Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez MPS ● The Dark Talent

● The Dark Talent

And life at the Sea Section

dogged refusal to quit—he steadfastly confronts one seemingly insurmountable obstacle after the next

By turns funny and sobering

the woman refuses to be separated from the dog except for brief periods of time

Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez MPS ● The Dark TalentJesus and John Wayne is a sweeping, revisionist history of the last seventy five years of white evangelicalism, revealing how evangelicals have worked to replace the Jesus of the Gospels with an idol of rugged masculinity and Christian nationalism or in the words of one modern chaplain, with "a spiritual badass." As acclaimed scholar Kristin Du Mez explains, the key to understanding this transformation is to recognize the centrality of popular culture