Show Notes
In today's special Episode, guest hosts Tamice Spencer-Helms (Black Modern Mystic), Ciarra Jones, and Brian Recker take over the Tim and April Show to dig into Christian nationalism and masculinity — starting with Doug Wilson's case for repealing women's suffrage and "household voting," then tracing how a hyper-masculinized, muscle-bound Jesus shows up from Mark Driscoll's early-2000s "UFC prize fighter Jesus" through pastor Martin Iscara's viral "Jesus had a six-pack" clip, and landing on Pete Hegseth's Pentagon testosterone-testing policy.
Chapters:
01:20 Weekend catch-up, Andrew Tate's arrest, and the capri-pants discourse
06:18 Setting up the topic: Pete Hegseth as the face of Christian-nationalist masculinity
10:58 Doug Wilson clip: repealing the 19th Amendment and "household voting"
12:56 Reaction: complementarianism, "equal in value, different in roles," and who actually holds the power
20:07 Natural law theology, white supremacy needing a "pole," and who's on the underside of the theology
34:15 Mark Driscoll's "UFC prize fighter Jesus" and the Book of Revelation sword imagery
39:49 Hegseth's testosterone-testing policy and the Jesse Watters reaction clip
47:37 Closing: what queerness has taught the hosts about healthy masculinity
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