We knew that this would happen. It was unlikely that 17 Republican Senators would join with Democrats to convict Trump during his second impeachment. But when the verdict came in on Saturday, February 13, 2021--just over a month after a violent insurrection at the Capitol in support of the former president--it was still infuriating.

History bears witness that white supremacy and Christianity in America are inextricably linked. White supremacy isn’t a fringe idea; it is the status quo. White evangelicals told on themselves because they chose to absolve their own guilt when the moment came to speak. Instead of defending the voiceless and the powerless, they sought to clear their own collective name.

We started the Cultural Artifacts episodes in 2015 because we wanted to encompass the awesome things -- books, albums, podcasts, sermons, people, events, movies, TV shows, and so on -- that we’ve consumed in a given year. (Here’s the kicker: it doesn’t have to come out in the given year. It just has to be consumed in the given year.