Welcome to Straightwide American Jesus hosted in partnership with the Cap Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

My name is Brad O'Nishi, Associate Professor, Religious Studies, Skidmore College, and I am here with my co-host today.

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

It's good to see you, Brad, after a couple weeks. I guess I'm seeing you the listeners probably aren't but it's good to be talking again after a couple weeks off

That ended up being sort of unexpectedly tumultuous and I feel like we say that every single week but here we are again.

You know I was thinking about this last night it feels like we took it feels like today is like the

championship game because like they're everything and I'm not saying that lightly friends like I'm not trying to make like light of what happened the other day what I'm saying is like everything we talk about in this podcast Dan like came to a flying head the other day and there's so much

to I mean I was like last night up late got up early like trying to figure out how we

organize all of what happened into a coherent sort of analysis for the next hour.

Part of me was just like we should just make this a seven hour marathon because there's that much to talk about.

But it really does feel like we were set to play

in the championship game and we were like,

you know what we're gonna do?

Let's just take three weeks off before that.

No practice.

No, you know, no thinking about the game.

Let's just take three weeks off and then like all of a sudden here we are.

So it's good to be back.

It's we've had a couple weeks off and as we sort of ease into 2021.

2021 is doing anything but making it easy on us.

So, Dan, let's just get into it.

There was an insurrection on January 6th at the United States Capitol.

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