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Here is the first of a 4-part series of podcasts on Holy Post about the book. Billboard-topping country music singer Lucas Hoge says his new single 'John Wayne and Jesus' is a tribute to his childhood and the values that were instilled in him.Here is the Theology in the Raw podcast episode with Du Mez.Here is the Kingdom Roots podcast episode with Du Mez.Here is the Bible for Normal People episode with Du Mez.This book is willing to call out the varied roles that Christianity Today has played in the rise of the white evangelical power grab that allowed Donald Trump to waltz into the White House. If you enjoyed the recent podcast by Christianity Today: The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill you will find this book to be a more thorough account of the larger cultural phenomenon that Mark Driscoll took advantage of to grow an evangelical empire. It may sound odd at first, but Du Mez does a masterful job of showing what has been hiding in plain sight for a long time.

The connections between John Wayne and white evangelicals through history are many. The history is organized around the Christian obsession with the “man’s man” John Wayne and his political and religious involvement. There are 16 chapters tracing the history of white evangelicalism starting in the beginning of the 20th century and ending with the election of Donald Trump in 2016. Jesus 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 nationalismor in the words of one modern chaplain, with a spiritual badass. This also deconstructs the ideology that made possible the evangelical support for Donald Trump. This book confronts many modern myths that alive and well in the evangelical world. This is not a book for the faint of heart evangelical.

The holy post jesus and john wayne full#

The full title hints at what I learned from this – Jesus and John Wayne:How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation. I think every white, evangelical church goer should read this book! It subverted many assumptions I had about why evangelicalism thought and did certain things politically. This book is a historical account of recent white evangelical history in the United States.