Axis Mundi. You're going to be here. Hello and welcome to the series it's in the, part of the podcast Straight White American Jesus.

My name is Dan Miller, I'm Professor of Religion and Social Thought at Landmark College.

I am your host joining you for the first time in 2024 and in the midst of my I'm not going to call

it a resolution I don't like New Year's resolutions for a number of reasons but my my

commitment my plan I'm doing anything I can to avoid the word resolution to catch up on

listener emails is underway so if you have, hopefully you'll hear from you soon. I'm getting

through those before classes start up again. But as always, I want to thank everybody who

listens. Those of you who give such great insight, questions, you know, pointers to new topics, please keep those coming.

You can reach me at Daniel Miller swash, Daniel Miller, SWAJ at gmail.com, and also working on developing my own

sub-stack that will be coming out soon. It'll be tied in with Straightwide American Jesus,

also focused on this series, so know keep your ears out as a

were for that more information coming up later this month so when we get

started today I want to revisit a topic and really I'm going to devote a few episodes to this.

I've been working on this for a while, thinking about it for some time.

But I've done a number of episodes. Those of you who have listened for a long time know this others I invite you to go back take a look

Episodes related to the concept of the Bible as it operates within popular American Christianity

or conservative Christian high control religious context. I think there's a lot of overlap between those two things.

But we've done episodes on things like the concept of the Bible Church or what somebody means when they're saying they're just being biblical or have used the language of being biblical that's the kind of language that scholars like me might use to describe those things.

And I've had a number of follow-up questions that people have had about this.

And one issue that I've raised in episodes, I think I've raised it here in this series. I've raised it in

episodes that I've done with Brad is in opposition to the language of

literalist traditions. In other words, you will get people who will describe

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