March 24, 2020 - Straight White American Jesus
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| AXIS MUNDY AXIS MUNDY Hello friends, it's Monday, March 23rd, and we are all sort of reckoning with the coronavirus pandemic and trying to cope. | |
| Just an update, this week I'm going to have an episode with author and journalist Asha Daya, who has gone from an evangelical worship leader to a feminist author and reproductive rights activist in just a few years. | |
| It's an amazing interview. | |
| On Friday, Dan and I are going to have a great episode on what I'm calling the first evangelical president, Jimmy Carter, and why, surprisingly, it would be lovely to have him back in the Oval Office. | |
| We're going to compare him to Donald Trump and just kind of see Just for now, a very brief reflection. | |
| You know, I've been thinking a lot about all the things that we often take for granted. | |
| or the evangelical was quite the opposite of what we think of as evangelical today. | |
| Just for now, a very brief reflection. | |
| You know, I've been thinking a lot about all the things that we often take for granted. | |
| You know, all of us are stuck in the house and we're missing out on small things like weekly lunch with a friend, big things like birthday parties and celebrations, and even bigger things like a wedding. | |
| I know some people are even having to think about how to bury their loved ones during this time. | |
| And it made me think of a quote from Gerald Murphy. | |
| Gerald Murphy was part of the Lost Generation in the 1920s. | |
| He was very close to F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Fitzgerald and other members of the Lost Generation. | |
| And, you know, he was very privileged, but inevitably, as happens in life, despite how much money you have, people get sick, people have a hard time. | |
| And that happened with him. | |
| His friend Zelda Fitzgerald went to an asylum because she was mentally ill. | |
| One of his children went to a sanatorium because he was very, very sick and then died. | |
| And then of course the Great Depression happened and there was kind of worldwide suffering. | |
| Here's a quote he gave to F. Scott Fitzgerald back in those days. | |
| I remember saying to him that for me only the invented part of life was satisfying, only the unrealistic part. | |
| Things happen to you, sickness, birth, Zelda and Prangens, which is the asylum, Patrick in the sanatorium, Father Weyberg's death. | |
| These things were realistic and you couldn't do anything about them. | |
| Do you mean you don't accept those things? | |
| Scott asked. | |
| Scott is F. Scott Fitzgerald. | |
| I replied that of course I accepted them, but I didn't feel they were the important things, really. | |
| And I know this could be taken the wrong way, as if birth and death aren't important, but I don't think that's what he's saying. | |
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