But maybe part of me also felt a little jaded on the topics involved. I definitely believed everyone that the book was awesome (which it totally is). I’m not totally sure why it took me a minute. It’s one of those books people kept recommending to me for a while before I actually got around to reading it. Kristin Kobes Du Mez’s book Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation (Liveright, 2021) is an extensively-researched deep dive into the intersections of patriarchy, militarism, toxic masculinity, violence, Christianity, many decades of US politics, and basically all the things. But if you want to call these “zero chill book reviews,” that’s cool too.)Īnyhow. (Some might ask, does it still count as “super chill” once it gets to be this long? To which I would say, the chill factor isn’t about length so much as style-these aren’t really book reviews so much as just collections of quotes that stood out to me and things the book made me think about. Well, this is looking to be another two-part super chill book review…
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