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Straight White American Jesus

SWAJ Rewind: Give Thanks

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

News, Politics

4.72K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

This week Dan talks about the popular praise and worship song, “Give Thanks With a Grateful Heart.” What is the message of this song? Written as a song of solace and hope, how does it also express an attitude that denies the reality of the things about this world and our places in it that should change? And what is the significance of expressing this attitude in the form of a song? Take a listen and find out. Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus content most Mondays, bonus episodes every month, ad-free listening, access to the entire 850-episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/ Linktree: https://linktr.ee/StraightWhiteJC Order Brad's book: https://bookshop.org/a/95982/9781506482163 Subscribe to Teología Sin Vergüenza Subscribe to American Exceptionalism Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Axis Moondy

0:10.0

Huh, have you ever wondered what a sandwich sounds like?

0:17.0

Not much to it is there?

0:20.0

Unless, of course, it it's a Walker's sandwich.

0:23.6

Mmm, that is good.

0:26.6

Now that's what Asani should sound like.

0:29.6

Go all crisp in with walkers.

0:31.6

Delicious.

0:33.6

Delicious. Hello.

0:55.1

Hello, welcome to It's in the Code, a series that is part of the podcast, Straight White American Jesus.

1:00.1

My name is Dan Miller, Professor of Religion and Social Thought at Landmark College. I am your host.

1:05.1

Delighted to be with you as always. I want to begin by thanking all of you who listen, all of you who support me, who support the work here, the work that we do on this podcast. I recently came

1:10.6

back from the American Academy of Religion Conference, had a great time there, and I want to just give a shout out to all the people I met there who know about our work, know what we're doing. We're so encouraging about all of that. So thank you to all of you. As always, this series builds on your insights, your thoughts, your questions, your comments.

1:28.1

You can reach me at Daniel Miller Swage, Daniel Miller, S-W-A-J at gmail.com.

1:33.4

Welcome anything you want to send my way.

1:36.3

And with that in mind, we are now immediately before Thanksgiving.

1:40.0

I was going to do something else today.

1:41.6

Had some technical issues that kind of blew that up, so you've got me again.

1:46.1

But I gave, you know, we did an episode last time on grateful, on being grateful and the,

1:51.6

the sort of obligation to express gratitude.

1:54.8

And I threw out the idea of thinking that, you know, it feels like there's a lot there,

1:58.0

and maybe there's more, uh, more to talk about.

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