
The conversation includes not only historical context of Christianity's heightened focus on dehumanizing outsiders with the "settling" of America but also contemporary examples of this phenomenon. Kathryn Gin Lum discusses her forthcoming book from Harvard University Press Heathen - Religion and Race in American History. PAYNE is chair of the Department of History at North Greenville University in South Carolina.ĭr.

Look for some new art work, new music and a bit more descriptive language for what I've been aiming at these two years!īRENDAN J. The feed will stay the same and the content will be similar. The more things change, the more they stay the same.Ī note about the podcast: This will be the last in the season, we'll be returning in August but with a new name! Henceforth we'll be known as Dissident Orthodoxy. White religious folk and politicians were.wait for it.super racist and used Black voters as pawns while doing little to nothing to secure their rights.

Brendan traces the prohibition debate through the lens of Baptist and Methodist traditions, in concert with the progressive voices of the day who successfully lobbied for the 18th Amendment. Payne joins to discuss his book Gin Jesus and Jim Crow: Prohibition and the Transformation of Racial and Religious Politics in the South from LSU Press. ***Like the show? Rate and review us on Apple Podcasts!!!***ĭr. We also discuss why a better approach would be to offer substantive policies (one might even call them "concrete" or "material") instead of slogans and false promises offered each election. The historical lessons, as always are instructive to addressing both the political and the moral ramifications of the questions today. We also discuss the historical context of the abortion conversation, why Republicans were pro-choice pre-Roe, why Liberals and Leftists alike were largely pro-life at the time. Williams on why he chooses to remain in Evangelical spaces while recognizing the need for repentance and systemic change. Russell Moore's leaked letter, charging leaders within the Convention of a litany of racial and sexist comments and actions. Wade and the recently released The Politics of the Cross: A Christian Alternative to Partisanship joins Casey to discuss the recent Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) fallout from Dr. Daniel Williams, Professor of History at the University of West Georgia and author of several books including Defenders of the Unborn: The Pro-Life Movement Before Roe v. Rate/Review Dissident Orthodoxy on Apple Podcastsĭr. He is a senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University, and writes a world affairs column for the Boston Globe. An award-winning foreign correspondent, he served as the New York Times bureau chief in Nicaragua, Germany, and Turkey. Stephen Kinzer is the author of many books, including The True Flag, The Brothers, Overthrow, and All the Shah’s Men. We also discuss the potential benefits to using psychedelics in safe, responsible and therapeutic settings! Throughout the course of our conversation we also discover the reason John Lennon always remembered to thank the CIA and what accidentally sparked the brilliance of Ken Kesey and the Grateful Dead, turning out a generation of anti-war hippies. As Kinzer says, "the only one mind control worked on was Gottlieb himsef."

A decade or so of MK Ultra proved as much. But, no, there's not really such a thing as mind control. As it turns out, the CIA is not to be trusted and, yes, US intelligence has a long and unbroken history of torture.

Legendary journalist Stephen Kinzer discusses his 2019 book Poisoner in Chief: Stanley Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control.
