Jesus and Evangelical Politics

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🗓️ 16 April 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Sarah and David (who is stepping in for Steve this week) talk to the author of Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation, Kristin Du Mez, about how the definition of masculinity for white Evangelical men has had a damaging impact on the whole country. “Once you have the eyes to see this, it’s hard not to see its pervasive reach,” she said. “The politics and the faith are so intertwined, and that’s what I try to pull through, those threads, and see how the influence really does go back and forth.” Plus, find out what friendly, neighborhood, sweater-wearing, former PBS television star is surprisingly not impressive to the mainstream Evangelical community. Show Notes: -Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation -Kristin’s Blog “The Anxious Bench” -Kristin’s next book on Christian femininity announcement -Kristin’s Twitter -Donald Trump riding a velociraptor -Kristin’s Faculty page at Calvin University -“A Man For All Seasons” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Dispatch podcast.
0:02.4	I'm your host, Sarah Isger.
0:04.0	Joined this week by David French.
0:06.5	And we are talking to Kristen Dumay.
0:09.2	She is a professor of history at Calvin University
0:12.7	and has written the book Jesus and John Wayne,
0:16.1	how white evangelicals corrupted a faith
0:18.3	and fractured a nation.
0:19.7	The paperback is coming out in June,
0:22.0	so you can pre-order it now.
0:23.7	Or you can enjoy the hard copy as David and I did.
0:27.1	This is going to be a fascinating discussion.
0:30.4	This is going to be a fascinating discussion.
0:30.4	This is going to be a fascinating discussion.
0:44.7	Let's dive right in.
0:45.7	Kristen, first, just tell us the thesis of your book.
0:49.6	What is the argument that you are making?
0:52.7	Essentially Jesus and John Wayne is a history
0:56.2	of white evangelical masculinity and militarism.
0:59.7	And so it traces this story through the 20th century,
1:03.5	really focusing on the last half century,
1:06.0	examining how evangelical ideals of masculinity
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