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Jesus & John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation: Jesus, Donald Trump and John Wayne Download Previous Post Interview: The Holy Post Podcast, '419: Rethinking Roe, Crotch Christianity, & Militant Masculinity. Part 4 - 9/11 and the Neo-Calvinists (48:38) Part 3 - Purity Culture and Fragile Masculinity (32:47) Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Jesus and John Wayne : How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by. Part 2 - Servant Leaders and Racial Reconciliation (15:36) Part 1 - Promise Keepers and Therapeutic Christianity Plus, why an emphasis on racial reconciliation ultimately doomed Promise Keepers, and how other ministries learned to avoid any talk about race or justice. Calvin University history professor Kristin Kobes Du Mez joins Skye Jethani to discuss her bestselling book, “Jesus & John Wayne.” In this episode, they examine why white evangelicalism left behind some of its militant rhetoric after the Cold War ended in the early 1990s to embrace a kinder, gentler approach epitomized by the Promise Keepers movement, and how an aggressive vision of Christian masculinity returned after September 11, 2001.