Then, Peter and Susannah talk with Boze Herrington and Hannah Long about Kristin Kobes Du Mez’s book Jesus and John Wayne. They argue that Enlightenment liberalism has proven insufficient to provide either a metaphysical or a political framework for human life, and call for citizens and leaders to build institutions that will support a more robustly moral realist vision of politics and community.
She lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan.Peter and Susannah speak with Tara Isabella Burton and Tim Shriver about their manifesto calling for a new “spiritual realism.” Should questions of the Good and of human purpose be off the table in serious political discussion, either because they’re subjective and not real, or because they’re too divisive and dangerous? No, argue Burton and Shriver – and the current state of the polity in fact demands that we take these questions seriously. She has written for the Washington Post, Christianity Today, Christian Century, and Religion & Politics, among other publications. Kristin Kobes Du Mez is a professor of history at Calvin University and the author of A New Gospel for Women. This heavily-researched historical account of American Evangelicalism has ignited conversations within denominations and across political divides.ĭu Mez offers a sweeping, revisionist history of the last seventy-five years of white evangelicalism, revealing how evangelicals have worked to replace the Jesus of the Gospels with an idol of rugged masculinity and Christian nationalism―or in the words of one modern chaplain, with “a spiritual badass.”Ī much-needed reexamination of perhaps the most influential subculture in this country, Jesus and John Wayne shows that, far from adhering to biblical principles, modern white evangelicals have remade their faith, with enduring consequences for all Americans. Our guest, Calvin University professor of history Kristin Kobes Du Mez, discusses her timely and polarizing book, Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation.
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