It's in the Code Ep 116: “Young Marriages”

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

News, Politics

4.7 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus content most Mondays, bonus episodes every month, ad-free listening, access to the entire 600-episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/ In this episode, Dan continues decoding a card from a church bulletin that outlines the features of a particular church, focusing on number five on the list: “young marriages.” The focus here is the church’s ministry to “young married couples,” or “young marrieds.” But what does that mean? And why is this particular demographic so important to the church that they show up on this list? What ideology of gender, sexuality, and family is encoded in “young marriages”? Check this week’s episode to find out! Church Bulletin photo HERE. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/StraightWhiteJC Order Brad's book: https://bookshop.org/a/95982/9781506482163 Check out BetterHelp and use my code SWA for a great deal: www.betterhelp.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Axis Mundi You're going to. As always welcome to It's in the Code, podcast as part of Straight White American Jesus.
0:35.3	I am your host, Dan Miller, Professor of Religion and Social Thought at Landmark College.
0:40.2	Delighted to be with you.
0:41.4	As always, please invite you to reach out Daniel Miller swag,
0:44.8	Daniel Miller, SW A.J at gmail.com. Check us out on discord.
0:49.6	Subscribe if you haven't already, if you could consider doing that to support what we do if you have
0:55.0	have to consider doing that to support what we do if you like what you hear.
0:56.0	Just going to dive in.
0:57.0	We are continuing to work through this...
1:00.0	I don't know exactly what to call it, this little card that we've been looking at for some time
1:04.8	It appears to be an insert that would go into like a church bulletin church mailers and so forth a little card and it has eight items on it that tell us when you walk into the church
1:15.4	that produced it what it is that you will encounter and we're just working our
1:20.7	way down the list and we are up to point number five.
1:23.7	We're past the midway point of the list.
1:26.4	And point five is another one that I've been kind of looking forward to getting to.
1:30.8	It is, it is young marriages and it ties in with other terms on the list
1:39.1	specifically smiling wives obedient children and strong
1:43.2	handshakes. I've talked about those before. Strong handshakes was just
1:46.8	the last episode. And in important ways I think this this young
1:51.5	marriages it rounds out the vision of gender and
1:54.8	sexuality and family expressed in this card and it also provides a window into some
2:01.7	really key elements of conservative American Protestantism in particular.
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