SWAJ Rewind: It's In the Code Ep. 54: Suffering and Persecution

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

News, Politics

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 21 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/ Why do conservative American Christians and Christian nationalists use the rhetoric of being “attacked” and “persecuted”? Why do they perceive themselves to be “suffering” in the contemporary United States, when they experience pronounced social, cultural, and legal privilege? And how do these ideas link up with the broader valorization of “suffering” within some forms of Christian identity? Dan takes on these issues in this week’s episode. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/StraightWhiteJC Order Brad's book: https://bookshop.org/a/95982/9781506482163 Check out BetterHelp and use my code SWA for a great deal: www.betterhelp.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:10.0	That's va.ta.com slash geo. Hello and welcome to It's in the Code, a series that is part of the podcast, Straight White American Jesus.
1:34.1	I am your host, Dan Miller, Professor of Religion and Social Thought at Lamarck College.
1:38.5	Back after a couple of week absence, I had the opportunity to take a small vacation in Greece for a little over a week
1:46.7	with my partner. I've never been first kid-free trip since we had kids, which means in almost
1:52.8	14 years, so that was really great. Cut a lot of pretty funny emails from folks. Wishing me
1:57.9	a good trip, really appreciated that. but glad to be back glad to be back
2:02.7	with all of you uh as always you're the reason that we do this we can't do what we do without you
2:07.9	and so we thank you for your support thank you for those of you who are patrons uh those of you
2:14.1	who donate to us those of you who listen to the ads and support us in that way.
2:19.3	And as always, I think particularly with this series, those of you who reach out with ideas and topics,
2:24.3	please keep those coming.
2:25.5	Daniel Miller Swage, Daniel Miller, S-W-A-J at gmail.com.
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