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Oct 21, 2026
Wade FranssonHOST
This show will be well worth your time today as well.
Wade FranssonHOST
His name is David Gushee, and he is a distinguished university professor of Christian ethics at Mercer University, past president of both the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Christian Ethics.
Wade FranssonHOST
author or editor of more than 30 landmark books, including Kingdom Ethics, Changing Our Mind, one of the most difficult things for any of us to do.
Wade FranssonHOST
In fact, one of the most difficult things for God to do, change our minds, and Defending Democracy from Its Christian Enemies.
Brendan CaseGUEST
And it does seem to be really, you know, catching hold, I would say, even in quite unexpected places, like the reform tradition, say.
Brendan CaseGUEST
And yeah, so I am appearing on a panel at AAR this year, the American Academy of Religion.
Brendan CaseGUEST
There's going to be a session devoted to the future of superlapsarian Christology, which includes me and Philip Hussey and Jordan Daniel Wood, who's doing important work on Maximus as a superlapsarian thinker, Maximus the Confessor, and Vandriel.
Brendan CaseGUEST
And I'm contributing to a symposium on the website Syndicate early next year.
Joel WentzHOST
Um, [laughs] but, uh, I'll be introducing our guests here momentarily.
Joel WentzHOST
Rick Pidcock is a journalist and a weekly contributor for Baptist News Global, whose work has been featured by platforms like the American Academy of Religion, BioLogos, and Patheos.
Joel WentzHOST
He is the host of BNG's Highest Power: Church and State podcast.
Joel WentzHOST
Prior to becoming a journalist, he led worship for 20 years, which I'm sure we'll probably talk about a little bit today.
Emily PerryHOST
David is a distinguished university professor of Christian ethics at Mercer University.
Emily PerryHOST
He is past president of both the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Christian Ethics.
Emily PerryHOST
And he is the author of many books, which we'll be discussing today.
Emily PerryHOST
David's resume is long and impressive and it's all online, but I'd like to summarize it by saying that personally, I consider David to be one of the most important Christian voices out there today.
John PaulineMODERATOR
And Portland seems to have been just the right place for God to call someone like that.
John PaulineMODERATOR
I had never heard that before, but that was from Anne Taves, who at the time was president of the American Academy of Religion, so a, a very highly regarded scholar out in the world.
John PaulineMODERATOR
A second was the testimony meeting.
John PaulineMODERATOR
Someone had studied the role of women in the nineteenth century and said women did not have a voice generally in society.
Dan BarkerHOST
He founded the Straight White American Jesus podcast, Axis Mundi Media, and the Institute for Religion, Media, and Civic Engagement.
Dan BarkerHOST
He's a research associate at the UC Berkeley Center for Religion and a member of the Committee on Public Understanding at the American Academy of Religion.
Dan BarkerHOST
He often writes for outlets like Rolling Stone, Politico, and The New York Times, and he appears regularly on MSN Now.
Annie Laurie GaylorHOST
And we spoke with Dr. Onishi in 2023 about his award-winning book, Preparing for War, about the threat of Christian nationalism, and now he has a new book which, if you can imagine it, is even more scary.
Dan BarkerHOST
He founded the Straight White American Jesus podcast, Axis Mundi Media, and the Institute for Religion, Media, and Civic Engagement.
Dan BarkerHOST
He's a research associate at the UC Berkeley Center for Religion, and a member of the Committee on Public Understanding at the American Academy of Religion.
Dan BarkerHOST
He often writes for outlets like Rolling Stone, Politico, and The New York Times, and he appears regularly on MSN Now.
Annie Laurie GaylorHOST
And we spoke with Dr. Onishi in 2023 about his award-winning book, Preparing for War, about the threat of Christian nationalism, and now he has a new book which, if you can imagine it, is even more scary.
Diana PasulkaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It's called a new religious movement.
Diana PasulkaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So, you know, there's a whole category in the American Academy of Religion, which is our discipline, um, our, you know, disciplinary, uh, I don't know what you call it, like organ or whatnot, um, that studies this.
Diana PasulkaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So to me, it was totally okay, you know? So here I am, I'm already chair of my department, I'm a full professor, and I'm, I'm done with ten- you know, I have tenure.
Diana PasulkaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So I think this is-
John PaulineMODERATOR
And what was fascinating is when the ex-administ would bring up some of the charges against Ellen White, it was these non-administ scholars, one of them from Harvard, who would stand up and stand.
John PaulineMODERATOR
One of them was president of the American Academy of Religion.
John PaulineMODERATOR
And they would say, this is a remarkable woman.
John PaulineMODERATOR
This is one of the greatest women of the 19th century.