ApocryFUN: A Midwinter Series with Tyler Huckabee + Ep. 2: Wild at Heart
Tyler and Roxy become the men God created them to be with Wild at Heart, the 2001 book with a direct through line to modern evangelical ideas around masculinity.
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Paintball never looked so holy.
On each episode of this show, we talk about a popular, influential — or at least lucrative — Christian book from the 90s or 2000s (you know, our era). We discuss how the book shaped American Christianity, our own personal faith journeys, and how it has aged in our current dystopian Christian Nationalist hellscape.
In this episode, Tyler and Roxy become the men God created them to be with Wild at Heart, John Eldredge’s 2001 bestseller that challenged dudes to rock for Jesus and destroy anyone who got in their way. Squint just a little and you can see the direct through line from this book to modern evangelical ideas around gender, masculinity and Jordan Peterson.
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