Sh*t Happens with Tad Delay
In this episode, Tad and Ryan process Fox News propaganda, fascism, evangelicalism, COVID-19 conspiracy theories, anxiety, essential workers, and the Book of Job.
Tad Delay is the author of The Cynic & the Fool: The Unconscious in Theology & Politics and God Is Unconscious: Psychoanalysis & Theology.
His latest book Against: What Does the White Evangelical Want? explores trends and underlying desires of the most quintessentially American faith—a theological improvisation around whiteness. In five chapters—Against Future, Against Knowledge, Against Sexuality, Against Reality, and Against Society—the book conjoins history and psychoanalysis to explore a dangerous religio-political coalition. There is also a ten-part podcast of Against. He holds a PhD Religion as well as an MA Philosophy and MA Theology is a professor of religious studies and a faculty member with several philosophy and humanities departments in Denver.
