SWAJ Rewind: Stand for the Flag, Kneel for the Cross

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

News, Politics

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Is the slogan, “stand for the flag, kneel for the cross” a harmless expression of the conviction that good Christians can also be good citizens? Or if we decode it, do we find that a meaning that’s much more pernicious than that? In this episode, Dan argues that this slogan is an expression of Christian nationalism, giving voice to anti-Black racism and licensing election denial and efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus content most Mondays, bonus episodes every month, ad-free listening, access to the entire 1000+ 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

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0:00.0	Axis Mundy Axis Mundi. Hello and welcome to the series. It's in the Code, a part of the podcast, Straight White American Jesus. My name is Dan Miller, professor of Religion and Social Thought of Landmark College.
0:38.4	Pleased, as always, to be with all of you. As always, Straight White American Jesus is offered
0:43.1	in partnership with the CAP Center, UCSB. We thank them. And as always, I think all of you who
0:49.6	listen to us, who suffer through the ads that help support us, who choose to be patrons and support us
0:55.5	financially. We cannot do it without you. We thank you for that. And for this series, I think
1:00.5	all of you who continue to email me at Daniel Miller Swage, Daniel Miller, S-W-A-J at gmail.com,
1:07.2	and help to give the ideas for this series. As always, I want to pick up with a theme we have for today,
1:12.9	and I am recording this on Election Day, midterm elections.
1:17.1	At the time I'm recording this, or today, brings two things to mind.
1:20.7	One is today's topic, but before that,
1:22.9	just a final reminder of our Denver event.
1:26.4	I guess not final.
1:27.3	I guess I will post next week before the
1:29.8	event, but it's coming right up just under two weeks away, a week and a half. Our live event in
1:35.8	Denver, first ever live event, you can be there in person. We'd love to see you. You can be there
1:40.2	virtually. We'd love to know that you're doing that as well. You know the information about
1:44.4	how to find it. If you go to Bradley-Onishi.com slash nationalism, the information is there. Great lineup.
1:51.5	We've been pushing it for a while. You've probably heard about that. If not, go online,
1:55.8	check it out. And we'd love to have you there, whether in person or virtually. And I know that
2:00.3	after the events today, however they all play out, we'll have some great things to talk about with a really great slate of people.
2:07.5	Having said that, let's get into today's topic.
2:10.5	As I say, today is Election Day.
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