Kristin Kobes Du Mez, professor of history at Calvin University, about her book Jesus and John. Evangelical popular culture is teeming with muscular heroes - mythical warriors and rugged soldiers. Void where prohibited, taxed, or restricted by law. In this episode of The Two Cities podcast we talk with Dr. Jesus and John Wayne is a sweeping account of the last 75 years of white evangelicalism, showing how American evangelicals have worked for decades to replace the Jesus of the Gospels with an idol of rugged masculinity and Christian nationalism.
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Code may not be transferred or sold separately from this package. Code may be redeemed only by the recipient of this package. In the church of today, we need to be doing the same: only by recognizing, addressing, and openly dialoguing about the racial tension in America can we begin to work toward real solutions together. In the Gospels, we see how the crowds came to Jesus because he talked about real issues and was not afraid to engage in the important issues of his day.
Together, they:Examine the White-Black tension from both perspectives.Answer all the uncomfortable questions we're afraid to ask-regarding ourselves, our families, our work and relationships, and the church.Discuss seven key statements that they believe the church needs to acknowledge today-including that racism is a real problem, that it's more than just a spiritual issue, and that the Gospel is the solution.Provide practical steps anyone can take to become part of the solution. In this study, Wayne and John show how neither black fists nor white knuckles are the answer to the problem, but that what is needed are open hands, open hearts, and open minds. God and Race provides a non-threatening means for pastors, church leaders, and churchgoers to speak to each other about this difficult and pervasive problem. And why have white evangelicals become a presidential reprobates staunchest supporters These are among the questions acclaimed historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez.
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This study guide has everything you need for a full Bible study experience, including:The study guide itself-with discussion and reflection questions, video notes, and a leader's guide.An individual access code to stream all five video sessions online (you don't need to buy a DVD!). Many churches and leaders have sought their counsel, hoping to emulate their success, and yours can too. Pastors John Siebeling and Wayne Francis-whose thriving congregations are the embodiment of diversity-have pooled their insights and experiences to help others have conversations about racism. How you-and your church community-can play a part in ending racism. Jesus and John Wayne is 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 nationalismor in the words of one modern chaplain, with a spiritual badass.