Combating Christian Nationalism

A livestream event

No matter what the results are on November 5th, we have work to do to combat Christian Nationalism.

It’s not just conservative politicians or evangelical lobbyists that are a threat. A dangerously narrow interpretation of “Christian values” is responsible for the Palestinian genocide and inhumane border enforcement, neither of which go away with a left-leaning political system.

All radical souls are in this together to fight for each other’s rights.

To prepare, join us for a live filming of the Radical Soul podcast live following the election. Tune in at youtube.com/@radicalsoul on Wednesday November 6 at 5pm PT/8pm ET.

We’ll discuss:

• The history of Christian nationalism in politics

• Activism strategies based on the results

• Communal and self-care strategies

• Your questions (ask them live on YouTube!)

Meet the Guests

lenny duncan is a writer, speaker, scholar, and media producer working at the forefront of racial justice in America. They are the author of Dear Church, United States of Grace, Dear Revolutionaries, and Psalms of My People.

In Dear Revolutionaries, lenny offers a series of peace-building practices that will give readers the tools to build, guide, and care for spiritual community in a world beyond the church.

A PhD student in Historical and Cultural Studies of Religion, lenny's current research is what they have termed "a peoples history of magic." lenny is originally from West Philadelphia, has hitchhiked thousands of miles on American byways, and makes home up and down the I-5 to see found family, and in the Bay for research. 

Rev. Redeem Robinson is an openly queer minister, political and civil rights activist, and former school board member. He started the Black Lives Matter Chapter in Tucson in 2015 and was involved in 2020 through his former congregation, Ebenezer Church during the George Floyd protest. In November of 2022, he was appointed to be a commissioner on the Los Angeles County Commission on HIV by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors where he brings his ten years of HIV/AIDS ministry experience to the table. Redeem has worked on many political campaigns for federal and statewide races and helped organize around immigrant rights, police accountability, voting rights, climate change, reproductive rights, LGBTQ+ rights, and the impeachment of Donald Trump with NextGen America's Need to Impeach campaign.

Blake Chastain is the host of the Exvangelical and Powers & Principalities podcasts, and writer of The Post-Evangelical Post newsletter. His first book, Exvangelical & Beyond: How American Christianity Went Radical and the Movement That's Fighting Back, was just published in September.

In Exvangelical and Beyond, Blake offers a critical history of the political ties in the rise of US evangelicalism, and how former evangelicals are finding progressive community to heal and fight back.

Blake coined the #exvangelical hashtag alongside the launch of the Exvangelical podcast in July 2016. Since then, exvangelical conversations and communities have proliferated online across social networks like Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and Reddit.

Meet the Host

Jera Brown is the creator of Radical Soul, a podcast and newsletter that offers interviews and reflections about spiritual leaders and concepts that center justice, offer healing from religious trauma, and reject white and Christian supremacy. They’ve worked as a freelance writer and fetish service provider. They view their sex work as a spiritual practice and queerness is their primary ethical and spiritual lens. They’re currently working on a novel with their brother and a book of essays about shame.