However, just before the election, things clicked for me. As a Christian myself, I wanted to be careful about shining a bright light on this dark underbelly of American Christianity if it was merely a fringe phenomenon. For another, I wasn’t sure at first how mainstream it all was. I wasn’t sure that I wanted to live with that for the years that I knew it would take to write a book. For one, the things that I was uncovering were very depressing. Yes! Since about 2010, I had been giving talks on evangelicalism and masculinity and had been approached by publishers, but there were two things at that point that made me a little hesitant to dive into a book project. In an interview with Religion & Politics, the author discusses how she came to its writing: This is a highly disturbing–and informative–book. ![]() ![]() ![]() WN: This is one of the few times I also posted a book review to this Blog. Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2020, 356 pages Book Review of: Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
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