Jesus and john wayne podcast
Thanks for reading, and hopefully for listening. My dream would be for Robert to listen to this and then do another podcast with his own flair and ad pivots. I would love to interact about this with you guys. I’ve decided to listen to them again and then retread the book in light of Robert’s fantastic two parter here. There is a 4 part podcast that I will link below that is an interview with her that goes over the major themes of the book. While it is written from a Christian perspective, I think it’s valuable for people outside the faith to see the history of American faith through a woman who is taking the church to task for its complicity in the hatefulness of our political discourse. She talks about how we replaced love, grace, and empathy with determination, strength, and anger. I think this is a fantastic look at the marriage of the political right and Christianity, but from the side of how some Christian leaders would have used their connections with these capitalist promoters to push their own agenda. In it the author looks back at American Christianity and why it became so uniquely obsessed with bullies and a fictionalized version of masculinity. There is a fantastic book that came out recently called Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation. However, as the title states, this is only one half of the story. This has been a hard topic to listen to because while my specific branch of Christianity was never touched by the health and wealth gospel, the machinations of these assholes has touches everyone I’ve ever been in ministry with. Mods, forgive the links I’m not trying to promote other creators but help show what I think is a more complete picture. I’ve been wanting to share these resources with the BTB community for awhile now and in light of This great two parter I figured it was the best time to do so. Hey all, this is a bit of a long post and has some links at the bottom. If that grabs your interest, consider listening to the rest of them. I wanted to add that I just finished re listening to all of them and if you don’t want to listen to all 4 episodes I would recommend the last one because it deals directly with Trump, Jan 6, and the Christian Right’s response to it. I’m super happy Robert is pulling from the book because its probably the best historical explanation of current day American Christianity that I’ve ever read in nearly 20 years of ministry.ĮDIT: Glad to see the response to this so far.
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Her writing has appeared in a number of outlets including The Washington Post, and she regularly blogs at Patheos’ Anxious Bench.Hey all, I checked with the mods for the best way of bringing this back up and so I’m just reposting it below. She is also the author of A New Gospel for Women: Katharine Bushnell and the Challenge of Christian Feminism (Oxford 2015). Kristin Kobes Du Mez is a professor in the history department at Calvin University. The result is a book that covers a century of cultural and intellectual development, and gives us a sense of how Trump turned out to be the right man for the job of winning the Evangelical vote. The book traces a century of Evangelical ideas around masculinity, gender, family and identity, and how these ideas became intertwined with ideas around nationalism, militarism, foreign policy and race. This is the argument my guest today, Kristin Kobes Du Mez, makes in her new book Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation(Liveright 2020).
However, some would argue that the Evangelical support of Trump makes total sense given that, in spite of his supposed moral failings, he was just the sort of man they were looking for. The fact that a thrice-married reality-TV star has been able to hold onto the ‘moral majority’ through thick and thin the last few years seems to many to be a sort of cultural contradiction. They discuss themes of her book, which surveys the history of White Evangelicalism’s idealization of militant white patriarchy. One of the most perplexing elements of Donald Trumps’s 2016 electoral victory was the overwhelming support he received from white Evangelicals, a demographic that has stubbornly clung to him in the face of everything he has done. Kristin Kobes Du Mez, author of 'Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation,' speaks with Faithfully Magazines Associate Editor Timothy Isaiah Cho.