Hello, welcome to Straight White American Jesus.

My name is Brad O'Neishie, faculty and religion.

It's good more college.

And this shows hosted in partnership with the Cap Center at the University of California,

Santa Barbara.

I wanted to weigh in today on a couple things that are intimately related in my mind.

The first is the scandal surrounding the late apologist Ravi Zacharias.

For those of you who are not familiar with Zacharias's work, Ravi's work,

he was sort of considered to be one of the greatest apologists for Christianity.

Of his generation, he was somebody who was able to defend the faith and

argue for the legitimacy of Christianity.

All over the world was, as I'll get to in a minute, recognized for this by many of

the sort of elite influencers in the Christian world, or at least the evangelical world.

A man with enormous influence who literally preached and lectured to millions,

had a popular radio show, was heard across the world.

And he has passed away just a short time ago, about a year ago,

but what's come to light are just the, I don't even have the words,

infuriating, enraging news about his sexual abuse and exploitation of many women.

So I want to talk about that.

And then I want to talk about how one of the flip sides of this is the use of the Jezebel label

and how that has been used in reference to Kamala Harris in recent weeks.

And so let's start with Ravi Zacharias.

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