6. American Jesus with April Ajoy

Flipping Tables

Monte Mader

Society & Culture

5 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 86 minutes

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HAPPY WOMENS HISTORY MONTH!!!!

April Ajoy is a former Christian nationalist and author of the book Star Spangled Jesus: Leaving Christian Nationalism and Finding a True Faith. The book is a heartwarming exploration of Aprils experience with Christian Nationalism, how her faith has evolved and the damage of Christian Nationalism in todays culture. She and I explore our stories and insights in todays current culture as well as what faith means now.

Follow her at @aprialajoy on IG and BUY HER BOOK

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0:00.0	I am so excited for today's episode. First, happy Women's History Month. We are starting off this month with our very first interview. I'll be interviewing April Ajoy today, a former fellow Christian nationalist who found her way out. And she is the author of the book The Star Spangled Jesus, leaving Christian nationalism and finding a true faith.
0:22.0	I found April Lejoy on Instagram, and I actually saw her book recommended by a different
0:27.1	content creator that I follow, which led me to April's page and her story.
0:31.5	Reading her book was so funny and heartwarming, but also felt like reading so much of my own
0:37.2	childhood.
0:38.2	And so for the beginning of this women's history month, I wanted to get two girls together
0:42.1	to talk about Christian nationalism, its impact on our current situation, as well as just
0:47.3	the perspective of two women raised to believe in this movement and in these ideologies.
0:52.8	It was such a fun time talking with her.
0:56.1	And it's a little bit longer of a podcast, but I didn't want to cut us off because so much of
1:00.3	the information was so good. I hope that you enjoy this first interview of several upcoming
1:06.6	ones the next few weeks on today's episode of flipping tables. All right. Welcome, April. Thank you so much for joining the podcast today. I was talking to you just now, just before, about how much I loved your book.
1:36.6	I felt like reading about my childhood. And you mentioned some names that we'll get into that I didn't think anybody else but me remembered.
1:45.2	Well, welcome.
1:52.1	Thank you. I'm so excited to be here. It's also nice, too, just hearing from other people that also had similar childhoods, like, oh, okay, I'm not, I'm not alone in that weird world.
1:57.6	Certain principles that I was like, oh, yeah, oh, yeah. Like. Like we would have in my church, we had special Wednesday night services to watch
2:05.0	answers in Genesis with Kenham.
2:07.5	You mentioned that.
2:08.6	And I was just like, I haven't been able to talk to anybody about that since high school.
2:13.5	Because even when I went to Liberty, people didn't know what I was talking about.
2:17.6	They were like, who is that? What do you mean?
2:20.0	But, you know, evolution was the demon.
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