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Straight White American Jesus

Mini-Interview: Dr. Ruth Braunstein on Resisting Evangelical Extremism

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

News, Politics

4.71.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2025

⏱️ 19 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 800-episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/ Brad speaks with Dr. Ruth Braunstein about her new podcast on the evangelicals resisting extremism within their communities. https://www.ruthbraunstein.com/podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Yeah. lines only. What's up y'all, Brad here, and wanted to bring you something today that is short but sweet and hopefully good.

0:57.7

And that's a mini interview with Dr. Ruth Bronstein, who is the creator of a new podcast called When the Wolves Came.

1:05.7

The podcast is a six-part podcast that really follows the rise of Christian nationalism, which is, of course,

1:13.2

a story we've heard many times before, but it goes inside evangelical churches where this

1:19.3

Maga Church movement has arisen over the last decade. The story is really one of evangelicals

1:26.5

inside the movement who have decided to resist the

1:29.7

Maga extremism and reverence of Donald Trump.

1:34.7

And I'm not going to lie to everybody.

1:37.7

It's going to be really up front.

1:38.8

I think there are stories out there of this kind of quote unquote evangelical resistance. And not all of them

1:46.6

are really compelling to me and not all of the things that are being made about this kind of story

1:52.4

are compelling to me. And I think one of the reasons is there's sometimes an effort to

1:57.3

whitewash them a little bit, to kind of make certain evangelicals not complicit in what's

2:05.7

happened over the last decade in their churches and in our politics.

2:11.5

But today I bring you somebody who I think is able to tell that story with nuance and to do it in a way that doesn't look

2:20.0

to remove the burden of responsibility from certain people. But instead, tries to provide a little

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