Though theoretically evangelicalism is a set of specific theological propositions, in reality it is less a religious belief system and more accurately defined as a culture. Jesus and John Wayne is the history of evangelicalism, tracing the movement from its roots in the early twentieth century to its modern-day iteration. That was exactly how I felt reading Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation, by Kristin Kobes Du Mez. It was a key that made a lot of strange family behaviors make sense. No one ever had, so my grandma told the story of an aunt whose tragic story had become a family skeleton. Years ago, while visiting my grandmother, she pointed to a photo from my parents’ wedding and asked me if anyone had ever bothered to tell me who that random woman was.
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