ApocryFUN: Captivating + Katelyn Beaty
Of course there’s one for women, too.
In this episode, Katelyn joins Tyler to discuss Captivating, John and Stasi Eldredge’s attempt to do Wild at Heart for girls. We dig into the flip side of the evangelical gender binary of the early ’00s to explore what the Christian Macho Man playbook meant for all the damsels they were supposed to be rescuing. Also: quite a bit more Lord of the Rings content than we expected!
ApocryFUN returns, now as a monthly series as part of the expanding Saved By the City Auditory Multiverse! 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.
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