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5 May, 6 tweets, 2 min read
You guys. My Dept chair is giving our History Dept end of the year highlights in the form of Daily Wire headlines, inspired by their article on J&JW (a creative take on my History Dept colloquium earlier this year). I’m dying. Read on and see why I love my @CalvinHistory home. Image
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6 May
That Christian Disney dad is just the tip of the iceberg. Really smart @RDispatches piece by @joshparksviolin: "He wants to believe in magic, but wokeness is breaking the spell."
Which is a very evangelical thing, turns out... 1/8
religiondispatches.org/the-lament-of-…
"Disney cultivates loyal theme park visitors...by presenting WDW as a refuge from the real world, a literal fantasyland in which all your dreams come true. Within this fantasy, you...are the star of the show, evil is clearly defined & easily defeated, and the past is celebrated..
...as a source of comfort and inspiration. And while this ideology makes for happy guests and healthy profits, it also has deep affinities with the worldview that white evangelical Christians in America have been constructing for decades." 3/8
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4 May
So Owen Strachan is leaving the SBC to train men "in strong biblical manhood," drawing inspiration from the Ivy League and Navy SEALS, less "the pastor as the felt-needs-meeter who is so nice he never makes a wave and more John Knox defying evil magistrates...
...(& presumably also the monstrous regiment of women) in order to preach the unadulterated gospel." Sure it's not accredited but it will produce men who launch, & seek "a learned ministry without apology." There'll be no "effete refinement."
(Except presumably for the "elegant reading room...equipped for a small coffee shop.")
Here men will "bleed the Bible."
You'll get "less mainstream pastel-colored Christianity, and more of the world-defiying, safety-eschewing, comfort-relinquishing spirit..."
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1 May
The last chapter of JESUS AND JOHN WAYNE is Evangelical Mulligans: A History. I hated researching it, hated writing it. It places evangelical support for an abuser-in-chief in the context of ev's support for their own abusers of power: Driscoll, Mahaney, MacDonald, MacArthur...
And it places their support for Trump, Roy Moore & Brett Kavanaugh alongside their support for abusers in their midst: Pete Newman of Kanakuk Kamps and Joe White's coverup; C.J. Mahaney for cultivating an "environment conducive to and protective of physical and sexual abuse..."
The list continues: Bill Gothard, Doug Phillips, Doug Wilson's long history of victim blaming. Josh Duggar, whose family minimized his actions. As his mom told Fox News, everyone makes mistakes--"that's why Jesus came." She blamed those with an agenda for slandering the family.
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1 May
"I am a woman inclined to leadership (I didn’t know how to change that), fascinated by religion & faith, but I didn’t know how to fit inside it anymore. So, I walked away from the church.
As a reporter, a religion writer, I’m still deeply fascinated by women who stayed." 1/4
Here @sarahstankorb provides insightful context to @bethallisonbarr's new book & identifies her "as part of a movement of women, now, demanding to be heard." Women like @angela_denker @juleswoodson11 @ashleymeaster @AntheaButler... 2/4
Jesus and John Wayne gets a shoutout too, as "a sort of oracle revealing toxic masculinity within the evangelical movement. A year out from publication, the book spurs daily posts from believers starting to peel their faith away from hyperbolic manhood..." 3/4
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11 Apr
When I wrote JESUS AND JOHN WAYNE, I had a list of people I most wanted to read the book. @DavidAFrench was on that list. And so I'm especially grateful for this generous and serious engagement. Hard to choose, but I'll share a few highlights & then respond below. 1/
The assertion that culture defines evangelicals as much as theology he finds "spot-on": "Evangelicals are kidding themselves if they think their culture is always the result of their theology rather than their theology often following their culture." 2/
French also sees that "the John Wayne archetype"-- "an unhealthy attachment to a particularly aggressive vision of masculinity...modeled less on Christ than on secular warrior-figures..." where men defend faith & nation--correctly describes a strong strand of ev culture. 3/
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31 Mar
As Women's History Month draws to a close, I would be remiss if I didn't highlight my favorite forgotten woman in American history, Kate Bushnell--once a world-renowned anti-trafficking activist, innovative feminist theologian, & all around woman you didn't want to mess with. 🧵
After repeatedly encountering upstanding Christian men who perpetrated and condoned all sorts of cruelties against women--both in the United States and across the British empire--Bushnell concluded that "the crime" must be "the fruit of the theology."
But she upheld the authority of the Scriptures: The Bible was all that it claimed for itself: "inspired...infallible...and inviolable." During the fundamentalist/modernist split, she sided w/ fundamentalists. The problem was the Bible had been translated & interpreted by men.
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