Episode 10: The War on Christmas

☕️ 🎄 From Christ to coffee, what’s going on with the “War on Christmas”?

This year’s Starbucks holiday cup & ad is receiving criticism for featuring two people, women in the television ad, holding hands. Photo credit: Starbucks

Happy Holidays from This Week in Dystopia!

’Tis the season for gifts, holiday cheer, and divisive arguments about the role of religion in America. Host Chris Robichaud invites Lauren Kerby, Ph.D., to join him for a discussion about religious conservatives, Christmas, and coffee cups.

Lauren Kerby

Lauren R. Kerby earned her Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Boston University. Her dissertation, “Saving History: White Evangelical Identity and Christian Heritage Tours of Washington, D.C.,” analyzes the way that contemporary white American evangelicals use history as a political resource. She is currently a Research Associate at Harvard Divinity School’s Religious Literacy Project and an instructor in the Religious Studies and Education Certificate Program at Harvard Extension School. She has also taught writing-intensive religion courses in Boston University’s undergraduate Writing Program. Lauren earned a B.A. in Religion with a minor in Classics from Colgate University in 2011 and an M.A. in Religious Studies from Boston University in 2014.

Holiday Music

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