


I grew up in the thick of mid-to-late 20th century white American evangelicalism-as a boy and young man. Here I will respond to only one part of Du Mez’s responses to the interviewer’s questions.ĭu Mez claims that the white American evangelicalism of the 1940s through the end of the 20th century thrived on a vision of male sexual dominance over women that excused distorted and abusive masculine sexuality and blamed women for their experiences of sexual and other abuse at the hands of evangelical men. However, I have watched the following Youtube interview with Du Mez: “Kristen Du Mez: How Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith | Amanpour and Company.” I admit that I have not yet read Kristen Du Mez’s book “Jesus and John Wayne.” I plan to.
