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So cool. Welcome to Straight Wide American Jesus. My name is Brad Onishi, Faculty Religion.

Let's get more college. Our show is hosted in partnership with the Cap Center at UCSB and I'm here today with my co-host.

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

It's good to see you, Brad, in like Balmy, Mid April, where I'm looking at like four inches of snow out my window here in Massachusetts.

I'm sure you're really sad. You're not physically sitting in upstate New York right now.

There's always that bitter late April snow. Like everybody, there's always the like 68 degree day in April in that Northeast region.

Everyone's like spring is here. And then like a week later, it's snowing and everyone is so bitter because in February, you're like, yeah, it's supposed to snow.

But April 16, April 26. Yeah, you get pretty mad about it.

Before we get going today, Dan, I want to say we have reached a trifecta with the Holy Trinity.

And by that, I mean, Straight Wide American Jesus has been attacked by or mentioned, I'm sorry, there's, there's people on Twitter who will get an upset if I say attack.

So mentioned by Albert Mueller, Southern Baptist Convention, your old, your old home there, focus on the family, Jim daily.

And now Timothy Keller has responded and is on a tweet storm against Straight Wide American Jesus as we speak.

And so the gospel coalition. So we have the gospel coalition, focus on the family, Southern Baptist Convention.

I take that as a sign that we are doing something right. So I wanted to mention that as kind of a nice, a nice achievement that we've got for the last month.

All right, today we want to talk about I think a couple of things that are in our minds related. We want to talk about police brutality and the shooting of Dante right and of others. There's, I mean, there's so many.

There's so many acts of cruelty in this country that it seems like a police shooting is always coverage is always interrupted by shooting of a news of a mass shooting and then the mass shooting news is interrupted by news of a new police shooting.

So we want to talk about that. We want to talk about white replacement theory that Taco Carlson is touting on his show and we want to talk about evangelicals extending the pandemic by refusing to get the vaccine.

And so I want to start with this, Dan. I have been feeling some despair if I'm honest this week, just in light of all of the news and tragedies related to police brutality to the murder of young.

I mean, there's a 13 year old boy who was killed and the footage and came out just yesterday in Chicago. We woke up today to eight people being the victims of another mass shooting.

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