Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation -- Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Paperback Aycee Roanoak Broderick Crawford (Seven Sinners) and

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Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation -- Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Paperback Aycee Roanoak Broderick Crawford (Seven Sinners) andJesus 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 nationalism or in the words of one modern chaplain, with "a spiritual badass." As acclaimed scholar Kristin Du Mez explains, the key to understanding this transformation is to recognize the centrality of popular culture