You may not agree with all of Kristen Kobes Du Mez’s assessment of this or that aspect of evangelical subculture or her conclusions about how this John Wayne testosterone populism contributed to the way evangelical sexual abuse scandals were handled or how some white evangelicals aligned themselves with Trump, even given his admission of sexual assault, or as he publicly encouraged people at his rallies to punch or rough up others.Īgree or not, this is a book for anyone who has lived through the past fifty or so years of evangelicalism. “ J&JW is a must read for any who care about the integrity of the gospel and the direction of evangelical faith in these days.” “Her documentation is impressive and tragically compelling,” my friend Byron Borger of Hearts and Minds Books says. Kristin Kobes Du Mez, professor of history at Calvin University, has done the hard, long work of research necessary to tell the story of how a dreadful stain of toxic masculinity wove its way into the thinking, teaching, and practice of 20 th century American White evangelicalism. Jesus and John Wayne is a book that needed to be written and needs to be widely read and discussed.
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