Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
A bold and courageous book that challenges the white evangelical morph of Christianity, examining how they’ve done damage to the Christian faith and, by extension, to this entire nation. It’s a thoroughly researched and deeply engaging read that will raise countless discussion points.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The “paradigm-influencing” book (Christianity Today) that is fundamentally transforming our understanding of white evangelicalism in America.
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 nationalism—or in the words of one modern chaplain, with “a spiritual badass.”
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