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Geographic restrictions and teas and sees apply 18 plus. And the straight white American Jesus. My name is Brad O'Nishi. I am Associate Professor of

Religion, Skidmore College, and I'm here with my co-host. My name is Dan Miller.

I'm an associate professor of religion

and social thought at Landmark College and today our focus we're calling the

episode dating Jesus it's kind of a weird we're title and I'm going to start with a story a little embarrassing story about once upon a time as an undergrad and as a reminder as an undergrad I was you know died in the wool hardcore evangelical Christian I was an

evangelical undergraduate institution and I was crushing pretty hard on this

girl there and I asked her out one time and she said she shot me down and the

reason she shot me down is that right now she said I'm dating Jesus now that's

going to sound weird and you'll have stories like this too but within the evangelical context that certainly at the time that was not a weird notion and it was it was a euphemism for an evangelical parlance focusing on their relationship with God as opposed to dating.

But it was also a broader euphemism

for the purity movement and culture within evangelicalism.

And what we want to talk about today

is a little bit about that movement,

but more importantly, what that movement has to tell us

about evangelicals and politics and broader culture.

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