JD Hall, Joel Webbon Announce Book Together

In a Friday news drop, Joel Webbon not only released the first installment of his interview with Nick Fuentes, he and JD Hall also announced their book as well. The Hyphenated Heresy: Judeo-Christianity challenges the myth of the hyphen in Judeo-Christian, tracing how it reshaped Christian identity, redefined the Church’s witness, and bound modern faith to political Zionism.

JD Hall has alluded to me the coming book he was co-authored, and I suspected Webbon was the coauthor. JD Hall further announced that he will be the chief writer for NXR’s new substack.

And then there is Webbon, who lives as though at the end of his historic creeds and confessions ends with “Ride or Die” as his benediction. So, he’s a suitable companion for this foxhole.

Ian Paisley once preached, “The pulpit is no place for a soft-boy sissy or a cream-puff pie preacher,” saying that it’s not for a “sob-voiced sissy to be another pulpit ornament two times on Sunday.” He had a way with words, our brother. Bless him. And Paisely had it right.

I think Webbon passes Paisley’s test just fine. And think most of his critics do not.

So, there is nothing mysterious about the present controversy, and there is no reason to speak about it indirectly. People are upset because conversations are happening that they do not control, partnerships are forming without their approval, and the informal lines that once governed evangelical influence are being crossed in public. That is the entire story, stripped of drama and euphemism.

We are living in an era where loyalty and courage are prized virtues instead of winsomeness or niceness.