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Straight White American Jesus

Mild at Heart: Love, Sex, and Masculinity After Purity Culture: Ep 8

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

News, Politics

4.72K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Brad uses recent comments by Josh Hawley to talk about what people mean when they say that the country (and the church) needs to return to masculinity. Brad argues that this is a common trope in Christian nationalism and the theme opens the door for seeing how Christian nationalism is the original purity culture. 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/ Linktree: https://linktr.ee/StraightWhiteJC Order Brad's book: https://www.amazon.com/Preparing-War-Extremist-Christian-Nationalism/dp/1506482163 SWAJ Apparel is here! https://straight-white-american-jesus.creator-spring.com/listing/not-today-uncle-ron To Donate: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/BradleyOnishi Venmo: @straightwhitejc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This fall, get ready for on God's campus. Voices from the Queer Underground podcast about

0:13.7

white Christian supremacy and being queer in the most conservative campuses in the country.

0:19.5

Join Chloe as the $90 reads in God We Trust. Paul.

0:24.4

Especially the text about homosexuality and abortion.

0:28.7

And I adhered to that biblical document until I was 19 when I had my first relationship

0:34.0

with a woman. As they reveal a roadmap to change from the underbelly of the church's best kept secrets.

0:46.5

You're listening to an irreverent podcast.

0:50.2

Visit irreverent.fm for more content from our amazing lineup of creators.

0:58.4

What's up, y'all? Welcome to Milded Heart, our series on love, masculinity, and sex. After

1:13.2

Peer to Culture, my name is Brad O'Niche. And today I want to just read a little bit of an essay

1:19.0

that I have written, actually wrote a while ago and never published it. This is an excerpt.

1:24.6

And for me, it really exemplifies some of the things that I've come to understand about

1:29.7

what Peer to Culture taught me and what evangelicalism taught me about love and marriage,

1:34.0

how the soulmate myth imbued my understanding of my relationship,

1:39.6

and just how I healed from it all. Some of you may know, but I shared this on the show. I was

1:45.6

married at 20 to somebody I'd been dating since I was 14. And so we got divorced when I was 24.

1:53.9

And living in England. And so I've always looked at that period in England as the time I lost both

1:59.9

my soulmates. I de-converted or deconstructed from evangelicalism and my marriage ended. And so

2:06.2

I was 6,000 miles from home and really just trying to cope with both of the ones leaving my life.

2:12.6

And so this essay is titled Morning the One. And it touches on a lot of things we've been talking

2:19.5

about in this series. On the coach from Oxford to Heathrow, the world had been transformed,

2:26.3

or perhaps what was there all along was finally revealed. The chip shops, dilapidated churches,

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