Long (45-70 mins)
History
Unknown
‘Jesus and John Wayne’ author Kristin Du Mez on how white evangelicals came to embrace Donald Trump
Theologian
Kristin Kobes Du Mez
Duration
50.30
Uploaded to YouTube
23 February 2026
Added to Database
1 March 2026
YouTube description
How did Evangelical Christians come to not only vote for Donald Trump, but embrace him as a heroic figure? Historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez says it was a long time in coming, and that Trump is not a betrayal of evangelical values, but a fulfilment of them. We’ll talk with Du Mez ahead of delivering the annual Thulin Lecture this week in Urbana.