White Evangelicals and Mass Incarceration

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

News, Politics

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Brad speaks with Aaron Griffith, Assistant Professor of History at Whitworth University. They discuss his book, God's Law and Order: The Politics of Punishment in Evangelical America. Griffith links the rise of the American carceral state to shifts in evangelical theology and anthropology on the 20th century, showing that the individualistic and punitive ethos of evangelical thinking influenced the rise of mass incarceration in the USA. They discuss figures like Billy Graham who was a conduit of this thinking, and discuss how it remains a factor in our contemporary public square. Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus episodes, ad-free listening, access to the entire 500-episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/ Linktree: https://linktr.ee/StraightWhiteJC Order Brad's new book: https://www.amazon.com/Preparing-War-Extremist-Christian-Nationalism/dp/1506482163 SWAJ Apparel is here! https://straight-white-american-jesus.creator-spring.com/listing/not-today-uncle-ron To Donate: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/BradleyOnishi Venmo: @straightwhitejc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This fall, get ready for on God's campus. Voices from the Queer Underground podcast about
0:13.7	white Christian supremacy and being queer in the most conservative campuses in the country.
0:19.5	Join Chloe as the $90 reads in God We Trust. Paul.
0:24.4	Especially the text about homosexuality and abortion.
0:28.7	And I adhered to that biblical document until I was 19 when I had my first relationship with
0:34.2	the woman. As they reveal a roadmap to change from the underbelly of the church's best kept secrets.
0:46.5	You're listening to an irreverent podcast.
0:50.2	Visit irreverent.fm for more content from our amazing lineup of creators.
0:57.9	Welcome to Straight White American Jesus. My name is Brad Donishi. Faculty of the University of
1:12.5	San Francisco. I'm joined today by a great guest Aaron Griffith who is an assistant professor
1:21.5	of modern American history with university up in Washington. Someone who I'm going to embarrass
1:28.2	just won a great award 2021 emerging public intellectual award, which is pretty cool.
1:34.3	And we're here today to talk about Aaron's book, God's Law and Order, the politics of punishment
1:39.4	in evangelical America. So Aaron, thanks for joining me. Thanks for having me. It's great to be here.
1:45.0	Even more glad that you joined me because I know you did some holiday travel that was a little bit
1:50.8	a little bit nightmarish. And so you made it. You're out of the car out of the plane in a warm
1:56.2	house and ready to talk about God's Law and Order. That's right. I honestly, I would talk about
2:02.5	anything from a from a non-plane situation right now. So we can talk about whatever you want.
2:11.9	All right, I'm going to keep that in the back of my head. So we'll see where this conversation goes.
2:15.0	We can only go up my last my last 12 hours. Well, last week we had a great guest Robert Mason
2:22.8	who talked about Romans 13. And we talked a lot about law and order and the way Romans 13 has been
2:28.6	used and abused throughout Christian history and so on. Today we're talking about your book,
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