![]() In trying to explain the pervasive evangelical support for Donald Trump, Du Mez argues that this support “was no aberration, nor was it merely a pragmatic choice. It’s all true.” Jesus Plus Masculinity for America’s SakeĪnd especially true and irrefutable is Du Mez’s main contention. Thus, while I might quibble with some of the details in Jesus and John Wayne, I finished this book and felt like Han Solo in The Force Awakens: “Crazy thing is, it’s true-all of it. As the young people say, “I have the receipts.” I went to a white-flight Baptist academy for high school in northern Virginia, graduating right after George H. I’ve been to all three “levels” of Bill Gothard’s Institute for Basic Life Principles (basic, advanced, and pastors). ![]() I’m a two-time graduate of Bob Jones University, that bastion of fundamentalism, after spending a year at Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University. I worked at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in the late 1990s and early 2000s. ![]() After all, I serve as a pastor in a Presbyterian denomination that is committed to male-only ordained leadership. As I reflected on Calvin University professor Kristin Du Mez’s brilliantly provocative and painful, Jesus and John Wayne, I realized how many different intersections I had with her subject.
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