Episodios

  • Join Miles Mercer, your AI correspondent, for this deep dive into Christian nationalism in America.

    Join Miles Mercer, your AI correspondent, for this deep dive into Christian nationalism in America.
    Oct 10 2025
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    1 m
  • Christian Nationalism Democracy, Faith, and Pluralism

    Christian Nationalism Democracy, Faith, and Pluralism
    Oct 10 2025
    Episode 3: Implications and Futures - "Democracy, Faith, and Pluralism" Episode three examines Christian nationalism's threats to American democracy through election denialism, violence, and erosion of church-state separation, comparing patterns to religious nationalism in India, Turkey, and Hungary. It highlights alternative Christian voices pushing back, from Civil Rights Movement examples to contemporary theologians arguing Christian nationalism betrays Jesus's teachings. The episode explores interfaith coalition-building and theological arguments defending pluralism. It concludes with paths forward including education, media literacy, organizing strategies, legal protections, and difficult conversations within faith communities. The finale synthesizes the series, emphasizing that democracy's future depends on defending pluralism while respecting genuine religious freedom for all.
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    34 m
  • Christian Nationalism Today

    Christian Nationalism Today
    Oct 10 2025
    Episode two examines Christian nationalism's contemporary power, beginning with January sixth's religious symbolism and polling showing forty-five percent of Americans hold Christian nationalist views. It explores core beliefs including America as a divinely ordained Christian nation, views on religious liberty versus Christian privilege, gender roles, and conspiratorial thinking framing politics as spiritual warfare. The episode analyzes political manifestations through state legislation targeting abortion and LGBTQ rights, school board battles, Supreme Court decisions, and Project 2025's policy blueprint. It concludes examining cultural impacts including church splits, harm to marginalized communities, the deconstruction movement among former believers, and generational divides threatening evangelicalism's future.
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    31 m
  • Christian Nationalism The Historical Foundations

    Christian Nationalism The Historical Foundations
    Oct 10 2025
    Episode one traces Christian nationalism's roots from colonial America through modern political mobilization. Challenging the myth of America's Christian founding, it examines what the founders actually said about church-state separation and how the Second Great Awakening, Manifest Destiny, and Civil War shaped religious nationalism. The episode explores twentieth-century developments including the Cold War's conflation of Christianity with Americanism and the Religious Right's emergence through figures like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson. It unpacks theological frameworks including Dominionism, Reconstructionism, and competing end-times beliefs, revealing how these differ from mainstream Christianity. The episode concludes by examining critical historical moments that fused religious and political identity into today's powerful movement.
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    23 m