ATBS: “Holy Paranoia” W/ Jared Stacy

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Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Documentary, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Mental Health

4.2 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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In this “At the Bus Stop” episode, Dr. Jared Stacy, a theologian and ethicist, joins Johnna and Jay to unpack the link between conspiracy theories, Christian nationalism, and the culture of abuse within white evangelical spaces. Drawing from his personal experience and academic research, Jared explores how storytelling shapes power, how conspiracy theories thrive in religious communities, and why many churches prioritize maintaining societal structures over faithful witness. The conversation ...

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1:02.6	Today we have Dr. Jared Stacey with us.
1:04.6	A doctor is in the house. He is also an author of an upcoming book.
1:09.8	He's an ethicist and a theologian. Welcome, Jared.
1:14.7	It is good to be here, Jana. Thanks for having me. You too, Jay. Thanks for having me on.
1:19.3	I would love to hear just a little bit more about this book that you're working on. Can you share some about that?
1:24.7	Sure. I can. So I was raised in a fundamentalist Christianity. So that's the
1:31.6	fundamentalist corner of evangelicalism. I went to Liberty and I was in the SBC and I've come out of a
1:41.8	lot of that. And this book is part of my grappling with conspiracy theory in my own personal experience, but also my experience as a pastor, as a former pastor, is what kind of gave rise to my doctoral research into conspiracy theory and evangelicalism at January 6th
2:05.6	and then really like 300 years of American history. So it really is not a topic that I picked
2:11.3	off of the shelf of saying, hey, like, what could be the most controversial or even relevant topic.
2:17.5	This was something that came out of my own upbringing, my own experience in Christianity
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