Added to this necessary and new unofficial genre of books is Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Professor of History at Calvin University (Grand Rapids, MI). The Gospel of John is the latest-written of the four biographies of Jesus that have been preserved in the New Testament. But hope is central to a Christian historical method. Several months ago I read Kristin Kobes Du Mez’s Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation. John quickly explains that he is not the messiah or one of the big-time Jewish prophets. At this point of the book, their support for Donald Trump shows that nothing has changed in the evangelical movement as they still valued leaders that asserted masculine, chauvinistic, and militaristic values (272). The media blitz for Jesus and John Wayne is unusually strong, and the book’s author Kristin Kobes Du Mez is being elevated as a “Christian historian and thought leader” faster than you can say “deconstruction is cool.”.
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