A White Southern Pentecostal Bernie Voter

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

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4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2020

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Aaron Simmons has been asked to leave numerous churches over the last decade. Not over theology or the Bible. But because he votes the wrong way and wants to have open discussions about abortion, race, justice, and other issues. A fourth-generation Pentecostal, he didn't leave evangelicalism. It left him. But he persists--attending an evangelical church whilst voting for Bernie and trying to create space for a more responsible and ethical American evangelicalism. Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus episodes, ad-free listening, access to the entire 500-episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/ Linktree: https://linktr.ee/StraightWhiteJC Order Brad's new book: https://www.amazon.com/Preparing-War-Extremist-Christian-Nationalism/dp/1506482163 SWAJ Apparel is here! https://straight-white-american-jesus.creator-spring.com/listing/not-today-uncle-ron To Donate: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/BradleyOnishi Venmo: @straightwhitejc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Straight White American Jesus. My name is Brad O'Nishi,
0:18.1	Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Skibmore College. And I'm joined today by my colleague and also friend
0:25.0	J. Aaron Simmons who is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Furman University
0:30.2	Aaron has authored many things he's edited many things he is the president
0:35.6	currently of the Sorin Kirkwood Society in the United States he has a recent book
0:39.9	that just came out Christian philosophy and that is conceptions,
0:45.4	continuations, and challenges.
0:47.1	That's from Oxford.
0:48.6	Another book, Kircogor is God and the Good Life,
0:50.8	from Indiana University Press, a book called God and the good life from Indiana University Press a book called God and the other a book called
0:56.4	the new phenomenology Aaron you you every time I look at your CV I'm just amazed at how much you've
1:02.1	written in a short amount of time.
1:03.7	So thanks for joining me.
1:05.7	Oh, happy to be here.
1:07.1	Really glad to do it.
1:09.6	And so I, you know, there's a bunch of reasons I wanted to have you on and one of them is just you know we've been friends for a couple years now
1:17.1	We met at a conference and every time we get together I feel like we just sort of talk for through four or five hours about everything from philosophy to
1:23.5	religion to ethics to whatever may be.
1:28.8	And you know I know you know one of the reasons we have such good conversations is we share
1:32.1	a kind of intellectual
1:32.8	background philosophical and otherwise but we're also coming from different places I've
1:38.2	said on this show many times and told my story that I'm an ex-evangelical and I'm now
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