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He has a number of brand collaborations, including with Bass Pro Shops/Cabela’s, Luke Bryan, Justin Moore and he's now the country music ambassador for Southwest Airlines.Įvery Sunday, Hoge performs a gospel song on his Facebook page for his series "Sunday Sessions." Many of those sessions can be watched HERE. 1 on Billboard Country Album Sales Chart in 2017. “I had mom and dad, John Wayne and Jesus/everything that a little boy needed / living my life walking that line between us / I learned to fight and I learn to pray / I learned right from wrong along the way / and til this day I practice what they're preaching / I had mom and dad, John Wayne and I had Jesus,” the song’s chorus states. “John Wayne and Jesus” is being released as a featured track and is not on an album at this time. We wanted to create one of those songs that really encompassed the way of life we had as kids and the values that mom, dad, John Wayne, and Jesus gave to us,” Hoge told The Christian Post of his new song.
When I got together with my buddies Andy Wills and Danny Simpson I knew they would be the perfect guys to bring it to life. "'John Wayne and Jesus' was a thought I had been sitting on for a while. lot where Academy Award-winning legend John Wayne shot many of his movies. Hoge filmed the video for his new single during a recent trip to Los Angeles where he performed on Hallmark's daytime talk show “Home & Family.” The single was also shot at the same Warner Bros. | Adkins Publicityīillboard-topping country music singer Lucas Hoge says his new single “John Wayne and Jesus” is a tribute to his childhood and the values that were instilled in him. A much-needed reexamination of perhaps the most influential subculture in this country, Jesus and John Wayne shows that, far from adhering to biblical principles, modern white evangelicals have remade their faith, with enduring consequences for all Americans.Country singer Lucas Hoge on the set of his video "John Warner and Jesus" on the Warner brothers studio lot in Los Angeles, California. It really doesn’t get much better than this, folks. And evangelical culture is teeming with muscular heroes-mythical warriors and rugged soldiers, men like Oliver North, Ronald Reagan, Mel Gibson, and the Duck Dynasty clan, who assert white masculine power in defense of “Christian America.” Chief among these evangelical legends is John Wayne, an icon of a lost time when men were uncowed by political correctness, unafraid to tell it like it was, and did what needed to be done.Ĭhallenging the commonly held assumption that the “moral majority” backed Donald Trump in 20 for purely pragmatic reasons, Du Mez reveals that Trump in fact represented the fulfillment, rather than the betrayal, of white evangelicals’ most deeply held values: patriarchy, authoritarian rule, aggressive foreign policy, fear of Islam, ambivalence toward #MeToo, and opposition to Black Lives Matter and the LGBTQ community. By the time you’re done reading Jesus and John Wayne, you’ll be wondering how Moses used the law of male circumcision for political leverage over women, and how Jesus’ example of God taking care of little sparrows was to further the cause of male dominion to avoid household chores. Evangelical books, films, music, clothing, and merchandise shape the beliefs of millions. Many of today’s evangelicals might not be theologically astute, but they know their VeggieTales, they’ve read John Eldredge’s Wild at Heart, and they learned about purity before they learned about sex-and they have a silver ring to prove it. Jesus and John Wayne is a sweeping, revisionist history of the last seventy-five years of white evangelicalism, revealing how evangelicals have worked to replace the Jesus of the Gospels with an idol of rugged masculinity and Christian nationalism-or in the words of one modern chaplain, with “a spiritual badass.”Īs acclaimed scholar Kristin Du Mez explains, the key to understanding this transformation is to recognize the centrality of popular culture in contemporary American evangelicalism. To be an evangelical, according to the National Association of Evangelicals, is to uphold the Bible as one’s ultimate authority, to confess Usually I will stay away from books on religion. The “paradigm-influencing” book ( Christianity Today) that is fundamentally transforming our understanding of white evangelicalism in America. For a title like Jesus and John Wayne, I broke my rule.