We now come to Part 8 of my book analysis of Kristin Kobes Du Mez’s book, Jesus and John Wayne. In this post, I will look at chapter 14, which looks at the Evangelicals in the Obama and years. Chapter 14: Spiritual Bad Asses—Summary and Response Obama and Jeremiah WrightIn this chapter, Kobes Du Mez…
Here in Part 7 of my detailed book analysis of Kristin Kobes Du Mez’s book, Jesus and John Wayne, I will look at chapters 11-13. In this post, my response will be alongside my summary of each chapter. Chapter 11: Holy Balls—Summary and ResponseIn chapter 11, KDM focuses on a number of movements and Evangelicals…
Here in Part 6 of my detailed book analysis of Kristin Kobes Du Mez’s book, Jesus and John Wayne, I will look at chapters 9-10. In this post, my response will be alongside my summary of each chapter. Chapter 9: Tender Warriors—Summary and Response Promise-Keepers: Soft PatriarchyIn chapter 9, KDM focuses on the Promise Keepers…
Here in Part 5 of my detailed book analysis of Kristin Kobes Du Mez’s book, Jesus and John Wayne, I will look at chapters 7-8. Again, my format will consist of a brief summary of a chapter, followed by my response to it. Let’s jump in… Chapter 7: The Greatest American Hero—SummaryIn this chapter, Kobes…
In this post within my book analysis series on Kristin Kobes Du Mez’s book Jesus and John Wayne, I’m going to be looking at chapters 5-6. Chapter 5, entitled, “Slaves and Soldiers,” focuses on the work of Tim LaHaye and Jerry Falwell, while chapter 6, entitled, “Going for the Jugular,” largely covers Evangelical support for…
Here in Part 3 of my analysis of Kristin Kobes Du Mez’s (KDM) book, Jesus and John Wayne, I am going to cover chapters 3-4 in her book. I’ve realized that to try to cover four chapters per post would mean extremely long posts, so I am going to cover two chapters per post. Again,…
Beginning here in Part 2 of my analysis of Kristin Kobes Du Mez’s book, Jesus and John Wayne, I want to do two things in every succeeding post of this series. First, I will give a very brief summary of each chapter in question in that particular post (I will try to cover 3-4 chapters…
A Bit of Background FirstI grew up within the Evangelical world of the 70-80s. In fact, I lived pretty much at the center of it, in Wheaton, Illinois. I grew up in an Evangelical family, went to an Assemblies of God/Evangelical church, and attended Wheaton Christian High School. During the summer after my junior year…
Well, I wrote “Heresy of Ham” five years ago, and I’m glad to see people still want to discuss it. Below is a recent interview I did for “Sparrow’s Call”–Voices in the Wilderness. And here is a link to my book, “The Heresy of Ham.” And if you want to see other books and translations…
On Good Friday, Major League Baseball announced they were moving the All-Star game this year away from Atlanta to boycott Georgia and to protest over Georgia’s new voting laws, which many Democrats claimed were racist and which Joe Biden himself said was “Jim Crow on steroids,” even calling it, “Jim Eagle.” I’ll be honest, that…