After Evangelcalism with David Gushee

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

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4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Dan speaks with Dr. David Gushee, Professor of Ethics and Director of the Center for Theology and Public Life at Mercer University. The former president of the American Academy of Religion, he is a prolific author who writes often about his journey out of evangelicalism. He and Dan discuss his new book, After Evangelicalism: The Path to a New Christianity. Their discussion delves into issues such as community, race, and sexuality--and how White evangelicals are getting those tragically wrong. Gushee proposes new ways of Christian believing, belonging, and behaving, one that emphasizes being a light the world rather than a vector of exclusion and political power. 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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0:17.9	Hello and welcome to Straight White American Jesus. My name is Dan Miller. I'm associate professor of religion and social thought at Landmark College and
0:21.6	I'm pleased to be joined today by Dr David Gushy
0:24.8	who's been a guest on our show in the past. He is the Distinguished University
0:30.0	Professor of Christian Ethics and the Director for the Center of the Center for Theology and Public Life at Mercer
0:36.3	University. He has been in leadership positions in various professional organizations,
0:42.3	has published and produced a
0:44.7	great deal of material on lots of things related to the topics we
0:49.2	discuss on the show. Perhaps most relevant for the discussion we'll be having are some noteworthy books of recent years.
0:57.2	I believe in 2017 the third edition of his book Changing Our Mind, which advocated for full LGBTQ inclusion in the life of the church
1:06.4	came out. In 2017 he published still Christian following Jesus out of American
1:12.4	Evangelicalism and that was the context of our prior discussion.
1:15.7	And just recently here in 2020 he has published after evangelicalism the path to a new Christianity
1:22.3	which is going to be sort of our focus today.
1:24.0	So Professor Gushi, excuse me, thank you very much for your time and welcome to Straightwide American Jesus.
1:31.6	Dan, thanks for having me again, and I love talking with you and I love the name of your podcast. I love telling people that I'm going to be on straight white American Jesus, you know, I mean people are so fascinated by not just the name but what you all are about.
1:48.0	So it's an honor. So thanks for having me back.
1:51.0	Yeah, well, it's interesting because so much of what you do captures the theme of we have, right,
1:55.3	of this sort of presupposition of who or what Jesus was and what being an American
1:59.9	Christian is.
2:02.2	So I'll just use that as the segue into your book
2:04.8	after evangelicalism the path to a new Christianity.
2:07.5	And as you and I discussed sort of where
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