10/25/2022 0 Comments Book review jesus and john wayne![]() ![]() Personally, and for all of us who lived through this history, the book surfaces deep continuities between different people, events. After reading Du Mez’s account of the previous century, the connections become abundantly clear. Politically, Kristin Kobes Du Mez’s new book, Jesus and John Wayne, offers an extremely importantand underratedinsight into why white evangelicals have fallen so deeply in love with Donald Trump. In an absolutely devastating closing chapter (titled “Evangelical Mulligans”) Du Mez traces many accounts of the all-too-frequent public failings of prominent evangelical leaders, and the knee-jerk efforts of those in similar positions of power to defend them while invalidating the abused. ![]() ![]() She was very patriotic, pro-life, pro-'traditional values'. #Book review jesus and john wayne professionalI have reviewed dozens of books in my professional life, but this review will be different. But I’ll see Lucas’s endorsement and raise him one. He’s right, and critiques like mine do little to derail the core thesis of the book. As I begin, please indulge me as I make a few personal prefatory remarks. Lucas concludes his review by asserting that Jesus and John Wayne should be required reading for those who live and move and have our being within American evangelical denominations and churches. M was a longtime, old-school Reagan supporter while being very supportive of the Civil Rights movement. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez (New York: Liveright, 2020), 386 pages, 18.95 (Hardback). *** Our 2020 Book of the Year!!! Jesus and John Wayne:īuy Now: Introduction My Christian journey began in 1976 when I was 9: my first stepmother-M-had aligned with the Church of God (Cleveland, TN). ![]()
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