![]() ![]() Jesus and John Wayne’s subtitle makes clear that Du Mez takes us into contentious territory: “How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation.” She makes a strong argument about the influences of toxic masculinity and unchecked patriotism on white evangelicalism. The symposium included a laudatory review by Sean Michael Lucas and critical ones by Kirsten Sanders and Jamie Carlson. So I was pleasantly surprised by a recent Mere Orthodoxy symposium on Calvin University’s Kristin Kobes Du Mez’s new book, Jesus and John Wayne. I like less the reviews and tweets about those books, which too often feel like fans cheering on opposing sides of a high-stakes sporting event, one rooting effusively and the other critiquing relentlessly. ![]() I like well-written and well-argued controversial books.
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