Jan 26
Raised on the Prosperity Gospel: Fear, Shame, Poverty, and the Making of the Christian Right
Josiah Hesse grew up in northern Iowa during the farm crisis of the 1980s, a moment of economic collapse, rising poverty, and quiet desperation across the rural Midwest. In this episode, he joins Straight White American, Jesus to talk about his new memoir, On Fire for God: Fear, ... Show More
45m 20s
Jan 23
Weekly Roundup: The Sin of Empathy and the Theology of Terror From Minnesota to Davos
Straight White American Jesus digs into the Minnesota church protest that’s been framed as “anti-Christian”—and explains why that framing collapses on contact. Brad Onishi and Dan Miller connect the dots between City’s Church, ICE, Doug Wilson’s theological orbit, and the ideolog ... Show More
1h 3m
Aug 2023
Sophie Bjork-James, "The Divine Institution: White Evangelicalism's Politics of the Family" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
The Divine Institution: White Evangelicalism's Politics of the Family (Rutgers University Press, 2021) provides an account of how a theology of the family came to dominate a white evangelical tradition in the post-civil rights movement United States, providing a theological corol ... Show More
52m 43s
Oct 19
The lost children of Tuam - The Sunday Story
<p>The small Irish town of Tuam is home to one of Ireland's most shocking secrets. During the 20th century, thousands of children born out of wedlock were taken from their mothers, branded the 'children of sin' and sent to institutions run by nuns. At St Mary's, it’s claimed 800 ... Show More
36m 24s
May 2025
Mark Sutherland: Eugenics & Population Control in 1920s Britain & Today
Mark Sutherland discusses the historical context and ongoing relevance of eugenics and population control, as explored in his book “Exterminating Poverty”. Sutherland details his grandfather, Dr. Halliday Sutherland’s, true motivations for opposing “Britain’s Margaret Sanger” Mar ... Show More
1h 43m
Mar 2019
Joyce Antler, "Jewish Radical Feminism: Voices from the Women’s Liberation Movement" (NYU Press, 2018)
Joyce Antler is the Samuel J. Lane Professor Emerita of American Jewish history and culture at Brandeis University. Jewish Radical Feminism: Voices from the Women’s Liberation Movement (New York University Press, 2018) provides richly detailed biographies of known and unknown Jew ... Show More
51m 54s
Dr. Audrey Clare Farley stops by to discuss her article, "The Eugenics Roots of Evangelical Family Values," which outlines how the family values discourse so prevalent in Evangelical culture has its origins in eugenics. Eugenics was a junk-science movement started in the early 20th century that tried to show the genealogical and biological superiority of Whi ... Show More
<p>People in the 17th century were at spiritual war with the devil. </p><br><p>It was a time of huge upheaval. What became known as the witch trials soon followed.</p><br><p>In this first episode of a limited series, <em>Inside the Witch Trials</em>, we go back to the E ... Show More
