An Update From Minneapolis with Mason Mennenga (#375)
Religion on the Mind
Religion on the Mind
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🗓️ 26 January 2026
⏱️ 73 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back, everybody, to a special episode of Religion on the Mind. We've been calling these |
| 0:14.3 | Religion on the News. I've done a few of these now, myself, and Mason Meninga. Mason, |
| 0:23.7 | welcome back. Thanks for being here. It's good to see you. It is always good to see you and is always good to be given shit by you in whatever ways |
| 0:29.6 | you find funny in the moment. I tend to agree. Today's going to be a little, probably a little less |
| 0:34.7 | silly. So this is a special edition of religion on the news |
| 0:39.4 | because Mason, you live in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which has been the site of not only the sort |
| 0:47.8 | of most current iteration of the culture war in the United States, but boots on the ground, |
| 0:57.7 | ICE agent, federal immigration officers outnumbering local police department. I think five to one is the number that I saw. |
| 1:03.5 | Yeah. We've been seeing a lot of reports. So we are sort of using this to just talk about what's going |
| 1:09.3 | on in Minneapolis. However, I must be clear, |
| 1:13.1 | we are recording this on January 19th, Monday, and it's going to be coming out, probably, |
| 1:19.4 | Monday, January 26th. So we are a full week behind whatever current updates have happened. So we're |
| 1:27.0 | not going to try and do news talk. We are going |
| 1:30.7 | to talk about the concepts and ideas that are coming up for us as a result of these events, |
| 1:36.1 | which have been ongoing now for, you know, a month or more. You're telling me you're not going to |
| 1:41.1 | be able to be like a profit that's able to predict what's about to happen here in the next week? |
| 1:44.2 | I'm not charismatic. Wow. So I believe in this. I'm a cessationist. I thought you were actually a real Christian, but I guess. I'm a cessationist. I'm not a cessationist. We're going to get you off that religion and spirituality category and get you back into that news category. my goodness, you secular |
| 2:01.5 | SOB. |
| 2:04.6 | Miscategor. category and get you back into that news category. My goodness, you secular SOB. |
| 2:04.9 | Miscategorized on Apple Podcasts. So, yeah, I want to talk about, it might be interesting to see |
| 2:11.8 | where our politics might diverge a little bit on this, but really it's been a clarifying, eye-opening, very difficult time. |
| 2:20.9 | I'll get a little personal with where that's happened for me. |
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