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Straight White American Jesus

Confronting the Sh*ttiness of Paul

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

News, Politics

4.72K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In his new book, Profaning Paul, USC Professor Cavan Concannon takes an unflinching look at the letters of Paul through the metaphor of excrement--or shit. "The letters of Paul have been used to support and condone a host of evils over the span of more than two millennia: racism, slavery, imperialism, misogyny, and anti-Semitism, to name a few. Following the lead of feminist, queer, and minoritized scholarship, Profaning Paul asks what would happen if we stopped recycling Paul’s writings. By profaning the status of his letters as sacred texts, we might open up new avenues for imagining political figurations to meet our current and coming political, economic, and ecological challenges. 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

This fall, get ready for on God's campus. Voices from the Queer Underground podcast about

0:13.7

white Christian supremacy and being queer in the most conservative campuses in the country.

0:19.5

Join Chloe as the $90 reads in God We Trust. Paul.

0:24.4

Especially the text about homosexuality and abortion.

0:28.7

And I adhered to that biblical document until I was 19 when I had my first relationship

0:34.0

with a woman. As they reveal a roadmap to change from the underbelly of the church's best kept secrets.

0:46.5

You're listening to an irreverent podcast.

0:50.2

Visit irreverent.fm for more content from our amazing lineup of creators.

0:58.4

Welcome to Straight White American Jesus. My name is Brad O'Neishie. I am faculty at University of

1:13.9

San Francisco, our show's host and a partnership with the Cap Center UCSB. And I'm joined today by

1:19.5

Dr. Cabin Concanon, who is associate professor of religion at the University of Southern California.

1:24.6

And before just letting everybody know about all your accolades and great things, I'll just say

1:29.2

Cabin, thanks for joining me. It's great to be here. Thanks for having me.

1:32.4

So you are by training a biblical scholar, have written some some very what I would call

1:38.2

focused works on, you know, biblical literature, assembling early Christianity, trade networks

1:43.4

in the letters of Dionysius of Corinth. When you were Gentiles, specters of ethnicity in a Roman

1:48.6

Corinth and Paul's Francine correspondents. And so I love having biblical scholars like you on

1:55.4

because there's no more greater street cred than the biblical scholar who digs into scripture

2:01.6

as a as a profession. You are also somebody working on an amazing project with Jill Hicks Keaton

2:08.6

on the Museum of the Bible. We've had Jill on and just can't wait to sort of see that project

2:14.1

appear in the world and hopefully have both of you back to talk about it and dig into the very

2:18.2

strange and peculiar phenomenon that is the Museum of the Bible. Associate Professor at USC,

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