Pure White Emmett Till. Lionel Richie. The Atlanta Massacre. This episode looks at how the legacy of lynching remains active in the promotion of myths of sexual danger which even today promote white women’s sexual purity and racial innocence. It examines...
Pure White This episode is named after an especially violent time in US history immediately following Reconstruction in the US South. Frequent racial-terror lynchings were justified by what journalist Ida B. Wells called the lynching myth. The myth was...
Pure White First coined by US gender historian Barbara Welter, the cult of true womanhood is a concept that describes Victorian gender ideologies of the 19th century cultural elite. An analysis of these ideals reveals efforts by white Protestants to create a...
Pure White What happens when you link national renewal to the sexual lives of teenagers? This is exactly what evangelical purity culture did in the 1990s. In this first episode, host Dr. Sara Moslener recounts the history and details of purity culture's...
Pure White What can an enslaved woman's memoir teach us about the history of purity culture and White supremacy?The history of sexual purity is deeply intertwined with the history of race in the US. Specifically, it tells us a great deal about how the racial...
Pure White Episode 1 drops December 11 2023!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Pure White In this final episode of Pure White analyses how myths of white women’s innocence are deployed to demonstrate national innocence. The events of January 6, 2020 included several white women who willfully disobeyed the law. When arrested, many...
Pure White This episode examines how the True Love Waits and the Southern Baptist church influenced Clinton’s 1996 welfare reform bill with an amendment that created funding for abstinence-only education. This pairing demonstrates how myths about sexual...
Pure White This episode focuses on the organization True Love Waits and its founding as a highly ambitious campaign to transform the diversity of sexual cultures, expressions, and ethics in the US into a singular ethic based on Christian principles. While...
On God's Campus Erin, Paul, and Kalie discuss Kalie’s experience at Lincoln Christian University, Trans inclusion in the Bible, and purity culture.Notes:Support Kalie’s work: https://propheticimagination.org/Find Kalie on Instagram:...
On God's Campus Chloe, Paul, and Erin navigate the deadly consequences of anti-LGBTQIA+ policies and ideologies at religious colleges, tell the story of what happens when queer students on campus fight back, and give our call to action in helping us end...
On God's Campus Chloe, Paul, and Erin take a look at how religious schools and colleges are claiming exemptions from civil rights laws now in the context of sexual orientation and gender identity, as told through the stories of queer and trans students who have...
On God's Campus Chloe, Paul, and Erin embark on a deep dive into the racist roots and history of religious colleges by untangling the anti-Black ideologies of Bob Jones University, unpacking the theological arguments used to support segregated schools, and...
On God's Campus Chloe, Paul, and Erin set the stage for On God’s Campus by giving in-depth background information from their personal lives, upbringings, and the ways that they are directly connected to LGBTQIA+ discrimination on religious college campuses.REAP...
On God's Campus ON GOD’S CAMPUS: Voices from the Queer Underground is a limited series podcast about white Christian supremacy and being queer on the most conservative campuses in the country. Chloe Guillot is your guide and translator through the carefully...
On God's Campus As per REAP’s commitment to fight for the safety, bodily autonomy, justice, and human rights of LGBTQ people, REAP has been hosting private meetings and workshops with LGBTQ students around the US. These students are unique because they are...
On God's Campus On this #GivingTuesday we bring you two stories of students who deserved better. And while we may not have been able to sway the Department of Education this year, we are leaning into our grassroots efforts to support students where they are. Just...
On God's Campus Angela Whitlock was a huge part of the underground LGBTQ movement at Samford. Hers is a success story of someone who relied on her community to execute a groundbreaking campaign at a conservative Christian school in the South. As the creator of...
On God's Campus After the appeal for Hunter v. DOE failed, we realized that while the law would allow for discrimination on non-affirming college campuses, queer students on those campuses will need our support even more. This brings us to two points: 1. We need...
American Idols Andrew reveals how Christian nationalism leads Christians to harm their neighbors when they embrace the idols of power, fear, and violence. He uses two key examples--racism and xenophobia--to demonstrate that these idols violate core Christian...
American Idols Andrew draws on dozens of sociological studies in order to demonstrate the anti-democratic facets of Christian nationalism. He shows how Christian nationalism shapes attitudes about police brutality, democratic processes, voting rights, immigration...
American Idols In the opening episode, Andrew defines Christian nationalism, and uses his personal journey as a Christian to understand how it works on the ground in the religious lives of Americans, church spaces, and the public square. Transcript here.Order...
American Idols A podcast series about how and why one world-renowned sociologist renewed his faith by leaving Christian nationalism behind.In this limited series, world-renowned sociologists Andrew Whitehead uses his own faith journey to uncover the threats that...
American Idols Andrew speaks with local organizers, professors, lawyers, and clergy who are fighting Christian nationalism - figures such as Anthea Butler, Jemar Tisby, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, Chris and Mendi Tackett, and Robert P. Jones. They share strategies...
Charismatic Revival Fury: The New Apostolic Reformation Subscribe for to listen to this series ad-free, and get access to Axis Mundi Media premium features: access to exclusive series, bonus content most Mondays, bonus episodes every month, ad-free listening, access to the entire 500-episode archive,...
