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Season 6, Episode 8: Jenny Mcgrath, Rev. Dr. Starlette Thomas and Danielle Castillejo speak about Christian Nationalism, Race, and History
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- The Arise Podcast
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- Oct 14, 2025
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With my buddy Jenny McGrath, and then a dear colleague and a new friend, Reverend Dr. Starlette Thomas. We're going to jump from history and Constantine and Faith and Christian nationalism, and then we're going to go into some current events. We're actually even going to talk a little bit about our families and our grandparents. I hope it sparks some interest for you around your own family history and ethnicity, and you stay curious. Here we go. The distinction between Christianity and Christian supremacy and Christian nationalism, and I have been researching Christian nationalism for probably about five or six years now. And one of my introductions to the concept of it was a book that's based on a documentary that's based on a book called Constantine Sword. And it talked about how prior to Constantine, Christians had the image of fish and life and fertility, and that is what they lived by. And then Constantine supposedly had this vision of a cross and it said, with this sign, you shall reign. And he married the church and the state. And ever since then, there's been this snowball effect of Christian empire through the Crusades, through manifest destiny, through all of these things that we're seeing play out in the United States now that aren't new.