Helen Lewis
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1,139 appearances
8 recordings
6 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 24 Jun
Helen Lewis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They would volunteer in soup kitchens, for example.
Their idea of Christianity was one that was based around service to other people.
And I don't really see a great deal of link between that and the version of, even in the persona of Jesus, right?
So the persona of Jesus in the Gospels, he says, blessed are the meek.
He is in some ways an incredibly feminine figure, a passive one.
He lets things happen to him.
He doesn't storm into Pontius Pilate's front room with an AK-47 and gun everyone down.
He lets himself be killed to die for our sins.
And therefore, there's this interesting sense that actually Jesus is kind of slightly an embarrassment to some of these people.
They've had to, in this American Christianity, particularly evangelical Christianity, had to wreck on him as a much more masculine figure.
than the biblical record suggests.
I raised this with someone, one of the pastors I interviewed in Doug Wilson's church, and I said this, I said, it's really hard to match up your idea of this masculine patriarchal Christianity with the Bible.
And he said, oh yeah, but remember when Jesus overturned the tables in the temple, the moneylenders?
So, you know, there again has been a kind of attempt to go back through the Christian tradition and find the bits you like.
Often these guys are more keen on St.
Paul than they are on Jesus because St.
Paul was a preacher.
He was a controversialist.
You know, he was somebody who had a, you know, he had literally had a divine revelation, you know, and then he was also somebody who was patriarchal.
There are lines from there saying, you know, godly women should be quiet.
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