I think even some of the figures, even though the world of American evangelicalism was not necessarily my world growing up, there were still nonetheless intersections with some of the major characters.ДЄnd I think seeing, then, in your book the breadth and the depth of context and background, all of a sudden it's like, oh my goodness. So I think for some people, especially if they find that they lived parts of the story it can be hard to kind of confront that reality. A lot of people talk about throwing it across the room, taking it in chapters at a time, processing it with other friends who are reading it. And I'll also say that it's a really hard book to read in the sense of distressing. I must say I love the book and I think it's a terribly helpful book. Well thanks so much for your new book, Jesus and John Wayne. Kristin Du Mez: Yeah, there aren't a lot of distractions. Lee Camp: It makes it at least good for studying, studying and writing. Yeah you get those long, long stretches of little sun coming off of Lake Michigan, I suppose. Lee Camp: I guess you were at least prepared for the cold winters.

And so I just ended up transplanted here in West Michigan. Lee Camp: Are you from Michigan originally? Kristin Du Mez: I think we're at 16 years now. And you've been teaching at Calvin College how long? Your you're there in Grand Rapids, Michigan, right? Today we're discussing her most recent book, Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation. She holds a PhD from the University of Notre Dame, and her research focuses on the intersection of gender, religion, and politics. Lee Camp: Kristin Du Mez is Professor of history and gender studies at Calvin University. The interview with Professor Du Mez is coming right up.

Lee Camp: Agree or disagree, this episode will likely leave all of us with some sort of strong emotional response. Kristin Du Mez: Is not a betrayal, it's a fulfillment. Lee Camp: In other words, evangelical support of Donald Trump, Kristin Du Mez: At the center of evangelical politics, then again, we see a lot of continuity here. Instead, she says: if we understand the ways in which white, patriarchal masculinity is, Lee Camp: Her thesis? That evangelical Christian values do -not-, in fact, stand in tension with the person and presidency of Donald Trump. Kristin Du Mez: What I pieced together is we're really talking about a rugged and aggressive assertion of white patriarchal authority. Lee Camp: That is, if we look closely at what the wide-spread 'evangelical values' actually turn out to be, then: Kristin Du Mez: If we take a closer look at what those values actually are, This is the very serious question that drives her recent book Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation. Lee Camp: That's Kristin Du Mez, Professor of history and gender studies at Calvin University. Kristin Du Mez: How could family values of evangelicals support a man like Trump? both in Christian Ethics (University of Notre Dame, 1999). (Abilene Christian University, 1993) M.A. Lee has an Undergrad Degree in computer science (Lipscomb University, 1989) M.A. Besides teaching full-time, he hosts NashvilleвЂ™s Tokens Show, and has authored three books. He likes to think of himself as a radical conservative, or an orthodox liberal loves teaching college and seminary students at Lipscomb University delights in flying sailplanes finds dark chocolate covered almonds with turbinado sea salt to be one of the finest confections of the human species and gives great thanks for his lovely wife Laura, his three sons, and an abundance of family and friends, here in Music City and beyond. Lee is an Alabamian by birth, a Tennessean by choice, and has sojourned joyfully in Indiana, Texas, and Nairobi. You might think of us as something like musicians without borders or as poets, philosophers, theologians and humorists transgressing borders. We have fun, and we make fun: of religion, politics, and marketing. We exhibit tokens of such a world in music-making, song-singing, and conversations about things that matter. Our philosophical and theological variety shows and events hosted throughout the Nashville area imagine a world governed by hospitality, graciousness and joy life marked by beauty, wonder and truthfulness and social conditions ordered by justice, mercy and peace-making.

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