Hello friends just a note to say that we are going to be

posting our episodes every Tuesday and every Friday just like we have been for

months no change there

if you would like more updates from us we've been doing kind of daily or almost daily updates,

and we are moving those to our Patreon feed, and so if you'd like to receive short audio or video or text kind of updates from Straight White American Jesus on

Mondays or Wednesdays or Thursdays. Go ahead and sign up for our Patreon. You can sign up for

as low as two dollars a month and if that doesn't work you can email me

and we'll just make sure to get you access.

Thanks for your support.

Dan and I are going to get into our weekly roundup and we're going over just sort of

a huge list of things related to religion,

politics and the coronavirus as they have happened this week. Welcome to Straight White American Jesus. My name is Brad Enishi, Associate Professor, Religious Studies, Skidmore College, and I'm here with my co-host.

I'm Dan Miller. I'm associate professor of religion and social thought at Landmark College.

Good to see you Brad even in troubled times I guess.

Well you know we were just talking and it seems like this is a week where we had a lot of politics and obviously pandemic news-related stories and this is one of those weeks where it seemed a religion was like raising its hand like oh I need to come back in the conversation please don't forget me so

We got a lot to talk about

Yeah, and so I think this week right we're planning on know, we've had this kind of format we've been following.

It is, it's like pandemics, suddenly it's like all the really sort of crazy religious stuff is like we're going to come back out and make sure you listen to us so

and then we're just going to bounce back and forth like there's like a literally a laundry list of

of just crazy religion and politics stuff to talk about this week.

So why don't you start us off? What was one of the first things you would like or that

got your attention that you'd like us to talk about? So there's a lot and we're not going in any specific order,

...