Weekly Roundup: This is America
Brad and Dan begin with extended analysis of the testimony of the Capitol Police officers before the 1/6 committee. Their words are shocking and harrowing. They reflect on the words hurled at them that day as they were being attacked, words marked by the racism, xenophobia, Trumpism, and Christianity of the capitol rioters. They then […]
Ex-Evangelical Apologetics: Are Leavers Broken and/or Just Giving Up?
Response to Skillet’s John Cooper
New Age Spirituality, MAGA Nation, and Conspirituality
Brad speaks once again with Dr. Susannah Crockford. They discuss her new book, Ripples of the Universe, which provides an ethnographic account of New Age spiritual practitioners in Sedona, Arizona. Dr. Crockford explains the various spiritual beliefs, cosmologies, and rituals that makeup the peculiar and dazzling form of spirituality in the Arizona desert. She also […]
Weekly Roundup: COVID, Conspiracies, and Anti-Vaxxers
+1/6 Select Committee and Texas KKK in Schools
Biblical Commas? On Controlling Textual, National, and Physical Bodies
Response to Owen Strachan’s Misguided Biblicism
White Feminine Innocence, the Body Politic, and Contraceptive Nationalism
+ Catholicism’s White Supremacy Problem
Weekly Roundup: The Country is at Stake
Trump’s Reichstag Moment, Texas Democrats Try to Save Voting Rights, and Child Tax Credits as Good
Why Non-Denominational Churches Scare Me
Brad discusses a new article at WaPo on the Trumpism and Christian nationalism of non-denominational churches. He points out that this is not a new phenomenon to anyone who has been paying attention He points out that the identity of non-denominational Christian might replace the Evangelical identity for some people–which helps make sense of recent […]
The Maliciousness of Christian Xenophobia
On Paul Gosar, Nick Fuentes, Timothy Keller, Ralph Drollinger, and More
Weekly Roundup: Genocide is Not Good Actually
The Cruel Nihilism of the Right’s “Brain Trust”