For one, I know Professor Du Mez professionally and I have a deep and abiding respect and admiration for her. I am deeply invested in more than one element of Kristin Kobes Du Mez’s Jesus and John Wayne. Consider this review a cri de coeur over a book written as a cri de coeur. I have reviewed dozens of books in my professional life, but this review will be different. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez (New York: Liveright, 2020), 386 pages, $18.95 (Hardback).Īs I begin, please indulge me as I make a few personal prefatory remarks. But hope is central to a Christian historical method. All we have before us as we reach the end of the book is a cliff edge, with no path forward to forgiveness and reconciliation. Du Mez’s work reads less as history and more as ideology, and an ideology with little in the way of faith, hope, or charity.
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