Donald Trump & Evangelical Masculinity: An Interview with Dr. Kristin Kobes Du Mez

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🗓️ 18 March 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Over the last century, we've baked politics, masculinity, and religion together. In this episode, Keith interviews https://kristindumez.com/ (Dr. Kristin Kobes Du Mez) about her book https://kristindumez.com/books/jesus-and-john-wayne/ (Jesus and John Wayne). She explores how evangelical concepts of masculinity and political playbook merged together to bring about the rise of Donald Trump. If you like this episode, make sure not to miss https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/podcasts/is-it-okay-for-christians-to-be-nationalists/ (Is It Okay for Christians to be Nationalists?) Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it with others, so others can find it too. To learn more, visit our https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/ (website) and follow us on https://www.facebook.com/TenMinuteBibleTalks (Facebook), https://www.instagram.com/thecrossingcomo/ (Instagram), and https://twitter.com/tmbtpodcast (Twitter) @TheCrossingCOMO and @TenMinuteBibleTalks. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now.

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.
0:10.0	My name is Patrick Miller. And I'm Keith Simon.
0:13.0	If this podcast has been helping you in your walk with God,
0:17.0	would you take five seconds to help us?
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0:25.0	I send us messages.
0:28.0	follow Keith and I and send us messages.
0:30.0	We'd love to follow you back and see what's happening in your life.
0:35.2	Hey we have a special guest on Tim Minute Bible Talks the person that I'm really
0:38.6	excited to talk with. She is the author of Jesus and John Wayne, how white evangelicals corrupted a faith and
0:46.5	fractured a nation. Her name is Kristen Kobus Dumang. She is a professor of history and
0:51.6	gender studies at Calvin University. She holds a professor of history and gender studies at Calvin University.
0:53.6	She holds a PhD from the University of Notre Dame and her research focuses on the
0:58.7	intersection of gender religion and politics. Welcome, Kristen.
1:04.0	Thank you.
1:05.0	Thank you for having me. So this book, Jesus and John Wayne,
1:08.0	it is a spicy book.
1:10.0	Have you gotten a lot of people who thought it was kind of controversial or what's been the reaction?
1:15.7	I expected more controversy up front than I experienced. Within days of the book publishing, I started getting letters.
1:23.1	People think I get a lot of hate mail.
1:24.7	I actually don't, almost none.
1:26.6	But I've gotten now hundreds and hundreds of letters
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