Early praise for Jesus and John Wayne: “The well-researched narrative is reasoned and dispassionate…. Join us on Friday, September 25 at 7 PM for a conversation with Kristen Kobes Du Mez about her latest book, Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation. Compare this again to John’s testimony concerning the Word: John 1:4 (ESV), “In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. John Wayne is a great example of that cultural politics that was taking shape against the backdrop of the Vietnam War. It is eminently readable, but there have been scholarly virtues traded for popular appeal. “Jesus and John Wayne demolishes the myth that Christian nationalists simply held their noses to form a pragmatic alliance with Donald Trump.
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