Dec. 17, 2022 - Straight White American Jesus
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| Axis Mundy Axis Mundy You're listening to an Irreverent Podcast. | |
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| Welcome to Straight White American Jesus. | |
| My name is Brad Onishi, faculty at the University of San Francisco. | |
| Our show is hosted in partnership with the Kapp Center UCSB, and I'm here today with my co-host. | |
| I'm Dan Miller, professor of religion and social thought at Landmark College. | |
| Nice to see you, Brad. | |
| You too! | |
| We're recording later than usual, so you all are getting this a little later than usual, but I want to start, first of all, just by saying we, once again, are excited to partner with the Baptist Joint Committee. | |
| We talk a lot about Christian nationalism on this show, and we talk about it almost every week. | |
| The Baptist Joint Committee fights for everyone's religious freedom and it's the home of Christians Against Christian Nationalism, a great campaign that if you are a Christian and looking for a way to fight Christian nationalism, I think the Baptist Joint Committee's work here is really great and you can join that movement. | |
| So, look them up at ChristiansAgainstChristianNationalism.org. | |
| You can sign the statement that they have. | |
| Look up resources to help everyone combat Christian nationalism. | |
| If you're like leading a small group at your church, or if you're somebody who is in a position to teach Sunday school, they have great stuff there, and so on. | |
| So, Baptist Joint Committee, we appreciate them and just want to say, check out their work if you haven't already. | |
| All right, Dan, the other thing we need to say is sorry. | |
| We need to say sorry. | |
| So, last week, I was pretty angry last week. | |
| I got a lot of emails this week that are like, love it when you're angry. | |
| Angry Brad's the best Brad, which I appreciate. | |
| However, one of the reasons I try not to get that riled up often is because when I do, I make mistakes. | |
| And you all know how that goes. | |
| And the mistake that we made last week was to refer to Tish Harrison Warren as Episcopalian, which she is not. | |
| She is part of the Anglican Church of North America. | |
| The Anglican Church of North America is a break-off church, and they're basically against the liberal and progressive politics of the Episcopalian Church. | |
| The Episcopalian Church, Dan, I remember when I was growing up, one of the first gay clergy people that popped up into my cultural landscape was from the Episcopalian Church. | |
| Episcopalian Church has been progressive for a long time, LGBTQ affirming for a long time. | |
| And so for us to say that she was Episcopal was not only incorrect, but it maligned that denomination. | |
| The Anglican Church of North America is much more conservative and much less affirming, as one can tell from Tish Harrison Warren's, Tish Warren, sorry, dyslexia getting the better of me. | |
| I am dyslexic. | |
| I'm not, that's not a joke. | |
| So it is getting the better of me. | |
| So, anyway, as you can tell from her politics, it's quite conservative in comparison to the Episcopalian Church. | |
| So, to all of our Episcopalian listeners, we apologize. | |
| And we know better, Dan. | |
| I don't know about you, but I have family in the ACNA. | |
| I'm very aware of the politics of the Episcopalian Church. | |
| This is just a dumb mistake that we should not have made. | |
| So, anyway. | |
| So, just to, you know, comfort ourselves, she would be really, really upset if she heard that you called her Episcopalian, too. | |
| So, like, at least you managed to, in your angry moments and your heightened emotional dysregulation, you managed to, like, offend, you know, also the offensive people. | |
| So, you're very even-handed in that regard. | |
| So, no, in all seriousness, I didn't catch it when we said it either. | |
| Am also familiar with with the distinction between the two and have engaged people on the both sides of that divide. | |
| So yeah, so thanks for bringing that up. | |
| All right. | |
| So for today, we're going to talk about a gala that was held recently by the Young Republicans that was, in my mind, truly scary. | |
| And we'll talk about why. | |
| We'll talk about DeSantis and Trump a little bit. | |
| Talk about Texas and the desire to create basically a list of trans people in that state, which is terrifying. | |
| And then I think we'll finish, Dan, with, you know, we're coming up on Christmas. | |
| We're getting close. | |
| You talked about Christmas on this week's It's in the Code. | |
| We got to talk about biblical manhood and Christmas, right? | |
| I mean, what would Christmas be without a discussion of a man card and AR-15s and camouflage as certainly the way that one welcomes the baby Jesus into the world. | |
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