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Welcome to the straight white American Jesus.

My name is Brad O'Neishie, Faculty University of San Francisco here today with my co-host.

Dan Miller, Professor of Religion and Social Thought at Landmark College.

Nice to see you Brad and you're not like all bundled up this time.

So it looks like maybe, you know, you're warm and we're recording a little later to

I often see Brad in the morning kind of leery eyed and like wearing like a puffer jacket

as if it's 30 degrees. So you look more comfortable.

It usually is 30 degrees because I record in a storage closet and there is no heating

and no insulation. I want to say thank you to you and Anika for holding down the

fort last week with a great episode. I was at the summit for religious freedom and DC

and I want to announce something at the top here.

I'm going to be releasing a special series of interviews I did at the summit on

separation of church and state and religious freedom for all.

So I interviewed 12 people who talked about what the separation of church and state and

religious freedom means for them and these are everybody from student activists,

secular organizers, people who are fighting for responsible home education and the wake of

like Christian homeschooling and the atrocities of that, leaders of religious leaders,

leaders of the Unitarian Church and rabbis. So it's a really amazing series because one of the

things we talked about at the summit Dan is that religious freedom and the separation of church

and state is really one of the things that like you get like the things we care about, reproductive

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