![]() Kristin Kobes Du Mez reaches the same conclusion with provocative, cringeworthy detail in her book Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation. Jesus and John Wayne by Kristin Kobes Du Mez In a recent post, Diana Butler Bass resurrected a question posed by Harry Emerson Fosdick in 1922: Shall the fundamentalists win? Her conclusion: They already have. She is the long-time editor of the weekly Crossings text studies and serves on the Crossings Board of Directors.Ī Review: Kristin Kobes Du Mez’s Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation Mark’s Lutheran Church, Spokane, Washington. She urges us to be theologians of the cross, trusting in Christ’s full benefits for us. Lori’s astute review prods us to move beyond shaking our finger at the toxic mix of bad theology and patriarchy, racism, and sexism that Du Mez exposes. In this instance Lori reviews an important book that recently became available in paperback: Jesus and John Wayne, by Calvin University scholar Kristin Kobes Du Mez. This week the clear prose and sharp insights of Lori Cornell once again give Thursday Theology readers much to ponder. Loops and Swift Horses are Surer than Lead, 1916 by Charles M Russell.
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