Welcome to the Straight White American Jesus hosted in partnership with the Cap

Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

I'm Brad O'Neishie, Faculty of Religion at Schemart College, and I'm here with my co-host.

I'm Dan Miller, Associate Professor of Religion and Social Thought at Landmark College.

Brad, it's good to see you.

I just want to say a special thank you to our audience, Dan.

Last week, we had a very nerdy episode with a lot of religious studies,

theory, and other wonky stuff, and we apologized on air as we were doing it,

because we knew how dorky it was.

But you know what?

It's so amazing about our audience as they are.

That is what they're into.

16-year-old me, who was reading a Thomas Aquinas book at church camp,

while everyone else was playing capture of the flat, would have never known that someday

amazing folks would email me and hit me on Twitter about thanks for that very nerdy episode

that you and Dan did.

So that's pretty cool.

And Dan, you can feel validated as somebody who does nothing but read political theory,

play video games, and follow Supreme Court cases.

You should feel very good about yourself.

If I could just find a way to do all three at the same time, it's better.

If they have a video game where you have to use political theory to like, I don't know,

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