S9 Ep939: Jesus and John Wayne: Dr. Kristin Kobes Du Mez
Theology in the Raw
Theology in the Raw
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🗓️ 20 January 2022
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Kristin Kobes Du Mez is a New York Times bestselling author and Professor of History and Gender Studies at Calvin University. She holds a PhD from the University of Notre Dame and her research focuses on the intersection of gender, religion, and politics. 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.
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. In this episode, I talk to Kristin about her book and the responses it has elicited.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, friends. Welcome back to another episode of Theology and the Raw. This is the long awaited |
| 0:04.3 | episode that I know a lot of you were wanting to hear. Kristen Kobis-Dume is a New York Times |
| 0:10.8 | best-selling author and a professor of history and gender studies at Calvin University. She has |
| 0:15.3 | a PhD from the University of Notre Dame and her research focuses on the intersection of gender |
| 0:22.0 | religion and politics. She's written for many different outlets near the New York Times, |
| 0:26.3 | Washington Post, NBC Religion, Fox News, just kidding. Religion. All right, so yeah, I'll stop. |
| 0:36.5 | I'll stop. She's the author of Jesus and John Wayne. Subtitle is how white evangelicals |
| 0:42.4 | corrupted a faith and fractured a nation. It's a book that I read shortly after it came out, |
| 0:48.4 | because everybody was talking about it. I want to know what I thought about it. I read it, |
| 0:53.1 | covered it cover, and what do I think about it? Well, we talk about what I think about it on |
| 0:57.6 | this podcast, so you can see. I mean, yeah, I really enjoyed reading the book. I have some questions |
| 1:02.9 | like I'm sure a lot of you have. We mean, Kristen, talk about those questions. I found her to be a |
| 1:08.5 | delight of a conversational partner, a true Christian academic. In other words, she wants to mix it |
| 1:18.8 | up. She's a surcher of truth. She welcomes helpful feedback. And I just found her to be super |
| 1:24.2 | humble and delightful and wise. And I learned a ton in this episode. If you would like to register |
| 1:30.8 | and attend the theology in the raw conference space is filling up. I know I keep saying that, |
| 1:36.1 | but yeah, it's filling up. So we got a few hundred spaces left. And it will probably sell out. |
| 1:42.2 | I would say by mid February is when we anticipate the conference to be sold out. So |
| 1:48.1 | exiles and Babylon, theologin era exiles and Babylon conference March 31st to April 2nd come, |
| 1:53.9 | listen to Jackie Hope Harry, John Tyson, David Platt, Durman Gray, Thibidi Anu Boile, |
| 1:59.9 | Kimi Katiti, Sandy Richter, worship by, you'll hear worship from who you'll participate in worship |
| 2:07.6 | by Edwin Wickham, Tanika Wyatt. And there's going to be street hymns, Ellie Bonilla, many, many other |
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