Charismatic Revival Fury: The New Apostolic Reformation Subscribe for to listen to this series ad-free, and get access to Axis Mundi Media premium features: access to exclusive series, bonus content most Mondays, bonus episodes every month, ad-free listening, access to the entire 500-episode archive,...
Charismatic Revival Fury: The New Apostolic Reformation Subscribe for to listen to this series ad-free, and get access to Axis Mundi Media premium features: access to exclusive series, bonus content most Mondays, bonus episodes every month, ad-free listening, access to the entire 500-episode archive,...
Charismatic Revival Fury: The New Apostolic Reformation Subscribe for to listen to this series ad-free, and get access to Axis Mundi Media premium features: access to exclusive series, bonus content most Mondays, bonus episodes every month, ad-free listening, access to the entire 500-episode archive,...
Charismatic Revival Fury: The New Apostolic Reformation Michael Flynn was raised Catholic. But in recent years his spiritual identity has shifted - or expanded. He talks often about spiritual warfare and the need for any army of God's warriors to do battle. It is one thing to hear pastors or even...
Charismatic Revival Fury: The New Apostolic Reformation Subscribe for to listen to this series ad-free, and get access to Axis Mundi Media premium features: access to exclusive series, bonus content most Mondays, bonus episodes every month, ad-free listening, access to the entire 500-episode archive,...
Charismatic Revival Fury: The New Apostolic Reformation Subscribe for to listen to this series ad-free, and get access to Axis Mundi Media premium features: access to exclusive series, bonus content most Mondays, bonus episodes every month, ad-free listening, access to the entire 500-episode archive,...
Charismatic Revival Fury: The New Apostolic Reformation Subscribe for to listen to this series ad-free, and get access to Axis Mundi Media premium features: access to exclusive series, bonus content most Mondays, bonus episodes every month, ad-free listening, access to the entire 500-episode archive,...
Charismatic Revival Fury: The New Apostolic Reformation Subscribe for to listen to this series ad-free, and get access to Axis Mundi Media premium features: access to exclusive series, bonus content most Mondays, bonus episodes every month, ad-free listening, access to the entire 500-episode archive,...
Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman The question of how much of the Bible is historically accurate, and how much is myth or legend, is both interesting and important to a lot of people - believer and atheist alike. Some insist it’s accurate down to the last detail, while others label...
Religion for Breakfast Religion for Breakfast 
Straight White American Jesus Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus content most Mondays, bonus episodes every month, ad-free listening, access to the entire 750-episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/ Subscribe to One Nation, Indivisible...
Data > DogmaSometimes on this show, big ten-dollar words show up like apotropaic or etiology or deuterocanonical, where, unless you're pretty well-versed in this stuff, you may not know what we're talking about (ok fine- you may not know what Dan M is talking...
New Books in ReligionWhen a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis and the Reproduction of Species (U California Press, 2023) investigates rabbinic treatises relating to animals, humans, and other life-forms. Through an original analysis of creaturely generation and...
Straight White American Jesus Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus content most Mondays, bonus episodes every month, ad-free listening, access to the entire 750-episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/ In this January bonus episode, Brad...
Religion for Breakfast 
Home Brewed Christianity In this episode, I am joined by theologian and ethicist Dr. Joerg Rieger. In the conversation, we explore critiques of religion in the public square, its global influence on right-wing populism, and its decline as an institution amidst growing...
Straight White American Jesus Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus content most Mondays, bonus episodes every month, ad-free listening, access to the entire 750-episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/ Brad and Dan critically analyze the...
New Books in ReligionThe life and works of the mysterious Indian yogin, Saraha, who has inspired Buddhist practitioners for over a thousand years. Saraha, “the Archer,” was a mysterious but influential tenth-century Indian Buddhist tantric adept who expressed his...
New Books in ReligionToday I talked to Alec Goldstein about Maimonides on the Book of Exodus (Kodesh Press, 2019). Rabbi Moses son of Maimon, known in Hebrew as Rambam and in English as Maimonides, is one of Judaism’s most influential and enduring figures. His works...
Straight White American Jesus Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus content most Mondays, bonus episodes every month, ad-free listening, access to the entire 750-episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/ Can there be a “sex positive” version...
New Books in ReligionIn Finding God in All the Black Places: Sacred Imaginings in Black Popular Culture (Rutgers UP, 2024), Beretta E. Smith-Shomade contends that Black spirituality and Black church religiosity are the critical crux of Black popular culture. She argues...
Keeping it 101Welcome to our very first movie discussion, nerds! In which we chat about the Ramayana with no Ram, why Hanuman is the Best Beast, Hijra superheroes, and also that Dev Patel should call us. As always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show...
New Books in ReligionWith timeless poetry and stunning imagery, the prophet Amos of Tekoa, a simple herdsman from the Judean mountains, stands in front of a stubborn, antagonistic audience of Israelite royalty and aristocracy and he rebukes them for their many abuses...
Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman Start talking about the Gospels, and most people will have a rough idea of what you’re talking about - a narrative account of Jesus’ life. Today, however, we throw all of that familiarity out of the window and talk about one of the most non-Gospel...