![]() ![]() ![]() And yet, we from the JM gradually succumbed to the white Evangelical industrial complex so completely that some of the leaders of the free spirit of the JM are now fully on board with The Former Guy, serving as his loyal allies in church meetings as easily as in political events. Now, the JM was not the genesis of this state of white Evangelicalism in fact, to my experience, much of the JM was orthogonal to the beliefs and practices of the white Evangelical world. I got adopted into the Beloved Community in the late 1960s in the “Jesus Movement” (JM) in Southern California, and many of the people mentioned in this book are familiar to me not only because I know their names but also because I was a recipient of their teaching and ministries. I was raised in the milieu that Du Mez talks about. That’s the summation after reading this masterful, wonderfully researched book about the peculiarities of white Evangelicalism and the Americanized Jesus who was once Brown and poor and despised, the victim of the oppressive empire, but who has been transformed into the muscular, gun-toting, migrant-hating, welfare-despising, violence-loving, manly man-centered white male gonzo who seeks to rule everyone by force for their own good and for the pleasure and power of white men.
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