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Review: Daylight Atheism, “Jesus and John Wayne,” by Adam Lee

Excerpts: Du Mez is a Christian herself, but this book is a secular work of history and analysis. It doesn’t say anything about what God wants, nor does it make any arguments about who is or isn’t a true Christian.…

Kristin Kobes Du MezMarch 24, 2021

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Review: Mere Orthodoxy, “Jesus Plus Masculinity for America’s Sake: Replying to ‘Jesus and John Wayne,'” by Sean Michael Lucas

Excerpts: Thus, while I might quibble with some of the details in Jesus and John Wayne, I finished this book and felt like Han Solo in The Force Awakens: “Crazy thing is, it’s true—all of it. It’s all true.” And especially true…

Kristin Kobes Du MezJanuary 25, 2021

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Jesus and John Wayne Selected as one of 2020’s “Most Intriguing Books on Religion,” Religion News Service

Excerpts: Our reading list this year, like the rest of our lives, was colored by the triple whammy of 2020: the pandemic, the racial justice protests and the presidential election. But given the unpredictability of these 12 jam-packed, crisis-filled months,…

Kristin Kobes Du MezDecember 23, 2020

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Jesus and John Wayne Selected 2020 Book of the Year by Englewood Review of Books

Excerpt: 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…

Kristin Kobes Du MezDecember 9, 2020

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Review: Covenant Companion, the Official Magazine of the Evangelical Covenant Church, “Reexamining Evangelical Culture,” by Kurt Peterson

Excerpts: Many who read this book, and this review, for that matter, will find Du Mez’s thesis harsh and culturally charged. It is. Whether or not readers agree with all of her arguments, Jesus and John Wayne offers discerning evangelicals the opportunity…

Kristin Kobes Du MezOctober 28, 2020

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Review: Christianity Today, “The Alpha-Male Style in American Evangelicalism,” by Daniel Harrell

Excerpts: In her recent book, Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation, Calvin University historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez situates Gothard and Piper in a long line of white, alpha-male leaders whose devotion to…

Kristin Kobes Du MezOctober 27, 2020

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Review: Englewood Review of Books, “Kristin Kobes Du Mez – Jesus and John Wayne – Feature Review,” by Joel Wentz

Excerpts: Stunning new narrative. . . Joel Wentz, The Englewood Review of Books, Feature Review . . . Kristin Kobes Du Mez’s stunning new narrative history of the last century of white American evangelicalism. Du Mez’s writing is lively and…

Kristin Kobes Du MezSeptember 24, 2020

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Book Review: Salon.com, “How the Evangelical Movement Became Donald Trump’s ‘Bitch’ – and Yes, I Know what that Word Signifies,” by Michael Rea

Excerpts: As an evangelical myself, I can see how far the movement has sunk — even to betraying its own ideal of masculinity In her recent book, "Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a…

Kristin Kobes Du MezSeptember 9, 2020

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Review: Church History, by Jon Butler

Church History , Volume 89 , Issue 3 , September 2020 , pp. 747 - 750DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009640720001936 Excerpts: Kristin Kobes Du Mez's startling Jesus and John Wayne assesses the religious culture that produced an outpouring of evangeltical support for the distinctly non-evangelical Republican Donald J. Trump in…

Kristin Kobes Du MezSeptember 1, 2020

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Review: The Christian Century, “Kristin Kobes DuMez’s History of the Manly Godly Man,” by Philip Christman

Excerpts: Jesus and John Wayne something more than a book of cultural history. Du Mez is facing a problem that besets many ex-evangelicals and former fundamentalists these days: How did the people who taught us to love Jesus end up…

Kristin Kobes Du MezAugust 4, 2020

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