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“Rock That Doesn't Roll is a great topic, good production and told from a one sided point of view that American evangelicalism is irredeemable. According to the pod, Evangelicalism’s lack of inclusion for LGBTQ, equality amongst genders, race (white dominance), and lack of opportunity have left a sea of bodies in the wake of the movement’s course.
The pod falls into chronological snobbery of judging evangelical music from 20-40 years ago based on the sensibilities and preferences that are popular today. Neither Dr. Paynes book nor the pod seem to acknowledge this. The hosts do not talk about their own bias, experience, and assumptions which would be standard practice as an academic, reporter, and historian. Either they have someone mastered the ability to be objective or the hosts have hidden their own preferences behind the veil of objective reporting. I also looked at Dr. Pyane’s website to try and find her story but I did not see it there either.
I think it is disappointing that the scholarship in academia around evangelicalism funnels down to a few things; LGBTQ identity politics, race, gender, and capitalism and all the evils thereof. All the interviews end up pointing to these issues, there is no other side presented. There is no positive side presented. I find this to be great marketing but not intellectually honest reporting. There is going to be good with the bad but it seems to only present the bad.
I was hoping for something better that I could recommend to others but like The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill, which may be what they are hoping to emulate, I would just put this into the category of entertainment failure. It promotes deconstruction and allows those who have deconstructed to be the representative voices of evangelicalism. Letting fringe outliers or ex-members of the movement speak as if they are the current majority, as if they are representing the movement, is not very credible.
I was hoping for something that could report the good evangelicalism has done and the bad at the same time. I don't think this is it. Keep searching!”Read full review »
Popthetop via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
03/21/24
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“Incredible story of religiosity, culture, and America. So well told. Definitely recommend!”
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10/05/23
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“This podcast is SUCH a gem for anyone who grew up in evangelical culture and is now unpacking that experience. Music was a huge part of what drew my traumatized parent to church in the first place and then it became a huge part of how my sister and I were indoctrinated. The historical, political...”Read full review »
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United States of America ·
01/04/24
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“…and finding the unexamined gremlins and curiosities of the music of my youth. Entertaining and fascinating!”
Dangersandwich via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
10/04/23
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