Voiceover clip in intro used with permission by C. If you enjoy our show, could you take a moment to rate and review the podcast on your platform of choice. If you’re thinking of starting a podcast you need to connect with Eric! A scholar of American Christianity presents a seventy-five-year history of evangelicalism that identifies the forces that have turned Donald Trump into a hero of the Religious Right. Want to help us with our future episodes of This Is Not Church Podcast? Join us on Patreon where you will get access to exclusive patron content such as early access to episode, videos of upcoming episodes, and live Q&A sessions.Īlso check out our website for upcoming interviews and blog postsĮach episode of This Is Not Church Podcast is expertly engineered by our producer The Podcast Doctor Eric Howell. You can connect with us on Facebook Instagram Twitter Her most recent book is Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation (which was just released in paperback). She has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Religion News Service, and Christianity Today, and has been interviewed on NPR, CBS, and the BBC, among other outlets. Though theoretically evangelicalism is a set of. Jesus and John Wayne is the history of evangelicalism, tracing the movement from its roots in the early twentieth century to its modern-day iteration.
She holds a PhD from the University of Notre Dame and her research focuses on the intersection of gender, religion, and politics. That was exactly how I felt reading Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation, by Kristin Kobes Du Mez. Her most recent book, Jesus and John Wayne: How White. Kristin Kobes Du Mez is a New York Times bestselling author and Professor of History and Gender Studies at Calvin University. and Christianity Today, and has been interviewed on NPR, CBS, and the BBC, among other outlets. (folders 25-14,15) Wayne Ward, editor of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminarys Review and. Twitter | | you enjoy the podcast, be sure to leave a review.In this episode we talk with Kristin Du Mez. Christianity Today International, incorporated in 1955. And Jesus will be upheld as supreme.Ĭheck out Dr. Jesus and John Wayne is a sweeping, revisionist history of the last seventy-five years of white evangelicalism, revealing how evangelicals have worked to replace the Jesus of the Gospels with an idol of rugged masculinity and Christian nationalismor in the words of one modern chaplain, with a spiritual badass. Third, Jesus did not gloss over sin in the lives of the women he met. Theology in the Raw Conference – Exiles in BabylonĪt the Theology in the Raw conference, we will be challenged to think like exiles about race, sexuality, gender, critical race theory, hell, transgender identities, climate change, creation care, American politics, and what it means to love your democratic or republican neighbor as yourself. JESUS AND JOHN WAYNE HOW WHITE EVANGELICALS CORRUPTED A FAITH AND FRACTURED A NATION. In this episode, I talk to Kristin about her book and the responses it has elicited. Her most recent book, Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation, has swatted a hornets nest and sparked all kinds of interesting and much needed conversations.
As such, the church started to connect the faith to the sense of ‘rugged masculinity’ which pervaded the United States (think Teddy Roosevelt). Wilsey Tuesday, FebruDu Mez’s work reads less as history and more as ideology, and an ideology with little in the way of faith, hope, or charity. According to Du Mez, Christians at the end of the 19th century began to see the faith as too feminine to remain relevant in society. Probably a Heresy About Jesus, Says Survey, Christianity Today. She has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Religion News Service, and Christianity Today, and has been interviewed on NPR, CBS, and the BBC, among other outlets. Jesus and John Wayne: A Review Du Mez offers no proposed solutions, no path forward, and no appeal to the gospel. Religion, Politics, and Traditionalist Gender Ideology, Canadian Review of Sociology. She holds a PhD from the University of Notre Dame and her research focuses on the intersection of gender, religion, and politics. Kristin Kobes Du Mez is a New York Times bestselling author and Professor of History and Gender Studies at Calvin University.