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Straight White American Jesus

Introducing American Unexceptionalism

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

Politics, News

4.72K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

What can we Americans learn from others around the world about how to protect democracy when the stakes are high? Can we as Americans learn about how to challenge forms of religious nationalism and religious supremacy? What can we learn from Buddhists in Sri Lanka or Muslims in Turkey, or Christians in South Korea who have faced similar kinds of forms of religious nationalism in in their own context and sought to deflate their power? That’s the purpose for this series. Across 10 episodes, we travel around the world to places where there are similar battles afoot, where exclusionary movements of religious nationalism are driving democratic backslid. We’ll be speaking with people of faith from a variety of faiths and traditions. We’ll be speaking with scholars and activists to understand what is happening in these contexts, how it’s similar to or different from what’s happening in the USA, and we’re gonna try to mine some practical lessons from those we speak to about what’s worked and what hasn’t in these efforts to protect democracy. ⁠ Subscribe to American Exceptionalism⁠ Subscribe to Teología Sin Vergüenza Linktree: https://linktr.ee/StraightWhiteJC Order Brad's book: https://bookshop.org/a/95982/9781506482163 Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus content most Mondays, bonus episodes every month, ad-free listening, access to the entire 850-episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

AXIS Moondy

0:08.3

Hey Anna, I've got a new secret weapon for print.

0:16.4

Print? Vista print, right? That's not a secret.

0:19.4

Print everything for your business with Vista print.

0:22.1

Business cards, stickers, t-shirt, signage, even photo books from your last holiday.

0:26.1

If you need it, we print it at vistoprint.co.uk.

0:29.6

Claire worked in the marketing department for an up-and-coming artisan bakery.

0:34.6

Unfortunately, the artisan bakery in question was so up and coming.

0:39.6

Nobody actually knew it existed.

0:42.3

But then she had the really good idea to use Canva to create a business plan.

0:47.3

It looked good, really, really good.

0:50.7

Their investors thought so too.

0:52.9

And now their hotcakes are selling like, well, exactly.

0:57.7

Thanks, Canber.

0:59.9

What if I told you that America is unique but not exceptional?

1:03.7

And what if I told you that when we forget the myth of our exceptionalism

1:07.0

and embrace our place in the world, that we might learn from our neighbors about how to fight Christian nationalism and authoritarianism.

1:14.7

What if we took a global view of resistance to those who would deny our rights and impose religion on our bodies?

1:22.6

This October from Axis Moody Media, we bring you American Unexceptionalism from Dr. Matthew Taylor,

1:28.5

author of The Violent Take It by Force, and the creator of Charismatic Revival Fury,

1:32.8

and the Reverend Susie Hayward, a global peace builder and veteran of the U.S. Institute of

1:38.6

Peace.

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