with Ken Kemp – Posted: July 10, 2020
RECORDED July 3, 2020: REPRISE Part I December 22, 2020
THE BEST OF - Today we rebroadcast one of our most popular podcasts - Part II, from July 2020 - our conversation with author and professor, Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Ph.D. Her new book, Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation, addresses toxic masculinity, tracing the imposition of rigid hierarchy in the traditional family structure from the earliest days of white evangelicalism. Dr. Du Mez talks about The Nones, Fox News, and conservative talk radio; the emergence of Christian media - from radio to television to publishing to entertainment and merchandising. The LeHayes, Phyllis Schlafly. James Dobson, Mark Driscoll, Promise Keepers, John Piper, The Gospel Coalition and the Council for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, and much more. Ken shares thoughts on evangelicals and gender from The Beached White Male. SEE SHOW NOTES.
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Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Ph.D., has just released her new book: Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation. In two episodes, she discusses her meticulously researched book in which she follows the development of white evangelicalism and the emergence of the religious right from the mid-1900s to the present. She concludes that the white evangelical support for Donald Trump is no surprise - he is the fulfillment of the values embraced by the movement for decades. Here in Part I, Ken also shares a letter he wrote to Republican Senator John Thune, challenging him to break the silence of the Republican stronghold, and hold the President to account. SHOW NOTES.
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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.
How did a libertine who lacks even the most basic knowledge of the Christian faith win 81 percent of the white evangelical vote in 2016? And why have white evangelicals become a presidential reprobate’s staunchest supporters? These are among the questions acclaimed historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez asks in Jesus and John Wayne, which delves beyond facile headlines to explain how white evangelicals have brought us to our fractured political moment.
Challenging the commonly held assumption that the “moral majority” backed Donald Trump for purely pragmatic reasons, Du Mez reveals that Donald Trump in fact represents the fulfillment, rather than the betrayal, of white evangelicals’ most deeply held values.
Presented in association with The Center for Racial Reconciliation, Fellowship Monrovia
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