We should be the voices of conscience all the time, the ones who are not dependable party liners…Christians should be uniting across party differences…” “Christians ought to be trouble makers within their parties. But it’s not that God’s truth defines ours…” It is, ‘the more power the better.’ The more worldly power…political power…military power so that we can protect our truth, God’s truth, our truth, it’s the same. And yet, when we look at American Evangelicalism over the last half-century and more there is a very different understanding of power at t’s heart. White evangelicalism was already committed to those vices. DU MEZ JESUS AND JOHN WAYNE FULL“ But what was once done, can be undone.” A full review of Jesus and John Wayne is beyond the scope of this post, but Du Mez’s basic contention is that when white evangelicals turned out en masse to elect Donald Trump in 2016, they voted for him not in spite of his misogyny, racism, and toxic masculinity but because of it. This conversation explores how evangelicals have stepped away from the Jesus of the Gospels. This conversation explores how evangelicals have stepped away from the Jesus of the Gospels, from sacrificial love. Patriarchy, authoritarian rule, the nature of power and privilege in America and the Church, the deconstruction movement, Christians in politics in this podcast, Professor and Historian Kristin Du Mez, examines the impact of perhaps the most influential subculture in this country, white evangelicalism. Patriarchy, authoritarian rule, the nature of power and privilege in America and the Church, the deconstruction movement, Christians in politics in this podcast, Professor and Historian Kristin Du Mez, examines the impact of perhaps the most influential subculture in this country, white evangelicalism. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez 4.34 Rating details 15,087 ratings 2,891 reviews 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.
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