“Those lamenting evangelicals’ apparent betrayal of ‘family values’ fail to recognize that evangelical family values have always entailed assumptions about sex and power.” (277) For those interested in exposing and dismantling those assumptions, or even those who simply want to understand how they gained prominence in the white evangelical landscape, Jesus and John Wayne is an absolute must-read, a stunning work, and one that deserves serious attention and further conversation. After reading Du Mez’s account of the previous century, the connections become abundantly clear. Reviewing Jesus and John Wayne for Mere Orthodoxy, this is part of what Sean Michael Lucas hopes readers take away from Du Mezs work. 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.

the social movements of the 1960s and a response to these changes was mobilized during the 1970s onward through evangelical influence on the marketplace and mainstream politics (11-12). Published by Digital CommonsGeorgia Southern, 2022. If social media is any indication, everyone loves Kristin Kobes Du Mez’s book Jesus and John Wayne. It really doesn’t get much better than this, folks.

*** Our 2020 Book of the Year!!! Jesus and John Wayne:īuy Now: Jackson: Review of Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted. By the time you’re done reading Jesus and John Wayne, you’ll be wondering how Moses used the law of male circumcision for political leverage over women, and how Jesus’ example of God taking care of little sparrows was to further the cause of male dominion to avoid household chores.

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