Her most recent book is the New York Times bestselling Jesus and John Wayne : How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation, which is now available in paperback. She's written for the New York Times, Washington Post, NBC News, Religion News Service, Christianity Today, and been interviewed by NPR, CBS, the BBC, and all these other wonderful places. She holds a PhD from the University of Notre Dame and her research focuses on the intersection of gender, religion, and politics. Jonathan Walton: Our guest today is Kristin Kobes Du Mez, a professor of history and gender studies at Calvin university. I'm Suzie Lahoud here with Jonathan Walton and Sy Hoekstra. Suzie Lahoud: Welcome to Shake the Dust - leaving colonized faith for the Kingdom of God, a podcast of KTF Press. And then leaders actively stoked fear in the hearts of their followers in order to justify and consolidate their own power. Historically, I came to see that, in many ways, we had to flip the script- that it wasn't fear that engendered militancy, but in many cases, the militancy was there first. Kristin Kobes Du Mez: I initially kind of understood the narrative to be something like, evangelicals were radicalized politically, or they voted for Donald Trump because they were just so afraid.
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