Jesus and John Wayne is a history of white evangelical Christianity in America in the 20th and 21st centuries. (She also blogs at Patheos, at Anxious Bench.) Kristin Kobes Du Mez, a professor of history and gender studies at Calvin University. Now I’ve read a book that makes this argument far better than I could: Jesus and John Wayne by Dr. Trump was the culmination of a mythology that white evangelicals spent years constructing. And yet, white evangelical Christians are devoted to him with cultlike intensity, more so than for many other politicians with actual Christian bona fides. He’s a beloved leader of the religious right who embodies the total opposite of the values they’ve always claimed to stand for: a narcissistic, prideful, greedy, sexually predatory tycoon who scarcely even pretends to be religious. I’ve written about the paradox of Donald Trump. A sweeping history of sexism, power and toxic masculinity in white evangelical Christianity.
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