With Dan on vacation, Brad opens the episode with a hilarious story from Obama's election night in 2008. He then conveys insight from Frederick Douglass's "What to the Slave is Fourth of July?" This leads to discussion of two distressing stories. One, (15:00) the Scotus decision in Espinoza v. Montana, which opens the doors for collapsing the barrier between church and state, and will funnel money to religious schools rife with abuse and scandal. Then, (26:05) the scandal at Menlo Church where the head pastor John Ortberg knowingly allowed his son to have access to youth after his son admitted to feelings of sexual attraction to children. Brad then transitions (33:12) to discussing the symbolic gestures evangelical churches are making on race and the call to do more by scholars like Glenn Bracey. Brad touches on Robert Jones' idea that White Supremacy is a public health threat because it makes white folks feel invincible--even against COVID. Finally, (42:07) Brad discusses why Trump is losing voters and what the data says about his polling on COVID, race, and other issues.

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