It's in the Code ep 189: “Jesus Isn’t An Alpha”

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

Politics, News

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Despite his promises, Josh Hawley’s vision of masculinity and masculine virtue is not “Christian” in any definable way. But while this may be surprising, given his Christian nationalist credentials, it actually serves the interests of his ideology not to be distinctly Christian? In what senses? What can be gained by ensuring that claims to “Christian masculinity” aren’t actually Christian? Join Dan for this week’s episode as he explains. Subscribe for $3.65: ⁠https://axismundi.supercast.com/⁠ Subscribe to our free newsletter: ⁠https://swaj.substack.com/⁠ Order American Caesar by Brad Onishi: ⁠https://static.macmillan.com/static/essentials/american-caesar-9781250427922/⁠ Donate to SWAJ: https://axismundi.supercast.com/donations/new Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Axis Mundy Axis Moondy I'm gonna be. I'm Hello and welcome to the podcast, straight white American Jesus.
0:33.6	My name is Dan Miller, Professor of Religion and Social Thought of Lamarck College.
0:37.1	Pleased to be with you as always. And as always, I want to say thank you for listening and
0:42.1	joining in and being a part of the discussion. This series, more than anything else we do,
0:46.8	a straightwayed American Jesus depends on you. So please keep the ideas, comments, feedback,
0:52.2	topics for new episodes, anything, everything you've got.
0:56.1	Keep them coming.
0:57.1	Daniel Miller, Swage, Daniel Miller, S-W-A-J at gmail.com, check those out.
1:01.9	Do not respond to as many emails as I wish that I had time to, and I am perpetually
1:06.4	sort of ashamed of that fact.
1:09.3	But I will deal with a shame as best I can, and please keep the
1:11.8	emails coming. We are continuing on in our look at Josh Holly's book on manhood, but looking
1:19.1	forward to the next series, starting a new series here in just a few episodes, questions I was
1:25.1	not allowed to ask in church or questions I wasn't supposed to ask in church,
1:28.5	and I continue to solicit your responses to those. What were the questions that got you in trouble
1:33.0	in church? What were the questions that got you to talking to you from a pastor or a parent?
1:37.1	What were the questions that maybe led you out of high control religion or church or whatever
1:42.2	context you might have been in. What are the questions
1:44.2	that have kept you going? Send those to me. I'd love to hear about them. Please put it in the
1:48.3	subject line in questions I wasn't supposed to ask or something like that that helps me spot them.
1:53.0	Daniel Miller Swage, Daniel Miller, S-W-A-J at gmail.com. Look forward to hearing those. Look
1:59.0	forward to starting that series. series want to dive into today's
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