Jesus And John Wayne
a collage featuring Du Mez, a white woman with blond-brown hair wearing glasses, a red blouse and dark blue sweater; the cover of Jesus and John Wayne is a deep-bluish-purple color with orange text and features a pair of golden pistols in front of a white Christian cross
Portrait by Deborah K. Hoag / W.W. Norton & Company

‘Jesus and John Wayne’ author Kristin Du Mez on how white evangelicals came to embrace Donald Trump

How did Evangelical Christians come to not only vote for Donald Trump, but embrace him as a heroic figure? Historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez says it was a long time in coming, and that Trump is not a betrayal of evangelical values, but a fulfilment of them. We’ll talk with Du Mez ahead of delivering the annual Thulin Lecture this week in Urbana.

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