Confronting 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. “The letters of Paul have been used to support and condone a host of evils over the span of more than two millennia: racism, slavery, imperialism, misogyny, and anti-Semitism, to […]
Weekly Roundup: One God, One Country, One Leader – On Leaving the Realm of Democracy
One God, One Country, One Leader
Mild at Heart: Love, Sex, and Masculinity After Purity Culture: Ep 9
Mourning the One
Christians 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 most widely read and perhaps the most influential African American biblical scholar writing today. Dr. Hendricks’ appearances include CNN, MSNBC, CBS, Fox News, Fox Business News, the Discovery Channel, […]
Weekly 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 in the case–from becoming an anti-vaxxer wiithout realizing it, to blaming the “woke mob” for cancel culture, and the politics of scientific authority. This leads to a […]
Mild at Heart: Love, Sex, and Masculinity After Purity Culture: Ep 8
Christian Nationalism is the Original Purity Culture
Reading Evangelicals
Race, Class, and Politics at the Evangelical Bookstore
Weekly 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 in midterm and off-year elections. This is especially true in Virginia. Brad takes a different approach by discussing the ways that the GOP has made extremism mainstream in the […]
Parenting After Purity Culture
+ You are Revolutionary
Gay 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 Normal: Gay Martyrs and the Transformation of American Sexual Politics.” In Dying to Be Normal, Krutzsch argues that gay activists have in the past enacted […]