He feels the conflicting demands to be forgiving and combative, gentle and strong. The narrator in the song recalls trying to please both his gentle Christian mother and his tough-guy father. Her book - Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation - which explores the past and present of Christian manhood, takes its title from a Christian song by the Gaither Vocal Band called "Jesus and John Wayne." It even affects why so many white evangelicals voted for Donald Trump. It influences how millions of Americans shape their lives and their politics. The scholar Kristin Kobes Du Mez says the answer matters a lot. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation, by Kristin Kobes Du Mez (Liveright)
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