What’s Going

On Here?

An Exploration of Contemporary American Evangelicalism

“Where the Ism is to the Evangel what Baal was to Israel.”

Daniel Barth Peters

Ph.D. [preacher’s kid, holy and damned]

drgoodbooks

and

The drgoodbooks Show

Premiering in January, 2025

a limited run YouTube series with

Targets Bullseye Aims Potshots through Insights Hotshots through Outsights Commentary Critique Criticism Coffee

American Studies History, Anthropology, and Religion featuring exegesis and eisegesis from cultural texts of American Evangelicalism.

Histories and Cultures Pieties, Societies, and Tribes Isms, Prisms, and Schisms Centers, Margins, and Margarines Borders, Hoarders, and Discorders

Fundamentalism and the Question of What Doesn’t Matter Conservatism and the Question of Waste Liberalism and the Question of the Colonialism Progressivism and the Question of Regression

Social Consciousness, Social Conscience, and the Jesus Problem The Sleeping, the Dream, the Nightmare, and the Woke Politics, Moralitics, and pick those Ticks The Smart, the Wise, the Ignorant, and you’ve got to be KIDDING

Truth Matters So do Lies The Ties that Bind and the Lies that Grind Call no one a Fool but call them out when they act like one Call no one a Liar but burn those lies with the fires of Hell

God loving Consumer Capitalism God hating Communist Socialism The sacred Kingdom and the secular Christian Nation The Megachurch and the MAGA Church

The Degrees Earned, Learned, Bought and Sold The Scandals and the Scoundrels The Powers, the Towers, and the Sours

The Pastors, the Preachers, and the Screechers Preachers Kids, Missionary Kids, and Regular kids The Suffering, The Martyr, The Hero, The Saint, and Hagiography Grace to you, disgrace to me, and the vet with no leg to run the Race

The Wannabes, the Gonnabes, and the Should’ve Beens The Stains, the Pains and the Gains Social Media and the Fellowship of Strangers Construction, Deconstruction, and Reconstruction The Chosen by God, the Chosen on tv, and the choosing of One

and

All Things Deemed Necessary to The Story of The Evangel (Oh yeah, almost forgot Fun, Food, and Fellowship)

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