Is the Bible a "Good Book"? w/ Jill Hicks Keeton

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

News, Politics

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

The Bible is full of ravenous violence, sexually explicit scenes, sexual assault, murder, and more. But somehow it's considered the universal good book. While histories show us that white Christians in the US have frequently appealed to their Bibles in support of issues now judged to be on the wrong side of history, including racism, sexism, and colonialism, contemporary white evangelical figures have in recent years worked steadfastly to defend the Bible against charges of complicity in harm. This is especially the case when it comes to patriarchy and the place of women, as evangelicals conscript the Bible into arguments for and against patriarchal normativity in response to changing conceptions of what is good. 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/ Buy the Good Book here: https://www.fortresspress.com/store/product/9781506485850/Good-Book Subscribe now to American Idols: https://www.axismundi.us/american-idols/ To Donate: venmo - @straightwhitejc Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/BradleyOnishi Linktree: https://linktr.ee/StraightWhiteJC Order Brad's book: https://www.amazon.com/Preparing-War-Extremist-Christian-Nationalism/dp/1506482163 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pure White, a podcast about sexual purity and white supremacy.
0:08.0	I'm your host Sarah Mossler.
0:11.0	For 15 years, I've studied this thing we now call evangelical purity culture.
0:17.0	So we're going back to the times and places where sexual purity was a prominent tool for maintaining a social order
0:26.7	premised on racial inequality.
0:29.8	But the foundational concept of sexual purity in the United States has a deep and complicated history that goes back well over 150 years.
0:42.0	Uncovering this history demonstrates how sexual purity was constructed as an exclusive category
0:49.4	for white women, providing them with protection and status, while denying the same to other women,
0:56.8	enslaved, immigrant, and other women of color.
1:01.4	In the United States, purity and impurity have always been racially coded.
1:07.1	To be white is to be free and pure.
1:10.2	To not be white is to be suspect and impure.
1:14.0	Purity culture didn't just form us sexually.
1:16.5	It formed us racially.
1:20.0	Pure White is a co-production of AccessMundi Media and the After Purity Project.
1:24.6	Episode 1 drops December 11.
1:27.0	Find it anywhere you get your podcasts.
1:29.1	Hit subscribe now so you don't miss any of the action.
1:31.9	And check out Accessmundi.
1:33.0	US for more information on this series and so much more. Axis Mundi You're going to be here. Welcome to Straightwide American Jesus. My name is Brad O'Nishi faculty at the University of San Francisco.
2:13.6	I'm joined today by a return guest and someone who I'm just so glad to have back on the program
2:19.8	and that is Dr.
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