Jesus & John Wayne with Kristen Du Mez

God is Grey

Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 683 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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NYT best selling author Kristen Du Mez talks about her groundbreaking book Jesus and John Wayne and the hyper "masculinity" promoted among Christians. How on earth did our nation move from Jesus to Trump? #progressive #GodisGrey Catch new episodes every Wednesday! Purchase my memoir: ON HER KNEES https://www.godisgrey.com Audible version: ON HER KNEES https://www.audible.com/pd/On-Her-Kne... SUBSCRIBE to God is Grey: https://bit.ly/2TJAMH4 PODCAST https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Purchase THINX to UP your period game, discount code: shethinx.com/Godisgrey ManiMe Nails: https://manime.co Input offer code GODISGREY for 20% first time orders! God is Grey MERCH https://teespring.com/stores/godisgrey SUPPORT: Patreon: https://bit.ly/2ruRKwa One time donation: https://bit.ly/2UjRSfe Follow God is Grey: INSTAGRAM: https://bit.ly/2PRSdHu TWITTER: https://bit.ly/2EysSw5 Podcast: God is Grey https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Set by: @aboldnewhue Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Oh, they told us we wouldn't get here.
0:07.4	Oh, hello, my beautiful on that one, that one.
0:19.3	Oh, hello, my beautiful angel.
0:22.1	This is Brenda Davies and welcome to another episode of God is Grey.
0:26.3	Today we're talking to Kristen Kobus Dumay.
0:29.6	She is an American historian and a professor of history and gender studies at Calvin
0:34.9	University in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
0:37.8	Kristen is also the New York Times bestseller of Jesus and John Wayne,
0:43.1	how white evangelicals corrupted of faith and fractured a nation.
0:48.4	Kristen's scholarly account of American Christianity presents a 75-year history of evangelicalism that identifies the forces
0:57.1	that have turned Donald Trump into a hero of the religious right. I know so many of us have
1:03.3	been perplexed and confused and horrified to see Trump be elevated as some sort of demigod or
1:10.2	someone that is even remotely affiliated with
1:13.5	Christ despite all of the evidence we have to show otherwise.
1:18.1	Kristen also asks us to reckon with masculinity, this version of which is harming men, women,
1:25.1	families, and the nation at large.
1:34.1	So for anyone who has been curious about how on earth white evangelicalism got so majorly corrupted, or frankly, how it was corrupted from the start, you're going to enjoy this episode,
1:39.5	and I highly recommend you go out and buy yourself a copy of Jesus and John Wayne.
1:45.9	So on to the episode.
1:53.3	Hi, Kristen. It is so wonderful to have you on God is Gray. Today, we are talking about your incredible book called Jesus and John Wayne. I have watched wonderful lectures on YouTube.
1:59.3	I've read the book. And what your work does is this
2:03.8	impeccable unraveling and really showing how people began to believe this fallacy that
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