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Decoding the Religious Right's threat to democracy.

Former evangelical ministers turned scholars Dr. Bradley Onishi and Dr. Daniel Miller preached these beliefs before deconstructing them. They combine insider experience with academic rigor.

A Top 50 Apple politics podcast with 1,000+ episodes, SWAJ delivers the theological context mainstream media misses, independently funded and accountable only to listeners.

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Straight White American Jesus Episodes

Myths of Violence: How Guns Became Sacred in America

Weekly Roundup: A Battle of Fonts and Freedoms: Analyzing Trump's Authoritarianism and Growing Unpopularity

Special Episode: When We All Get to Heaven Ep 1

It's in the Code ep 172: “Projecting Enemies”

Olivia Nuzzi, Mormon Wives, and the Death of Democracy

Weekly Roundup: Cultural Crusades: From Hegseth’s Boat Attacks to Oklahoma’s Classrooms

It’s in the Code ep 171: “A Man Like God”

National Guard Shooting Reveals the Right’s Dangerous Western Supremacy

SWAJ Rewind: Give Thanks

Weekly Roundup: Kristi Noem Implicated, Erika Kirk’s Love Language, and Bill McKibben on the Tragedy of American Christianity

Pulitzer Winner on How the End of the Cold War Created MAGA Populism

Short Weekly Roundup: Donald Trump is the Anti-Christian President

It's in the Code ep 170: “Order, Chaos, and Evil”

ICE is Detaining Holocaust Survivors

Weekly Roundup: MAGAworld Splinters: Epstein Revelations, Civilizational Populism, and the Future of the GOP

American Unexceptionalism: K-Pop Demon Hunters IRL Korea

The Librarian Who Fought Christian Nationalist Book Bans and Won

Weekly Roundup: Mamdani Wins and Dems Sweep - Blame the Women!

It's in the Code ep 169: “It’s the Same Story”

The Intellectual Forces Behind JD Vance + Vance Divorce Rumors

Weekly Roundup: We May Never Vote Again + JD Vance Runs for President

It's in the Code ep 168: “Man’s (Empty) Purpose”

Beyond Thoughts and Prayers: The Rituals of Freedom

Weekly Roundup: “No Kings" vs Christ the King Who Condones Slavery + Trump Destroys the White House

Special Episode: Is Pope Leo Really Dissolving Opus Dei?

It's in the Code ep 167: "Manhood Pt. 2"

Peter Thiel's Gospel Part II: Palantir and the Philosopher-King

Resisting the Spiritual Violence of ICE

Weekly Roundup: “I Love Hitler” Group Chat Leaked + The Technocrats Who Want Monarchy + No Kings!

It's in the Code ep 166: “Manhood”

Introducing American Unexceptionalism

Weekly Roundup: Everyone Who Opposes Trump is Antifa + MAGA Christians Are Being Visited by Charlie Kirk

Introducing Teología Sin Vergüenza: Queer. Feminist. Latinx. Decolonial Theology

It's in the Code ep 165: “The Plight of Man”

Brad Unfiltered: The Gospel of Peter Thiel (Part I)

Weekly Roundup: Hegseth Declares War On the Military + Trump Declares War On You

It's in the Code ep 164: “The Model Man”

Brad Unfiltered: Troops in Portland: A Symbol of Authoritarianism

White Evangelicalism + American Empire

Weekly Roundup: Tylenol Trump at the UN + Political Violence

It's in the Code ep 163: “Social Justice Is Justice, Pt. 3”

Inside Charlie Kirk's Memorial: A Deep Dive into Christian Nationalism and Political Polarization

Leah Greenberg, Co-Founder of Indivisible, On Mobilizing and Hope

Weekly Roundup: State Media, Jimmy Kimmel, and How Free Speech Dies

It's in the Code ep 162: “Social Justice Is Justice, Pt. 2”

Political Violence Before and After Charlie Kirk's Murder

Weekly Roundup: The Death and Afterlife of Charlie Kirk

It's in the Code ep 161: “Social Justice Is Justice, Pt. 1”

Are There Non-Harmful Ways to Read the Bible?

Weekly Roundup: This Is An Invasion - Pritzker, Trump, and the Union Coming Apart + Venezuelan Boat Attack

It's in the Code ep 160: “No Human Is Illegal, Pt.3”

The Modern Day Scopes Trial

Weekly Roundup: Thoughts & Prayers, But No Vaccines or Safety

Bonus Episode: Trump is Dying. Military Occupation is Happening. What's Next?

It's in the Code ep 159: “No Human Is Illegal, Pt.2”

New Data Shows Democrats Are in Deep Trouble With People of Faith

Weekly Roundup: MAGA’s War on Education, Sanctuary, and DEI

Special Episode: James Dobson, Eugenics, and the Pure American Body

It's in the Code ep 158: “No Human Is Illegal, Pt.1”

Alt Reich: The Network War Within

Weekly Roundup: God and the Military in DC + Nazi-Loving Economist Takes Over Jobs Data

Leah Litman on the Grievance and Conspiracy Theories That Run SCOTUS

Weekly Roundup: Texas Gerrymander is An Existential Threat to the Republic

It's in the Code ep 157: “Love Is Love, Pt.3”

Special Episode: Will Democrats Be Arrested? On the Ground Reporting from the Texas Capitol

Churches Can Now Endorse Political Candidates - It's a Dark Money Nightmare

Weekly Roundup: "Starve Away" + New Trump Policy Encourages Christians to Proselytize at Work

It's in the Code ep 156: “Love Is Love, Pt.2”

An Anthropologist on the Everyday Walls of American Life - And How to Tear Them Down

Bonus Live Episode: White House + PraegerU Are Making AI-Slop Founding Fathers

Weekly Roundup: Manifesting Destiny: Birthright citizenship, DHS, and "Native Americans"

It's in the Code ep 155: “Love Is Love, Pt.1”

Christendom 2.0: What Does Moscow Have to Do With DC?

Re-Release: Rep. James Talarico - the Christian Democrat Fighting Christian Nationalism in Texas

Weekly Roundup: Trump, Epstein, John MacArthur, Allie Beth Stuckey, and Theology for Psychopaths

It's in the Code ep 154: “All Women Are Women, Pt. 3”

Tech Fascists vs Christian Nationalists?