Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith & Fractured a NationJesus and John Wayne is a sweeping account of the last seventy five years of white evangelicalism, showing how American evangelicals have worked for decades to replace the Jesus of the Gospels with an idol of rugged masculinity and Christian nationalism. As Du Mez explains, the key to understanding this transformation is to recognize the role of culture in modern American evangelicalism.