Christian Rightcast

Jul 03 2022 17 ep. 92 mins 740

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Kristin Rawls and Jeff Eaton unpack the history of Christian Fundamentalism in America. Learn how it shaped pop music and politics, how its culture came to be, and how its ideas contributed to America’s emerging authoritarian crisis.

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S2E01: The Post-Roe Episode

Jul 03 2022 99 mins

In a disheartening but long-anticipated 6-3 decision, the Supreme court struck down 1973’s Roe vs. Wade decision, eliminating constitutional protection for abortion. In this first episode after a 2021 hiatus, the hosts examine several threads in the anti-abortion movement’s generations-long trajectory:* The origins of the modern anti-abortion movement, and Francis Schaeffer’s

16: Apostolic Anti-Vaxxers and Romance Novel Genocide

Sep 15 2021 106 mins

In this episode, Jeff and Kristin tackle two separate stories: the rise of a Charismatic worship musician and his path into right-wing politics… and the controversy around an award-winning Christian romance novel whose hunky hero “participates in” genocide.News and Updates* Talking about Doug Wilson’s Neo-Confederate Christianity and the Ivermectin debacle on the I Don’t

15: Wilson Family Values

Jul 27 2021 112 mins

Doug Wilson is a key voice in modern Reconstructionism, an ideology that envisions America (and the world) remade into a confederacy of self-governing, patriarchal theocracies. Despite a history of eye-popping apologia for slavery, Wilson has become a key crossover figure for Reconstructionism. He leads a 1000-strong independent church in Moscow, Idaho; dialogues with more acceptab

14: Unpacking Purity Culture

Jun 14 2021 109 mins

It’s easy to mistake “Purity Culture” — Evangelical Fundamentalism’s distinctive take on sexuality and social mores — for prudishness. It’s much more than a simple “don’t have sex” campaign: the movement combines several related ideological threads in ways that can torment insiders and baffle outsiders. In this episode, Jeff and Kristin explore Purity Culture’

13: Josh Duggar, Bill Gothard, and the Engine of Abuse

First: a content warning for Christian Rightcast listeners. This episode directly addresses child sexual abuse, religious abuse, and specific techniques used by the Duggar family and Bill Gothard’s Institute in Basic Life Principles to protect child sexual predators.Last month, our series on Christian Reconstructionism was hitting its stride. Then news broke that Josh Duggar, mad

12: From Rushdoony to Ron Paul, with Racism

Apr 26 2021 108 mins

Last episode, Kristin walked us through the high points of Christian Reconstructionism — RJ Rushdoony’s extremist vision of a feudal, patriarchal America ruled by religious law. In this episode we explore the racist building blocks of his ideology, as well as the careful definitions many Reconstructionist-inspired movements use to claim their views are actually anti-racist.Warn

Episode 11: The Father of Christian Reconstructionism

Apr 12 2021 99 mins

If you’ve ever discussed “school choice,” wondered why some Christians , or puzzled over a “Taxation Is Theft” sign, you’ve encountered the legacy of Rousas John Rushdoony — one of the most influential but least-known fundamentalists of the 20th century. Rushdoony founded and shaped the Christian Reconstructionism movement for decades, articulating its principles and

Episode 10: The Late Great Planet Earth

Mar 16 2021 113 mins

Over the course of our series on End Times and Apocalypse narratives in the Christian Right, one name has come up over and over. Hal Lindsey’s breezy 1970 book The Late Great Planet Earth repackaged the broad strokes of Dispensationalist theology for the post-Woodstock world, framing Bible Prophecy as the more accurate version of popular “new age” pursuits like astrology and

End Times Classics: A Thief In The Night

Feb 15 2021 94 mins

After two episodes of history and context, Kristin and Jeff tackle the movie that put Rapture Horror on the pop culture map: 1972’s A Thief In The Night. It’s short but packed with B-movie flourishes, Evangelical cultural ephemera, and fundamentalist political paranoia. Produced on a relatively slim $68,000 budget, it exploded in popularity and earned millions — primarily fro

Episode 8: The End Times Industrial Complex

Feb 08 2021 96 mins

Apocalyptic narratives have shaped Christian tradition for millennia, but growing demand for “standardized” Christian reading materials at the turn of the 20th century turned End Times theology into big business. Jeff and Kristin follow the rise of the Christian publishing and media industry, zeroing in on key “crossover” hits that transformed Dispensationalist theology int