This week we (kinda) theme the episode around July the 4th! And we talk about the surprise hearing from the January 6th Committee and how that impacts our faith. All that and more on this week's episode!
Question for the week:
What does it mean to celebrate independence?
Special Guest:
Sarah Hedgecock, PhD Candidate in Religion at Columbia University
Guest Question:
As progressive Christians, we often describe ourselves, our perspectives, and our actions in contrast to evangelical Christianity. But evangelical Christianity also changes and adapts to the times and trends, albeit sometimes in different ways from progressive Christianity. How are we to understand evangelical Christian identity today? And are there any implications for progressive Christians? | Ahmed, Sara. “A Phenomenology of Whiteness.” Feminist Theory 8, no. 2 (August 1, 2007): 149–68.
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Bowler, Kate. The Preacher’s Wife: The Precarious Power of Evangelical Women Celebrities. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2019.
Dochuk, Darren. From Bible Belt to Sunbelt: Plain-Folk Religion, Grassroots Politics, and the Rise of Evangelical Conservatism. New York: W.W. Norton, 2011.
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Keller, Timothy. “Can Evangelicalism Survive Donald Trump and Roy Moore?” The New Yorker, December 19, 2017.
Kerby, Lauren R. Saving History: How White Evangelicals Tour the Nation’s Capital and Redeem a Christian America. Where Religion Lives. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2020.
Silliman, Daniel. “An Evangelical Is Anyone Who Likes Billy Graham: Defining Evangelicalism with Carl Henry and Networks of Trust.” Church History 90, no. 3 (September 2021): 621–43.
Vaca, Daniel. Evangelicals Incorporated: Books and the Business of Religion in America. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2019.
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