Weekly Roundup: Jesus Died to Forgive Your Loans
Brad and Dan begin the episode by discussing the student loan forgiveness announcement the Biden administration made this week. They ask whether it went far enough and then track the responses from the GOP, who uniformly denounced it as irresponsible. Unfortunately for them we have the receipts about how much they received in forgiven PPP […]
It’s In the Code, Ep. 17: Spiritual Warfare 2.0
“Spiritual Warfare 2.0” How do appeals to “spiritual warfare” relate to the social and political struggles of the flesh-and-blood world? How do different kinds of Christian communities and traditions understand the relation between spiritual forces and the flesh-and-blood world? And what role does racial identity play in shaping understandings and expressions of “spiritual warfare”? Dan […]
Evangelicals, Trump, and Civil War (Re-release)
From the archives, an episode from 2019 centered on how fundamentalist religions are prone to violence. This episode has renewed relevance given the recent discussions of civil war in the wake of the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago: Dan and Brad dissect why so many evangelical leaders–and high-level government officials–are threatening civil war if the president […]
Weekly Roundup: Rad Trad Catholics, SBC Investigations, and the Party of Trump
Brad and. Dan begin by discussing the week’s GOP primary results, nothing that the GOP remains the Party of Trump. They juxtapose these results with the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago, the Trump Org tax case in NY, and the other ongoing investigations. The takeaway: facts and morality don’t matter in MAGA land. Just fealty to […]
It’s In the Code, Ep. 16: Spiritual Warfare
“Spiritual Warfare 1.0” What is “spiritual warfare”? Why do some Christians understand their faith and practice in terms of spiritual warfare? And what are some of the concrete effects of understanding Christianity in terms of spiritual warfare? In this episode, Dan outlines where this language of spiritual warfare comes from, how different Christian groups understand […]
Talking to Red State Christians
Brad speaks with journalist and pastor Angela Denker about the updated version of her book, Red State Christians. Red State Christians: https://www.broadleafbooks.com/store/product/9781506482507/Red-State-Christians Denker spent a year traveling across the United States, interviewing the Evangelical Christian voters who supported the Trump presidency and exploring how their voting block continues to influence the landscape of modern conservative […]
Weekly Roundup: Infrastructure Week at Mar-a-Lago
+ MAGA Nation Calls for Civil War
It’s In the Code, Ep. 16: Being Biblical 2.0
In this episode, Dan revisits the claim or aspiration to be “biblical.” If such claims or aspirations involve efforts to control religious adherents, what are the consequences of this? What claims or attitudes, or actions does it license? How do claims to be “biblical” create an “anything-goes” kind of spirituality? How does this play out […]
Latinx Evangelicals and Christian Nationalism
Colonialism, Assimilation, and Power
Weekly Roundup: Are We In Kansas Anymore?
+ Orbán at CPAC and Primaries in Key States