Jesus and John Wayne: An Evening with Kristin Kobes Du Mez 

Much respect for your work and thoughts, Dr. Du Mez. One huge issue missed- evangelicals and anti-science… but maybe that is a full book on its own!

Thank you Kristin for your scholarship! The historical context helps put so much of contemporary Christian politics into perspective.

Excellent 👍❤

Bravo❤

Thank you

Excellent! Thank you! ❤️

Colorado Springs more than most communities needs to hear this message since the takeover by Focus on the Family and Ted Haggard’s New Life church. 😢❤

Church & business are to intertwined. Negative energy is being passed as spirituality which is a false narrative.

Do you have a recording where the audio isn’t so distorted? Her message is fabulous but so painful to listen to.

I’d be interested in hearing her Harvard talk on abortion she mentions. I couldn’t find it.

Audio gets straightened out about 14:00

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Dang, the “introduce guy” was awful. I was literally yelling for him to shut up.

At the Oscars where Sasheen Littlefeather was refusing Marlon Brando’s Oscar The real human John Wayne had to be physically restrained by three large men from attacking her and dragging her off stage. Not a good vision of a Christlike man.

There simply is no excuse for atrocious audio like this.

Really sad to hear a scholar dismiss John Wayne so unprofessionally. I’m a liberal and certainly find some quotes attributed to Wayne distasteful, but Wayne in no way represents today’s MAGA knuckle draggers. To me the worst aspect of Wayne’s career was his support of the Vietnam War. But a scholar would also take into account Stalin’s purges and gulags or Mao’s millions of starvation deaths and the cultural revolution as reasons for fear of communism. I have watched all of his critically acclaimed movies and do not see mysogeny glorified but the opposite, he always defers to the woman who is usually a very strong, smart character. He respects native Americans in his movies as valiant adversaries. He is, like most of us who have the courage to admit it, flawed and noble, intelligent and ignorant.

I can't wait for her book on Hillary Clinton. Should be a laugher...

The unceded land warning at the beginning is unnecessary BS.

I would like to hear a discussion between Dumez and Xi Van Fleet. How does her analysis about Christian nationalism stand up against the dangers presented by the totalitarianism of Mao’s China? And how did unions contribute to the loss of employment in America (businesses looking for cheaper workers)? Also, the 1619 Project is NOT basic history. It seems her analysis is based on the plumb line of gender/race rather than on the plumb line of the Word. She doesn’t discuss the influence of Herbert Marcuse on the 60’s era. How he influenced the civil rights movement, anti-war movement, feminism, and the sexual revolution. The Religious Right formed as a backlash against this campus ideology which was permeating America. Trying to equate Christian nationalism (defined by Dumez as patriarchy) with sexual abuse in the church is an absolute stretch. Christian nationalism as a way to be grateful for freedom and to oppose the dangers that are presented to democracy by neo-Marxist ideology is never considered. Dumez seems to be lacking so much in understanding/perceiving the historical evangelical perspective.

This woman calls herself a christian but during the 60's to the 80's evangelicals were all about the rapture and the end of the world by the end of the 1980's;so Jesus did not come so the evangelicals had a problem so they shifted to prosperity preaching upto now 2024,but soon they will be going back to that preaching soon en masse.POLITICS is just a way to be in cultural debate and preserving the right to worship and witness and the bill of rights.