Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove’s 2019 release, Revolution of Values, is just as pertinent and applicable as it was when he was writing it. He had me from page 1! Jonathan presents that over the last several decades, white conservative Christians have framed certain issues as the main ones that warrant our concern to the neglect of others. The neglected concerns have usually been the ones that largely affect people who have already been systemically marginalized. In this conversation, Jonathan and I talk about the history of how this has happened (and keeps happening) and what that looks like today.
Mentioned in this episode:
Revolution of Values: Reclaiming Public Faith for the Common Good by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez
“The Real Origins of the Religious Right” by Randall Balmer May 27, 2014 in Politico Magazine
White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America by Anthea Butler
The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism by Jemar Tisby
Shadow Network: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right by Anne Nelson
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I more than enjoy your podcast.I am white,66,raised by civil rights motivated Roman Catholics and came to faith at 20. 38 years an evangelical and Jesus turned my world view inside out.7 years later brings me to today.
todays conversation would be complete with a discussion on the bankrupt Democratic Party needing to redefine itself post civil rights. Of its decision to embrace a yankee catholic president and then women’s rights via abortion rights. Of the targeting of young Catholics on college campuses to become their young new voice for abirtion rights/women’s rights. There was a mirroring political movement to the one that was discussed today. These two movements pushed each other to the extremes ergo we got what we got. A politicized church both left and right. I fear for my people, the evangelicals. I fear for the Christian left as well. In becoming pawns they have both become part of what many would call the new Babylon. I am a nearly retired carpenter whose formal education ended at 11th grade. There has to be a Christian intellectual who has written on this as a historical event. Painful for both sides.