Blake Chastain mostly publishes on Substack now. Profile picture
Host: @exvangelicalpod; writer, Post-Ev Post. Writing a book, doing other things. Started #exvangelical, sry/yw. He/him. Opinions mine.
Nov 2, 2020 27 tweets 10 min read
I've spent the last few months conducting and publishing interviews with some brilliant thinkers on white evangelicalism & Christian nationalism on my podcast Powers & Principalities. I hope people can use it as a resource, long after this election cycle.
open.spotify.com/show/3KLVkLLHW… Listen to my discussion with @dianabutlerbass about the history of fundamentalism, as well as a discussion about trauma. open.spotify.com/episode/6py4AQ…
Aug 4, 2020 4 tweets 4 min read
@C_Stroop @SuperHungryPod @JesseDamiani having just had an unexpected convo w/ a conservative relation (I went to school to become a minister (I didn't), studied US religious & political history, and have catalogued stories of people leaving evangelicalism for 4 years on @exvangelicalpod), it's very hard. @C_Stroop @SuperHungryPod @JesseDamiani @exvangelicalpod they have been conditioned by decades of Fox News & Limbaugh & worse to look for grievances and exploit them when conversing with liberals. Broad emotional comments with no bearing in history or reality. Appeals to authority and "tradition" are paramount.