admonition to “remember who you are,” as well as the related admonition to “remember whose you are” and the question “what would Jesus do”. What are these admonitions intended to convey? What do they presuppose about authority, control, and Christian identity? Decoding these admonitions helps us to answer these […]
Is It Possible to Be Non-Religious in the United States?
The Secular Paradox
Weekly Roundup: Go East to Get a Pardon, Young Man.
+ AR-15 Christology
Special Episode: Patriot Front at Pride in Idaho
2 Minutes From a Massacre
It’s In the Code, Ep. 8: It’s a Relationship, Not a Religion
Building from the previous episode, Dan explores what’s going on when people say that Christianity is “a religion, not a relationship,” when salvation is understood as requiring a “personal relationship” with Jesus, and so on. Like so many other uses of popular religious language, this language tells us a great deal about the identity of […]
Christian Nationalists and the Holy Gun Crusade
In his recent article at Religion Dispatches, historian Thomas Lecaque writes: In the wake of every mass shooting in this country, we have a brief moment where we talk about the guns used and the need for gun control. And then rapidly, the gun lobby, conservative politicians, Second Amendment absolutists, and the rest find every conceivable other […]