![]() Michael Rea, īut the indictment comes not so much at the level of analysis as at the level of mere description. “Jesus and John Wayne” is a tour-de-force indictment of the white evangelical cult of masculinity. ![]() What evangelicals wanted, and found, in Trump was not just a (potentially) powerful ally, but a man of a certain sort - a political strongman whose brash and swaggering demeanor made it clear not only that, but how he would wield power on their behalf. 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 argues compellingly for the conclusion that evangelical infatuation with Trump stems in large part from the “cult of masculinity” that American evangelicalism has both cultivated and succumbed to over the past century. ![]() ![]() As an evangelical myself, I can see how far the movement has sunk - even to betraying its own ideal of masculinity ![]()
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