036 Evangelical Culture, fundamentalism, Billy Graham, and why thepro-life movement was about racism

This week we are joined by Verdell, a United Church of Christ minister and doctoral candidate in communications at Howard University.  He joined us for a podcast about creating more worship spaces for LGBTQ African Americans on Episode 015.  We discuss an area he has studied and experienced, evangelical culture.  We discuss what the historical roots of evangelicalism are, define evangelical characteristics and how it isn't its country cousin, fundamentalism.  Joshua argues with Verdell contending that Billy Graham is totally a fundamentalist (he isn't, and now Joshua knows why) and we talk about the pro-life phenomenon of the 60s.  We discuss how the pro-life movement was actually just a smoke-screen for white-supremacist Christians...and continues to be a smoke screen.For more from Verdell, visit his blog at reboot4life.wordpress.com and follow him on Twitter @mr_wrightaway